Thingiscrape
Thingiverse REST API python wrapper
About
A python based Thingiverse.com object scraper and downloader. The program can search of objects using keywords, licenses, users, categories and then sort the results, for example returning the most popular or newest uploads.
Getting Started
First you need to install the requirements - there are not that many 😊.
pip install -r requirements.txt
You need to add an environment variable containing the Thingiscrape applications API token. Contact @dougbrion dajb3@cam.ac.uk to get the token or create your own Thingiverse application by visiting the following site: https://www.thingiverse.com/apps
export API_TOKEN "<your-api-token>"
Usage
To see the various options available to you type the following into your terminal.
python thingiscrape.py --help
Example usage:
python thingiscrape.py --search "yoda" --popular 1 --pages 2 --license "cc"
STL 3D model files will be downloaded to ./downloads/stls/ along with a json file containing the results from the request in ./downloads/json/.