4.6 KiB
Social networks crawler
A program to download photo and video from Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
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What can program do:
- Download pictures and videos from users' profiles and subreddits:
- Reddit images;
- Reddit galleries of images;
- Redgifs hosted videos (https://www.redgifs.com/);
- Reddit hosted videos (downloading Reddit hosted video is going through ffmpeg (ffmpeg only works with the x64 program));
- Twitter images and videos;
- Instagram images and videos.
- Parse channel and view data.
- Download saved Reddit and Instagram posts.
- Add users from parsed channel.
- Labeling users.
- Filter exists users by label or group.
- Selection of media types you want to download (images only, videos only, both)
Supported sites
- RedGifs
- Imgur
How does it works:
First, the program downloads the full profile. After the program downloads only new posts. The program remembers downloaded posts.
The program parses all user posts, obtain MD5 images hash and compares them with existing ones to remove duplicates. Then the media will be downloaded.
Other sites
The program parses all user posts and compares file names with existing ones to remove duplicates. Then the media will be downloaded.
You can read about Instagram restrictions here
How to request a new site
Read here about
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)
- Authorization cookies Instagram (if you want to download data from Instagram)
- ffmpeg library for downloading videos hosted on Reddit (you can download it from the official repo or from my first release). ffmpeg only works with the x64 version of the program.
- Don't put program in the
Program Filessystem folder (this is portable program and program settings are stored in the program folder) - Just unzip the program archive to any folder, copy the file
ffmpeg.exeinto it and enjoy. :)
How to build from source
- Delete the "PersonalUtilities" project from the solution.
- Add the latest version of the "PersonalUtilities.dll" library (from the latest release).
- Import PersonalUtilities.Functions for the whole project.
Updating
Just download latest version and unpack it into the program folder. Before starting a new version, I recommend making a backup copy of the program settings folder.
Settings and usage
The program has an intuitive interface.
Just add a user profile and click the Start downloading button.
You can add users by patterns:
- https://www.instagram.com/SomeUserName
- https://twitter.com/SomeUserName
- https://reddit.com/user/SomeUserName
- https://reddit.com/r/SomeSubredditName
- https://www.redgifs.com/users/SomeUserName
- u/SomeUserName
- r/SomeSubredditName
- SomeUserName (in this case, you need to select the user's site)
- SomeSubredditName
Read more about adding users and subreddits here
Guide
Full guide you can find here
Using program as just video downloader
Create a shortcut for the program. Open shortcut properties. In the Shortcut tab, in the Target field, just add the letter v at the end across the space.
Example: D:\Programs\SCrawler\SCrawler.exe v
