README.md

   1 # thingy_grabber
   2 Script for archiving thingiverse things. Due to this being a glorified webscraper, it's going to be very fragile.
   3
   4 ## Usage:
   5 `thingy_grabber.py user_name collection_name`
   6
   7 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.
   8
   9 This will create a series of directorys `user-collection/thing-name` for each thing in the collection.
  10 If a thing's directory already exists, it will be skipped.
  11
  12 If for some reason a download fails, it will get moved sideways to `thing-name-failed` - this way if you rerun it, it will only reattmpt any failed things.
  13
  14 ## Requirements
  15 python3, beautifulsoup4, requests, lxml
  16
  17 ## Current features:
  18 - can download an entire collection, creating seperate subdirs for each thing in the collection
  19
  20 ## Todo features:
  21 - download a single thing
  22 - download things by designer
  23 - less perfunctory error checking / handling
  24 - attempt to use -failed dirs for resuming
  25 - detect updated models and redownload them