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cwoac / thingy_grabber

Script for archiving thingiverse things
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Store JSON for things, collections, and user designs #22

Open unknownlamer opened 3 years ago

unknownlamer commented 3 years ago

Greetings,

I am looking at offline archiving my collections and designs from thingiverse, juuust in case, given its current state. To this end, I've started adding basic support for dumping the raw JSON details for things, collections, and the list of user designs. My hope is that sometime down the line this can be used by an importer to mediagoblin or something similar, or otherwise post-processed.

For now, it just unconditionally dumps the JSON (and doesn't do any checks for API errors to make sure it's actually returning the requested information), and dumps to "thing:$id.json", "collection:$id.json", or "designs:$username.json" mirroring how thingiverse labels them.

If this looks OK as a first pass, I was going to add some error checking code in the Grouping. If this looks OK generally, do you think it should be controlled with an argument? something like "--dump-json={all,designs,thing,collection}" maybe.

JaneSmith commented 2 years ago

This is a great idea. I'm not part of this project, but I've tried your changes in my own local copy and it works great. Thanks.

cwoac commented 2 years ago

Media goblin hosting is an interesting idea indeed. I'll take a look at this, thanks.