export_things.py

Script that simplifies exporting all your stuff out of Thingiverse
It creates a Git-compatible directory with a list and folders. Each folder contains all the files, images and description for each design.
Free your things! Au revoir Thingiverse!

Example of the result: https://github.com/carlosgs/carlosgs-designs

Disclaimer

Not associated with Thingiverse, use at your own risk

Instructions

• Optional: Create an empty Git repository, clone the repo locally
• Download the python script as raw into the created empty directory
• Edit lines 17-19 for user, authorName, and authorDescription
• Install PIP (sudo apt-get install python-pip)
• Install requests (sudo pip install requests)
• Install beautifulsoup (sudo pip install beautifulsoup) not BeautifulSoup4
• Run the script from the same directory (python export_things.py)
• Optional: Commit and push the changes into your Git repository

You can also browse the generated directories offline, by simply using a Markdown viewer (i.e. MarkdownPreview for Chrome)

New

• Added another script that allows fetching a single design. Run as:

export_one_thing.py thingID

• It will create a directory with the title of the design and all the necessary files.

Features

• Select which page to download (save your liked things too!)
• Files can be downloaded OR linked from the original website to save disk space
• Customize authorship
• Customize the header for the pages
• Select if files will be re-downloaded if already present
• Select if things will be re-processed if the folder is already present (to save time when re-running for long lists)

Credit

• Thanks to everyone who is re-sharing the script
• Thanks to Derrick Oswald for writing installation instructions
• Thanks to Mark Durbin (MakeALot) for a bugfix

Author: Carlos Garcia Saura (carlosgs)

License

Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike license.