shlabber.py - Archives a soup

Schlabbern is like auslöffeln, only much more messy

Features

• Works with endless scroll
• Saves more than images
• Preserves some metadata
• If your soup shows timestamps, they will be used to sort the backup

Dependencies

• beautifulsoup4 (bs4)
• requests

Use

Basic usage:

./schlabber <name of soup>

If invoked without any parameters, the programm will asume the output direcory for all files is the working directory. To choose an alternative output diectory supply -d <path> to the application

For more options:

./schlabber -h

Contiune Backup

Sometimes Soup.io failes to fetch more Posts. In this case the script will stop. Just run the script again, but this time with the -c switch. Look at your previous run. There is a line telling you "Get: ..." Just use everything from /since/ till the line end as parameter for -c and the script should continue where it has left off.

The same URL can be found in any *.json file in the meta directory. Its key is 'soup_page'.

Alternatives

If this script does not work for you there are others you can try:

• https://github.com/neingeist/soup-backup
• https://github.com/rixx/ripsoup