Python script to download all your dailyview.com (aka bilddagboken.se) images.

download.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

"""
    Python script to download all your dailyview.com images.
    
    Names them after what date they belong to, + random string to avoid name collisions. 

    Run with 'python download.py'
    Depends on requests and Beautiful soup
"""

from requests import get
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer
from time import sleep
import re, datetime, hashlib, os


date_pattern = re.compile("^\S+\s(\d+)\s(\S+)\s(\d{4})\s.+$")
#months = ['januari','februari','mars','april','maj','juni','juli','augusti','september','oktober','november','december']
months = [datetime.date(2000, m, 1).strftime('%B').lower() for m in range(1, 13)]


def download():
    url = ''#put url to latest image here i.e. "http://dayviews.com/username/11111137/"


    i = 0
    while True:
        print 'Get page %s' % url
        r = get(url).content
        soup = BeautifulSoup(r)
        date = soup.find(id='showContentTitle').string
#        print date
        matches = date_pattern.match(date).groups() # ('5', 'februari', '2006')

        # Mongle date format.
        month = months.index(matches[1].lower()) + 1
        month = '0'+str(month) if len(str(month))==1 else str(month)
        day = matches[0] if len(matches[0])==2 else '0'+matches[0]
        date_string = '%s-%s-%s' % (matches[2], month, day)

        for img in soup.findAll('img', id="picture"):
            src = img['src']
            fname = './images/%s_(%s)_%s' % (date_string, hashlib.sha1(os.urandom(1024)).hexdigest()[0:10], src[src.rfind('/')+1:] )
            print "Downloading %s --> %s" % (src, fname)

            f = open( fname, 'wb')
            r = get(src)
            for chunk in r.iter_content():
                f.write(chunk)

        # Save next image link
        last_url = url
        for link in soup.findAll('a', rel=u"fancyImgGrp"):
            url = link["href"]
        # If they are stil the same, exit
        if last_url == url:
            print "Done \r"
            exit()
        i += 1
        sleep(1) # be nice to server

if __name__ == '__main__':
    download()