Gabber

Simple tool to pull posts and users from Gab.

Usage

Usage: gabber [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --user TEXT        Username to gab.com account. Required to pull posts. If
                     unspecified, uses GAB_USER environment variable.
  --password TEXT    Password to gab.com account. Required to pull posts. If
                     unspecified, uses GAB_PASS environment variable.
  --threads INTEGER  Number of threads to use in the pull (if unspecified,
                     defaults to 25).
  --help             Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  groups  Pull groups and (optionally) their posts from Gab.
  posts   Pull users and (optionally) posts from Gab.

`posts`

Usage: gabber posts [OPTIONS]

  Pull users and (optionally) posts from Gab.

Options:
  --users-file TEXT              Where to output the user file to.
  --posts-file TEXT              Where to output the posts file to.
  --first INTEGER                The first user ID to pull.
  --last INTEGER                 The last user ID to pull.
  --created-after FROMISOFORMAT  Only pull posts created on or after the
                                 specified date, e.g. 2021-10-02 (defaults to
                                 none).
  --posts / --no-posts           Pull posts (WIP; defaults to no posts).
  --replies / --no-replies       Include replies when pulling posts (defaults
                                 to no replies)
  --help                         Show this message and exit.

`groups`

Usage: gabber groups [OPTIONS]

  Pull groups and (optionally) their posts from Gab.

Options:
  --groups-file TEXT    Where to output the groups file to.
  --posts-file TEXT     Where to output the posts file to.
  --first INTEGER       The first group ID to pull.
  --last INTEGER        The last group ID to pull.
  --posts / --no-posts  Pull posts.
  --help                Show this message and exit.

Environment Variables

HTTP_PROXY — route all traffic through this HTTP proxy (highly recommended given Gab's rate limiting)
HTTPS_PROXY — route all traffic through this HTTPS proxy (highly recommended given Gab's rate limiting)

Development

To run Gabber in a development environment, you'll need Poetry. Install the dependencies by running poetry install, and then you're all set to work on Gabber locally.

To access the CLI, run poetry run gabber.

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