Boosty Scrapper

Install

1. git clone https://github.com/shsmad/boosty-scrapper.git
2. cd boosty-scrapper
3. python3.12 -m venv venv
4. source venv/bin/activate
5. pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup

1. Log in to your Boosty account in web-browser

2. Get your Boosty cookies (see document.cookie in devtools). It shoud be a string like "auth=… _clientId=…"

3. create file .secrets.toml with structure `auth_cookies = %your cookies from 2%:

   auth_cookies = "auth=… _clientId=…"

Usage

1. ensure your venv is activated
2. python run.py %desired_boosty_author_to_scrape%
3. see posts/%desired_boosty_author_to_scrape% folder for posts