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4f6e317c | 1 | # thingy_grabber |
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2 | Script for archiving thingiverse things. Due to this being a glorified webscraper, it's going to be very fragile. |
3 | ||
4 | ## Usage: | |
4a98996b | 5 | ```` |
1ab49020 | 6 | usage: thingy_grabber.py [-h] [-l {debug,info,warning}] [-d DIRECTORY] {collection,thing,user,batch,version} ... |
a7152c35 | 7 | |
4a98996b | 8 | positional arguments: |
1ab49020 | 9 | {collection,thing,user,batch,version} |
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10 | Type of thing to download |
11 | collection Download an entire collection | |
12 | thing Download a single thing. | |
13 | user Download all things by a user | |
1ab49020 | 14 | batch Perform multiple actions written in a text file |
db8066ec | 15 | version Show the current version |
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16 | |
17 | optional arguments: | |
3522a3bf | 18 | -h, --help show this help message and exit |
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19 | -l {debug,info,warning}, --log-level {debug,info,warning} |
20 | level of logging desired | |
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21 | -d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY |
22 | Target directory to download into | |
4a98996b | 23 | ```` |
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25 | ### Things |
26 | `thingy_grabber.py thing thingid` | |
27 | This will create a directory named after the title of the thing with the given ID and download the files into it. | |
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4a98996b | 29 | ### Collections |
3522a3bf | 30 | `thingy_grabber.py collection user_name collection_name` |
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31 | 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. |
32 | ||
a7152c35 | 33 | This will create a series of directorys `user-collection/thing-name` for each thing in the collection. |
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34 | |
35 | 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. | |
36 | ||
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37 | ### User designs |
38 | `thingy_grabber.py user_name` | |
39 | Where `user_name` is the name of a creator. | |
40 | ||
41 | This will create a series of directories `user designs/thing-name` for each thing that user has designed. | |
42 | ||
43 | 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. | |
44 | ||
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45 | ### Batch mode |
46 | `thingy_grabber.py batch batch_file` | |
47 | This will load a given text file and parse it as a series of calls to this script. The script should be of the form `command arg1 ...`. | |
48 | Be warned that there is currently NO validation that you have given a correct set of commands! | |
49 | ||
50 | An example: | |
51 | ```` | |
52 | thing 3670144 | |
53 | collection cwoac bike | |
54 | user cwoac | |
55 | ```` | |
56 | ||
57 | If you are using linux, you can just add an appropriate call to the crontab. If you are using windows, it's a bit more of a faff, but at least according to [https://www.technipages.com/scheduled-task-windows](this link), you should be able to with a command something like this (this is not tested!): `schtasks /create /tn thingy_grabber /tr "c:\path\to\thingy_grabber.py -d c:\path\to\output\directory batch c:\path\to\batchfile.txt" /sc weekly /d wed /st 13:00:00` | |
58 | You may have to play with the quotation marks to make that work though. | |
59 | ||
975060c9 | 60 | ## Requirements |
c4388960 | 61 | python3, beautifulsoup4, requests, lxml |
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62 | |
63 | ## Current features: | |
64 | - can download an entire collection, creating seperate subdirs for each thing in the collection | |
e36c2a07 | 65 | - If you run it again with the same settings, it will check for updated files and only update what has changed. This should make it suitible for syncing a collection on a cronjob |
3c82f75b | 66 | - If there is an updated file, the old directory will be moved to `name_timestamp` where `timestamp` is the last upload time of the old files. The code will then copy unchanged files across and download any new ones. |
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680039fe | 68 | ## Changelog |
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69 | * v0.5.0 |
70 | - better logging options | |
1ab49020 | 71 | - batch mode |
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72 | * v0.4.0 |
73 | - Added a changelog | |
74 | - Now download associated images | |
75 | - support `-d` to specify base download directory | |
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76 | |
77 | ## Todo features (maybe): | |
1ab49020 | 78 | - log to file support |
975060c9 | 79 | - less perfunctory error checking / handling |
a7152c35 | 80 | - attempt to use -failed dirs for resuming |
1ab49020 | 81 | - gui? |
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