2 Script for archiving thingiverse things. Due to this being a glorified webscraper, it's going to be very fragile.
6 usage: thingy_grabber.py [-h] [-l {debug,info,warning}] [-d DIRECTORY] {collection,thing,user,batch,version} ...
9 {collection,thing,user,batch,version}
10 Type of thing to download
11 collection Download one or more entire collection(s)
12 thing Download a single thing.
13 user Download all things by one or more users
14 batch Perform multiple actions written in a text file
15 version Show the current version
18 -h, --help show this help message and exit
19 -l {debug,info,warning}, --log-level {debug,info,warning}
20 level of logging desired
21 -d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
22 Target directory to download into
26 `thingy_grabber.py thing thingid1 thingid2 ...`
27 This will create a directory named after the title of the thing(s) with the given ID(s) and download the files into it.
30 `thingy_grabber.py collection user_name collection_name1 collection_name2`
31 Where `user_name` is the name of the creator of the collection (not nes. your name!) and `collection_name1...etc` are the name(s) of the collection(s) you want.
33 This will create a series of directorys `user-collection/thing-name` for each thing in the collection.
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.
38 `thingy_grabber.py user user_name1, user_name2..`
39 Where `user_name1.. ` are the names of creator.
41 This will create a series of directories `user designs/thing-name` for each thing that user has designed.
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.
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!
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.
61 `thingy_grabber.py collection cwoac bike`
62 Download the collection 'bike' by the user 'cwoac'
63 `thingy_grabber.py -d downloads -l warning thing 1234 4321 1232`
64 Download the three things 1234, 4321 and 1232 into the directory downloads. Only give warnings.
65 `thingy_grabber.py -d c:\downloads -l debug user jim bob`
66 Download all designs by jim and bob into directories under `c:\downloads`, give lots of debug messages
70 python3, beautifulsoup4, requests, lxml
73 - can download an entire collection, creating seperate subdirs for each thing in the collection
74 - 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
75 - 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.
79 - added support for downloading multiple things/design sets/collections from the command line
81 - better logging options
85 - Now download associated images
86 - support `-d` to specify base download directory
88 ## Todo features (maybe):
90 - less perfunctory error checking / handling
91 - attempt to use -failed dirs for resuming