OpenSCAD Spider Project
Inspired by the recent contributions of package manager(s) and related
discussions, I thought I'd write a simple downloader (intended to be like
the pip installer in python) that could serve as a quick fix before any
package manager becomes standardized or widely accepted.
The project OpenSCAD Spider is hosted on github
https://github.com/runsun/openscad_spider . It would most likely contain
only one python file. Currently only the README is done. Please give
comments, thx.
OpenSCAD_Spider
Download remote OpenSCAD files
A python script to download remote OpenSCAD files. The idea is similarto the
pip package installer in python.
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What openscad_spider.py does:
Create 2 folders in the ...OpenSCAD/libraries folder:
- spider_food* spider_food_store
Download OpenSCAD file(s) from one of SPIDER_WEBS. It is definedin a dict in
python and contains urls of remote sites:
SPIDER_WEBS={ 'github':'https://github.com'
,'thingiverse':'https://www.thingiverse.com' }
and is specified in a call to this file:
> python openscad_spider.py --web github
Additionally, libname must be specified, and optionally author:
> ... --libname <some_name> --author <author>
Consider: for github, use clone; for thingiverse: use unzip
Users can also specify a url not in SPIDER_WEBS:
> python openscad_spider.py --web http://a/b/c
which directly points to a .scad file.
In this case, libname and author are to be ignored.
When --web is not a direct url to a .scad file, this prog needsto srape
through the given webpage to dig out the direct download url.This can be
done with either python itself, or consider the otherwebpage scrapping tool
like BeautifulSoup or Scrapy.
The downloaded file(s) will be saved to
...OpenSCAD/libraries/spider_food
A new file, spider_template.scad, is created in the currentworking folder,
containing:
include <sider_food/<libname>>
Run spider_template.scad in OpenSCAD
Upon exist, ask users if this lib is to be kept. If yes, makea copy to
...OpenSCAD/libraries/spider_food_store
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Progress
20180313- Project plan outlined in README.md
$ Runsun Pan, PhD $ libs: scadx , doctest , faces ( git ), offline doc ( git ), runscad.py ( 2 , git ), editor of choice: CudaText ( OpenSCAD lexer ); $ Tips ; $ Snippets
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