Download brightwheel activity feed metadata and media about your children.
Create virtual env and install requirements.
$ python -m venv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ (env) pip install -r requirements.txt
Install exiftool via your favourite package manager. See exif_notes for details about why. If you don't want to set exif data, use the -s flag when downloading media.
Authenticate with API and download metadata into sqlite database.
usage: download.py metadata [-h] --login LOGIN --student STUDENT [--start-date START_DATE] [--end-date END_DATE] [-n] [-l] [-f]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--login LOGIN guardian login to API (default: None)
--student STUDENT student name substring to select (default: None)
--start-date START_DATE
UTC start date window to query YYYY-MM-DD default: today (default: None)
--end-date END_DATE UTC end date window to query YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive) (default: None)
-n do not allow interactive login (default: False)
-l ignore stored auth (default: False)
-f clear all data for student before saving again (default: False)
Process previously downloaded activities from sqlite database.
Currently, downloading images in the only feature.
💡 Date created exif data compatible with Google Photos automatically added.
usage: download.py media [-h] [--dl-dir DL_DIR] [-s] [-f] [--lat LAT] [--lon LON]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--dl-dir DL_DIR directory to download media into (default: /home/pi/projects/brightwheel-downloader/media)
-s skip setting exif tags via exiftool (default: False)
-f download even if file already exists (default: False)
--lat LAT Latitude metadata to add, used for timezone offsetting (default: None)
--lon LON Longitude metadata to add, used for timezone offsetting (default: None)
💡 Google Photos for Android mixes all your albums together and ignores timezone data. Set --lat and --lon to set timezone.