Have you downloaded a bunch of webm and gif files from gfycat and just realized they store their own mp4 encoded files as well?
This tool scrapes your local directory, makes a list of seemingly gfycraps, fetches gfycat servers to see if the file still exist and hasn't been removed, downloads the correponding mp4 into a directory with the same name as the gfycrap.
To put it simply:
- Lists all files on local disk that matches gfycat naming scheme via regexp (three words, each with first letter capitalized "AbAbAb.[webm|gif|mp4]")
- Fetches corresponding mp4 file URL on gfycat servers
- Downloads the file to disk according to the directory layout of local files
tqdm python lib for progress bar (pip install tqdm) [optional] diffmerge for checking regexp'ed scraped files retained (otherwise will use diff) [optional] vim or any text editor to edit download queue if needed [optional] https://github.com/andrewleech/fdb_embedded to check against VVV's databases [optional]
gfyfetch.py [DIR|TXT] gfyfetch.py --help
where DIR is an absolute path to directories holding your gfycraps or TXT is an absolute path to a text file listing paths to gfycraps (the script generates such files to resume operations at a later time if needed)
Ugly code in places, sorry I'm still learning. Only tested on (Arch) Linux, probably works on other OS.