OpenSCAD_Spider

Download remote OpenSCAD files

A python script to download remote OpenSCAD files. The idea is similar to the pip package installer in python.

What openscad_spider.py does:

1. Create 2 folders in the ...OpenSCAD/libraries folder:

   * spider_food
   * spider_food_store
   

2. Download OpenSCAD file(s) from one of SPIDER_WEBS. It is defined in 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

3. Additionally, libname must be specified, and optionally author:

   > ... --libname <some_name> --author <author>

   Consider: for github, use clone; for thingiverse: use unzip

4. 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.

5. When --web is not a direct url to a .scad file, this prog needs to srape through the given webpage to dig out the direct download url. This can be done with either python itself, or consider the other webpage scrapping tool like BeautifulSoup or Scrapy.

6. The downloaded file(s) will be saved to

   ...OpenSCAD/libraries/spider_food

7. A new file, spider_template.scad, is created in the current working folder, containing:

   include <sider_food/<libname>>

8. Run spider_template.scad in OpenSCAD

9. Upon exist, ask users if this lib is to be kept. If yes, make a copy to ...OpenSCAD/libraries/spider_food_store

Project Progress

20180313- Project plan outlined in README.md