weiboPicDownloader (fork)

中文 README

Weibo media batch downloader

Forked from https://github.com/nondanee/weiboPicDownloader

Major improvements:

• Now can download posts with more than 9 pictures.
• Now can download HD videos.
• Cleanup text from the Weibo text content when used in name template.
• Refactored as a module for easier incorporating into other Python scripts/projects. It now returns a list of dict to show some stats from the download session too.
• Various bug fixes.

Breaking changes:

• Dropped Python 2 support (only tested with 3.8, but should work with some earlier versions too)
• -b (boundary) now is NON-inclusive on the left-side (earlier date). This is done to make it easier to update (so you can use -b last_checked_bid: to only download new posts without overlapping). -b with a specific mid/bid (instead of a range) would still download (always and only) that specific single post.

Aknowledgements

• nondanee/weiboPicDownloader (original repo, no longer maintained)
  • yAnXImIN/weiboPicDownloader
  • ningshu/weiboPicDownloader

for more info about Weibo's APIs, check original repo's wiki

Dependencies

$ pip install requests
$ pip install colorama # only windows version under 10.0.14393 required

Usage

$ python .\weiboPicDownloader.py -h
usage: weiboPicDownloader [-h] (-u user [user ...] | -f file [file ...])
                          [-d directory] [-s size] [-r retry] [-i interval]
                          [-c cookie] [-b boundary] [-n name] [-v] [-o]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  -u user [user ...]  specify nickname or id of weibo users
  -f file [file ...]  import list of users from files
  -d directory        set picture saving path
  -s size             set size of thread pool
  -r retry            set maximum number of retries
  -i interval         set interval for feed requests
  -c cookie           set cookie if needed
  -b boundary         focus on weibos in the id range
  -n name             customize naming format
  -v                  download videos together
  -o                  overwrite existing files

Required argument (choose one)

• -u user ... users (nickname or id)
• -f file ... user list files (nickname or id, separated by linefeed in the file)

Optional arguments

• -d directory media saving path (default value: ./weiboPic)
• -s size thread pool size (default value: 20)
• -r retry max retries (default value: 2)
• -i interval request interval (default value: 1, unit: second)
• -c cookie login credential (only need the value of a certain key named SUB)
• -b boundary mid/bid/date range of weibos (format: id:id between, :id before, id: after, id certain, : all). Use @%Y%m%d (like @20220520) for date; otherwise integers would be considered as mid.
• -n name naming template (identifier: url, index, type, mid, bid, date, text, name, uid, like "f-Strings" syntax)
• -v download miaopai videos at the same time
• -o overwrite existing files (skipping if exists for default)

How to get the value of SUB from browser (Chrome for example)

1. Go to https://m.weibo.cn and log in
2. Inspect > Application > Cookies > https://m.weibo.cn
3. Double click the SUB line and copy its value
4. Paste it into terminal and run like -c <value>