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redgifs

Async and Sync Python Wrapper for the RedGIFs API.


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Installation

pip install -U redgifs

Development version

pip install -U git+https://github.com/scrazzz/redgifs

redgifs works on Python versions 3.8 and above.


Quickstart

1. Command Line:

Install: pip install redgifs[cli]

$ redgifs --help
Usage: redgifs [OPTIONS] [URLS]...

Options:
  -q, --quality [sd|hd]  Video quality of GIF to download.  [default: hd]
  -d, --dir FOLDER_NAME  The folder/directory to save the downloads to.
  -i, --input PATH       Download URLs from a newline seperated txt file.
  --help                 Show this message and exit.

Examples:

$ # Download files to a folder
$ ls
Home    Downloads  Homework  Music
Backup  Documents  Videos    Games
$ redgifs https://redgifs.com/watch/xyz --q sd --dir Homework
Downloading xyz...
Download complete
$ ls Homework
xyz.mp4
$ # Download GIFs from a file that contains a list of URLs
$
$ # urls.txt:
$ # https://redigfs.com/watch/xyz
$ # https://redigfs.com/watch/qwe
$ # https://redigfs.com/watch/abc
$ # https://redigfs.com/watch/rst

$ redgifs -i urls.txt
Downloading xyz...
Download complete
Downloading qwe...
$ # Download all GIFs from a user's profile
$ mkdir rg_vids
$ redgifs https://redgifs.com/users/usernamethatexists -d rg_vids
Downloaded 1/3 GIFs
Downloaded 2/3 GIFs
Downloaded 3/3 GIFs

Downloaded 3/3 videos of "usernamethatexists" to rg_vids folder sucessfully

2. Synchronous usage:

import redgifs

api = redgifs.API()
api.login() # Login with temporary token
response = api.search('3D')
print(response)
api.close()

3. Asynchronous usage:

import asyncio
from redgifs.aio import API # note this

async def main():
    api = API()
    await api.login() # Login with temporary token
    response = await api.search('3D')
    print(response)
    await api.close()

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

More examples can be found in the examples directory.


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