Proof of concept

icons8fetch.py

# Icons8 fetcher
import json
import urllib.request
import os
import sys
import argparse
import re

apihome = "https://api.icons8.com/api/iconsets/v3/search"

def main():
    samount = 100 # Default amount of icons to return
    namount = 1 # Default max number of icons to download
    DESCRIPTION = '''Fetch the SVGs for icons from Icons8. Files will output to the current directory. Please don't exploit usage of this program :('''
    QUERY_HELP = '''Search term'''
    ID_HELP = '''Icon ID to filter'''
    MAX_HELP = '''Max amount of icons to download. Default: ''' + str(namount)
    PACK_HELP = '''Icon pack to filter. Options: win10, win8, ios7, androidL, android, color'''
    AMOUNT_HELP = '''Limit number of icons in search. Default: ''' + str(samount)
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description = DESCRIPTION)
    parser.add_argument('-q','--query', dest = 'query', help = QUERY_HELP, required=True)
    parser.add_argument('-p','--pack', dest = 'pack', help = PACK_HELP)
    parser.add_argument('-a','--amount', dest = 'amount', help = AMOUNT_HELP)
    parser.add_argument('-m','--max', dest = 'max', help = MAX_HELP)
    parser.add_argument('-i','--id', dest = 'id', help = ID_HELP)
    options = parser.parse_args()
    if options.amount is not None:
        samount = options.amount
    if options.max is not None:
        namount = options.max
    
    request = urllib.request.urlopen(apihome + "?term={}&amount={}&offset=0&language=en-US".format(options.query, samount)).read().decode('utf-8')
    response = json.loads(request)
    iterator = 1
    for icon in response["result"]["search"]:
        if options.pack is not None:
            if icon["platform_code"] != options.pack:
                continue
        if options.id is not None:
            if icon["id"] != options.id:
                continue
        svg_file = open("{}_{}.svg".format(icon["name"],icon["id"]), "w")
        svg_file.write(icon["svg"].replace('\n', ''))
        svg_file.close()
        iterator += 1
        if iterator >= namount:
            break
    if iterator == 0:
        print("Nothing found")

if __name__ == '__main__':
  sys.exit(main())