redgifs

Async and Sync Python Wrapper for the RedGIFs API.

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Installation

pip install -U redgifs

Development version

pip install -U git+https://github.com/scrazzz/redgifs

redgifs works on Python versions 3.8 and above.

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Quickstart

1. Command Line:

$ redgifs --help
Usage: redgifs [OPTIONS] [URLS]...

Options:
  -v, --version             Shows currently installed version.
  -q, --quality [sd|hd]     Video quality of GIF to download.  [default: hd]
  -f, --folder FOLDER_NAME  The folder to save the downloads to.
  -i, --input FILE_NAME     Download URLs from a newline seperated txt file.
  --images                  Download only images from a user profile.
  --help                    Show this message and exit.

Examples:

Download multiple GIFs

$ redgifs https://redgifs.com/watch/abc https://redgifs.com/watch/xyz https://redgifs.com/watch/def
Downloading abc...
Download complete

Downloading xyz...
Download complete

Downloading def...
Download complete

Download GIFs to a specific folder

$ ls
Home    Downloads  Homework  Music
Backup  Documents  Videos    Games
$ redgifs https://redgifs.com/watch/xyz --quality sd --folder Homework
Downloading xyz...
Download complete
$ ls Homework
xyz.mp4

Download GIFs from a text file that contains a list of URLs

$ # urls.txt:
$ # https://redigfs.com/watch/xyz
$ # https://redigfs.com/watch/qwe
$ # https://redigfs.com/watch/abc
$ # https://redigfs.com/watch/rst

$ redgifs -i urls.txt
Downloading xyz...
Download complete
Downloading qwe...

Download all GIFs from a user's profile

$ mkdir rg_vids
$ redgifs https://redgifs.com/users/usernamethatexists -f rg_vids
Downloaded 1/3 GIFs
Downloaded 2/3 GIFs
...
Downloaded 3/3 videos of user usernamethatexists to folder rg_vids sucessfully!

2. Synchronous usage:

import redgifs

api = redgifs.API()
api.login() # Login with temporary token
response = api.search('3D')
print(response)
api.close()

3. Asynchronous usage:

import asyncio
from redgifs.aio import API # note this

async def main():
    api = API()
    await api.login() # Login with temporary token
    response = await api.search('3D')
    print(response)
    await api.close()

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

More examples can be found in the examples directory.

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Links

• Documentation
• Discord
• Examples