RipMeApp/ripme
Ripme
Ripme is a batch media downloader and web media scraper designed for extracting images and videos from image-hosting platforms and social media sites. It functions as an image gallery downloader and a network client capable of retrieving full albums and paginated content.
The project includes a custom media ripper framework that allows for the definition of new extraction rules to support websites lacking native support. It features a proxy-enabled network layer for routing requests through HTTP or SOCKS servers and supports session-based content retrieval using authentication cookies and custom HTTP headers to access restricted areas.
The system provides capabilities for bulk media acquisition through URL range downloading, HTML parsing with CSS selectors, and clipboard monitoring for automated triggers. It manages high-volume retrieval with queue-based batch processing, duplicate filtering based on download history, and metadata filtering to refine results.
Post-download workflows are supported via system command execution hooks that trigger after tasks are completed.
Features
- URL Image Downloaders - Retrieves large sets of images and full galleries from supported social media and hosting platforms.
- HTML Parsing - Uses CSS selectors and regular expressions to extract media links and gallery content from HTML documents.
- Media Downloaders - Functions as a batch downloader for sequences of numbered URLs and related albums.
- Automated Media Archivers - Provides automated collection of images and videos from the web to maintain local archives.
- Paginated Gallery Traversals - Traverses multi-page galleries by automatically identifying and retrieving subsequent pages in a sequence.
- Web Media Scrapers - Implements a specialized scraper that parses HTML and uses regular expressions to collect and aggregate media URLs from galleries.
- Web Page Image Extraction - Extracts images and full albums from image-hosting platforms and social media websites.
- Media Extraction Engines - Resolves direct file URLs for multimedia content from supported websites with format preferences.
- Media Extraction Frameworks - Offers a developer framework for defining how to identify, crawl, and extract media from unsupported websites.
- Album Group Downloads - Automates the retrieval of cohesive media albums and groups, including support for specific URL ranges.
- Media Ripper Extensions - Allows the creation of tailored extraction rules and scripts to download media from unsupported websites.
- Media Ripper Frameworks - Provides a framework to define how to identify, crawl, and download media from unsupported websites.
- Plugin-Based Architectures - Employs a plugin-based architecture allowing the definition of site-specific scrapers through a standardized interface.
- CSS Selector Engines - Implements a CSS selector engine to identify and extract media links from HTML document structures.
- Clipboard Monitoring - Monitors the system clipboard to automatically detect and trigger downloads of copied media links.
- URL Pattern Range Generators - Generates a sequence of target URLs by replacing numeric patterns in seed links with a specified range.
- Web Scraping - Extracts media from paginated websites and URL ranges by identifying image patterns and bypassing restrictions.
- URL Duplicate Detectors - Tracks download history to identify and skip duplicate URLs, preventing redundant file retrieval.
- Cookie-Based Session Authentication for Downloads - Provides the ability to import browser cookies to authenticate and download restricted or member-only media content.
- Gallery Discovery Queues - Scans web pages for linked galleries and adds them to a download queue for batch processing.
- Batch Processing Utilities - Manages a sequence of pending downloads and related galleries using a queue-based batch processing system.
- Metadata Filtering - Provides mechanisms to refine results by filtering albums and files based on metadata like tags and vote counts.
- Sequential URL Range Downloads - Fetches content from a sequence of numbered URLs by specifying a start and end range.
- Download Tracking - Maintains a log of retrieved content identifiers to avoid downloading duplicate files.
- Custom Request Headers - Allows the injection of user-defined metadata and custom HTTP headers like referrers and cookies into requests.
- Proxy Routing - Routes outgoing HTTP and SOCKS requests through proxy servers to bypass IP-based restrictions and mask origin.
- Download Duplicate Filters - Prevents redundant downloads by tracking history and skipping files that have already been retrieved.
- Media HTTP Clients - Implements a network client supporting custom headers, session cookies, and SOCKS proxies for media retrieval.
- Media Download Tools - Bulk downloader for images and videos from various websites.
