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1 # thingy_grabber
2 Script for archiving thingiverse things. Due to this being a glorified webscraper, it's going to be very fragile.
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4 ## Usage:
5 `thingy_grabber.py user_name collection_name`
6 Where `user_name` is the name of the creator of the collection (not nes. your name!) and `collection_name` is the name of the collection you want.
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8 ## Requirements
9 python3, beautifulsoup4, requests, lxml
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11 ## Current features:
12 - can download an entire collection, creating seperate subdirs for each thing in the collection
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14 ## Todo features:
15 - download a single thing
16 - download things by designer
17 - less perfunctory error checking / handling
18 - resume failed things