Media Scraper
media-scraper scrapes all photos and videos in a web page.
It supports general-purpose scraping as well as SNS-specific scraping.
media-scraper utilizes the web driver to simulate a user browsing web pages.
With the web driver, sessions and cookies easily can be handled easily but it works slightly slowly.
On the other hand, I'm currently working on the migration of another repository,
which crawls media only by HTTP requests, to this repository. See here.
General-purpose Scraping
The general media scraper scrapes and downloads all photos and videos
in all links <a/>, images <img/> and videos <video/> of a web page.
SNS-specific
Currently there are Instagram scraper and Twitter scraper, which crawl all posts of a given user and download media in a proper way for each SNS.
Updates
Current, media-scraper is merged to contain two methods of scraping: by request and by browser.
Usage
python3 m-scraper.py rq instagram [USERNAME1 USERNAME2 ...] [-e] [-s SAVE_PATH] [-c CRED_FILE]
python3 m-scraper.py rq tumblr [SITE1 SITE2 ...] [-e] [-s SAVE_PATH] [-c CRED_FILE]
python3 m-scraper.py rq reddit [SUBREDDIT1 SUBREDDIT2 ...] [-e] [-s SAVE_PATH] [-c CRED_FILE]
python3 m-scraper.py rq pixiv [USERID1 USERID2 ...] [-e] [-s SAVE_PATH] [-c CRED_FILE]
python3 m-scraper.py rq tiktok [USERID1 USERID2 ...] [-e] [-s SAVE_PATH] [-c CRED_FILE]If you'd like to download with your own credentials, i.e. logging in your account, please put your username and password in credentials.json and run m-scraper.py with -c credentials.json.
mv ./credentials.json.example ./credentials.json
vim ./credentials.jsonNote that pixiv requires a user login to view all illustrations and mangas. If you scrape pixiv without logging in, you'll get only some of them.
For scraping TikTok videos, you'll need to get the user id first. Go to the user page in your TikTok App, share it via link, paste it in a browser, and you'll see the user id in the url bar. E.g. user id of TikTok is 107955. However, m-scraper here fetch video list via TikTok shared content, it contains most of the videos but not all of them. I'll dig into the mobile App API in the future.
Installation
Clone the media-scraper git repository.
git clone https://github.com/elvisyjlin/media-scraper.git
cd media-scraperInstall Python 3 (at least 3.5) and get all dependencies.
pip3 install -r requirements.txtWeb Driver
media-scraper loads the content of a web page by web driver (PhantomJS).
The needed web driver will be downloaded automatically when it is used.
If you meet permission error, for example,
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'phantomjs' executable may have wrong permissions.Please set the web driver to 777 for convenience.
chmod 777 webdriver/phantomjsdriver_2.1.1_win32/phantomjs.exe
chmod 777 webdriver/phantomjsdriver_2.1.1_mac64/phantomjs
chmod 777 webdriver/phantomjsdriver_2.1.1_linux64/phantomjsTo Scrape
python3 -m mediascraper.general [WEB PAGE 1] [WEB PAGE 2] ...The media will be stored in the folder download/general.
python3 -m mediascraper.instagram [USER NAME 1] [USER NAME 2] ...The media will be stored in the folder download/instagram.
python3 -m mediascraper.twitter [USER NAME 1] [USER NAME 2] ...The media will be stored in the folder download/twitter.
For example, to scrape Twitter
python3 -m mediascraper.twitter TwitterLogin with Credentials
If you want to scrape a user's media with your account,
just rename credentials.json.example to credentials.json and fill in your username and password.
To Import
It is easy to import media-scraper into your scripts and make use of it.
Please refer to the example code for more details.
Media Scraper
python3 -m mediascraper.general [URL1 URL2 ...]
python3 -m mediascraper.instagram [USERNAME1 USERNAME2 ...]
python3 -m mediascraper.twitter [USERNAME1 USERNAME2 ...]
Parameters of Scraper
| Parameter | Description | Default Value |
|---|---|---|
| scroll_pause | the pause interval when scrolling | 0.5 (seconds) |
| mode | 'silent', normal' or 'verbose' |
'normal' |
| debug | prints debugging messages if True |
False |
Connect Methods of Scraper
| Scraper | Methods |
|---|---|
| MediaScraper | connect(URL) |
| InstagramScraper | username(USERNAME) |
| TwitterScraper | username(USERNAME) |
Note
Instagram changed API 3 times this year (2018), so the query API in media-scraper is out-of-date.
Please see instagramer.py, which works well for downloading all media form Instagram.
The instruction is here.
Twitter [Solved]
For some reasons, Twitter utilizes blob url for videos, which is not supported by media-scraper currently.
I'm still working on this problem.
06/07/2018 Update: It supports downloading videos in Twitter now!