/vsco-scraper

Easily allows for scraping a VSCO

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VSCO Scraper

Allows for easy scraping of one VSCO at a time

Getting Started

Usage and installation of vsco-scraper

Prerequisites

Python 3 is required. Python 2 is not supported.

Installing

To install vsco-scraper:

 $ pip install vsco-scraper

To update vsco-scraper:

 $ pip install vsco-scraper --upgrade

Usage

To scrape a VSCO:

 $ vsco-scraper <username> --getImages

Images are downloaded into the <current directory/<username>

To scrape a user's journal on VSCO:

 $ vsco-scraper <username> --getJournal

Journal Images are downloaded into the <current directory>/<username>/journal/<journalname>

To scrape multiple VSCOs:

 $ vsco-scraper <filename-of-text-file> --multiple

*The scraper will read a text file, one username per line

To scrape multiple VSCOs and journals:

 $ vsco-scraper <filename-of-text-file> --all

*Same as above one username per line, but will also download journals if it finds them

Options

Option Secondary Options Description
--getImages -i Grabs all of the user's images
--getJournal -j Grab's all of the images in the user's journals, then seperates into seperate folders
--multiple -m Grab's multple user's images
--multipleJournal -mj Grab's multiple user's journals
--all -a Scrape multiple users journals and images, will download journal if they have one

Author

  • Mustafa Abdi - Initial work - mvabdi

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

  • instagram-scraper for inspiration