gawker-archive

This is a file I wrote for some friends who used to work at Gawker to scrape their post archives into a text format.

OS X Installation Instructions:

1. Clone or download this repo

2. Unzip it.

3. Open a Terminal (Press Command-Space and type "Terminal"), and navigate to the repo. Assuming you downloaded and unzipped in the Downloads folder:

cd ~/Downloads/gawker-archive-master

4. Run the following command to download the pre-reqs. Your password will be required

sudo easy_install pip

5. Run these command to install the pre-eqs

sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Run the script

python gawker.py --user your_username_here

Enjoy!