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+# Social networks crawler
+
+Program for downloading photo and video from Reddit and Twitter
+
+Enjoying the tool? Considering adding to my coffee fund :)
+
+[![ko-fi](https://www.ko-fi.com/img/githubbutton_sm.svg)](https://ko-fi.com/andyprogram)
+
+# What can program do:
+- Download pictures and videos from users' profiles:
+  - Reddit images;
+  - Reddit galleries of images;
+  - Redgifs hosted videos (https://www.redgifs.com/);
+  - Reddit hosted videos (downloading Reddit hosted video is going through ffmpeg);
+  - Twitter images;
+  - Twitter videos.
+- Parse channel and view data.
+- Add users from parsed channel.
+- Labeling users.
+- Filter exists users by label or group.
+
+# How does it works:
+
+## Reddit
+
+The program parsing all user's posts, gathering pictures' MD5 hash and compare with existing for remove duplicates. Then media will be downloaded.
+
+## Twitter
+
+The program parsing all user's posts and compare file names with existing for remove duplicates. Then media will be downloaded.
+
+# Requirements:
+
+- Windows 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 with NET Framework 4.6.1 or higher
+- Authorization cookies and tokens for Twitter (if you want to download data from Twitter)
+- Don't put program in the ```Program Files``` system folder (this is portable program and program settings are stored in the program folder)
+- Just unpack program archive in any folder you want, copy ```ffmpeg.exe``` into and enjoy. :-)
+
+# Settings and usage
+
+The program has an intuitive interface.
+
+Just add user profile and press ```Start downloading``` button.
+
+Users can be added by patterns:
+- https://twitter.com/SomeUserName
+- https://reddit.com/user/SomeUserName
+- u/SomeUserName
+- SomeUserName (in this case you must to choose user site)
+
+More about users adding here
+
+## Using program as just video downloader
+
+Create a shortcut for the program. Open shortcut properties. On the ```Shortcut``` tab in ```Target``` field just add ```v``` at the end through the space.
+
+Example: ```D:\Programs\SCrawler\SCrawler.exe v```