A library for automating several social media actions, such as posting, login, notifications etc. for multiple social media and scraping data from these social medias. API free (no official social media APIs used), front-end selinium based solutions only.
Will be uploaded to PyPI soon. Some versions will be uploaded to TestPyPI
20th Dec: YOU CAN NOW VIEW YOUR INSTAGRAM FEED ON THE TERMINAL NOW
NOTE: (only tested for linux till now)
USE CASE 1: Fetch profile of a twitter user
- Create twitter engine
from social_media.twitter.base import TwitterEngine
t = TwitterEngine(patience=10) # patience is in secondsor
from social_media.base import Engine
t = Engine.select('twitter', patience=10)- Login (optional)
t.login(read_from_env=True) # read from a .env fileor
t.login(username="username", email="[email protected]", contact="123456789", password="password")
"""pass the username, contact, email and password manually.
(at least one of username, email or contact number is needed)
password is required"""- Get the profile of the person
t.get_profile(username="@dannygonzalez") # I am truly greg (@ is optional, not really needed, also username should be exact)- Logout (optional)
t.logout() - Close the browser window
t.close(wait_for_input=False) # if wait_for_input is true then script will wait for the user to enter q to terminateUSE CASE 2: Download a yotube playlist ("Downloading VSauce's Mind Field series")
# example to download youtube playlists
from social_media.youtube.base import YouTubeEngine
y = YouTubeEngine() # init the engine object
y.login() # login to youtube account, needed if you want to add the playlist to your library
first_result = y.get_playlists('Mind Field') # search for playlist and get the first result
# first_result[0].add_playlist() optional step, if you want to add the playlist to your library
first_result[0].populate() # load video objects for all the contents of the playlist (can be skipped)
first_result[0].download() # download all videos in the playlist (internally populates the playlist if it is not populated)
y.logout() # logout from your youtube account
y.close()