Weibo Scraper

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Simple weibo tweet scraper . Crawl weibo tweets without authorization. There are many limitations in official API . In general , we can inspect mobile site which has it's own API by Chrome.

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Why

1. Crawl weibo data in order to research big data .

2. Back up data for weibo's shameful blockade .

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Installation

pip

$ pip install weibo-scraper

Or Upgrade it.

$ pip install --upgrade weibo-scraper

pipenv

$ pipenv install weibo-scraper

Or Upgrade it.

$ pipenv update --outdated # show packages which are outdated

$ pipenv update weibo-scraper # just update weibo-scraper

Only Python 3.6+ is supported

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Usage

CLI

$ weibo-scraper -h

usage: weibo-scraper [-h] [-u U] [-p P] [-o O] [-f FORMAT]
                     [-efn EXPORTED_FILE_NAME] [-s] [-d] [--more] [-v]

weibo-scraper-1.0.7-beta 🚀

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u U                  username [nickname] which want to exported
  -p P                  pages which exported [ default 1 page ]
  -o O                  output file path which expected [ default 'current
                        dir' ]
  -f FORMAT, --format FORMAT
                        format which expected [ default 'txt' ]
  -efn EXPORTED_FILE_NAME, --exported_file_name EXPORTED_FILE_NAME
                        file name which expected
  -s, --simplify        simplify available info
  -d, --debug           open debug mode
  --more                more
  -v, --version         weibo scraper version

API

1. Firstly , you can get weibo profile by name or uid .

>>> from weibo_scraper import get_weibo_profile
>>> weibo_profile = get_weibo_profile(name='来去之间',)
>>> ....

You will get weibo profile response which is type of weibo_base.UserMeta, and this response include fields as below

field	chinese	type	sample	ext
id	用户id	str
screen_name	微博昵称	Option[str]
avatar_hd	高清头像	Option[str]	'https://ww2.sinaimg.cn/orj480/4242e8adjw8elz58g3kyvj20c80c8myg.jpg'
cover_image_phone	手机版封面	Option[str]	'https://tva1.sinaimg.cn/crop.0.0.640.640.640/549d0121tw1egm1kjly3jj20hs0hsq4f.jpg'
description	描述	Option[str]
follow_count	关注数	Option[int]	3568
follower_count	被关注数	Option[int]	794803
gender	性别	Option[str]	'm'/'f'
raw_user_response	原始返回	Option[dict]

2. Secondly , via tweet_container_id to get weibo tweets is a rare way to use but it also works well .

>>> from weibo_scraper import  get_weibo_tweets
>>> for tweet in get_weibo_tweets(tweet_container_id='1076033637346297',pages=1):
>>>     print(tweet)
>>> ....

3. Of Course , you can also get raw weibo tweets by nick name which is exist . And the param of pages is optional .

>>> from weibo_scraper import  get_weibo_tweets_by_name
>>> for tweet in get_weibo_tweets_by_name(name='嘻红豆', pages=1):
>>>     print(tweet)
>>> ....

3. If you want to get all tweets , you can set the param of pages as None

>>> from weibo_scraper import  get_weibo_tweets_by_name
>>> for tweet in get_weibo_tweets_by_name(name='嘻红豆', pages=None):
>>>     print(tweet)
>>> ....

4. You can also get formatted tweets via api of weibo_scrapy.get_formatted_weibo_tweets_by_name,

>>> from weibo_scraper import  get_formatted_weibo_tweets_by_name
>>> result_iterator = get_formatted_weibo_tweets_by_name(name='嘻红豆', pages=None)
>>> for user_meta in result_iterator:
>>>     if user_meta is not None:
>>>         for tweetMeta in user_meta.cards_node:
>>>             print(tweetMeta.mblog.text)
>>> ....

5. Get realtime hot words

hotwords = weibo_scraper.get_realtime_hotwords()
    for hw in hotwords:
        print(str(hw))

6. Get realtime hot words in every interval

wt = Timer(name="realtime_hotword_timer", fn=weibo_scraper.get_realtime_hotwords, interval=1)
wt.set_ignore_ex(True)
wt.scheduler()

LICENSE

MIT

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