ThingsBox

Things and collection scraper for keeping it locally.

First of all, i would like to say THANKS for the idea:

1. Carlos Garcia Saura (carlosgs) https://github.com/carlosgs/export-things
2. Gary Hodgson (garyhodgson) https://github.com/garyhodgson/thing-tracker-network

So, how to get the desirable result? ;)

Here is a several simple steps:

1. Run python script from Scraper_Scripts - export_thing.py (every script has help - just run it without params)

   Example:

              clone git repo
              cd Scraper_Scripts
              ./export_thing.py S 2234364
   

   At the finish you will get folder with the name of downloaded thing

   Example:

   MakerBot-Fidget-Gear

   In the directory you will see some dirs with images, source files, ziped sources and file tracker.json tracker.json is a main file with all information about thing

2. You will need to build your own application or you can use builded from the directory - Ready_to_Use. Directory Ready_to_Use contain all necessery to get example application with example thing, just put its content to htdocs directory of apache and open page: http://your_web_server

How to add a new thing to ThingsBox page:

1.Go to ThingsBox directory

2.Copy all content from grabbed file (in our example - MakerBot-Fidget-Gear/tracker.json) to Ready_to_Use/empty_tracker.json

3.Do not forget add some extra symbols at the end of file - ']}'

4.Rename Ready_to_Use/empty_tracker.json to Ready_to_Use/tracker.json

5.Copy whole directory Scraper_Scripts/MakerBot-Fidget-Gear to Ready_to_Use/thumbnails/

6.Copy whole directory Ready_to_Use into your apache htdocs dir

7.Open http://your_web_server address at your web browser.

Example(bash)

cd ThingsBox

cat ./Scraper_Scripts/MakerBot-Fidget-Gear/tracker.json >> ./Ready_to_Use/empty_tracker.json

echo "]}">>./Ready_to_Use/empty_tracker.json

mv ./Ready_to_Use/empty_tracker.json ./Ready_to_Use/tracker.json

cp -R ./Scraper_Scripts/MakerBot-Fidget-Gear/ ./Ready_to_Use/thumbnails/

cp -R ./* /var/www/localhost/htdocs

go to http://your_web_server web page

How to add several new things to ThingsBox page:

1.Add one thing, but instead of "]}" add at the end of file ","

2.Add one more thing, do not forget add "," at the end.

3.When you add last thing, add "]}" and do not add ",".

4.Copy whole grabbed things dir's from Scraper_Scripts to Ready_to_Use/thumbnail dir

5.Copy whole directory (Ready_to_Use) content to your web server.

6.Open http://your_web_server address at your web browser.