Hi there! I'm @hitstun from @FloatingIsFun , where we get easily distracted by floaty things. I'm so glad @Martineski is here and I'm not running the only functioning art collection on the Fediverse anymore. Hopefully my SauceNAO Pixiv scraping tool can help you guys post those cool Pixiv stuff on this and your other sublemmies. Can we get other Imaginary subreddits to make the jump?
Alright, can you explain me what this scraping tool does exactly? Thanks.
Sure thing!
- User pastes an image URL into cell B2
- Google Sheets loads the page for a SauceNAO.com search limited to Pixiv, parsing it as XML
- From the SauceNAO results, it reads the title, page URL, artist name, and artist URL from that XML
- Google Translate tries to translate the title and artist name into the user's language if it's not already
- Google Sheets also tries to load the Pixiv image page and scrape the canonical URL from its XML
- Using all this scraped information, it stitches them together into post titles and source comments you can copy and paste
- It also does a SauceNAO search for non-Pixiv source and gives their URLs if any are available
Originally posted on Reddit March 28, 2023
Reddit (colored), (inks), (pencils), Instagram, INPRNT
Title: Kiki's Delivery Service re-imagined flying through Flatiron NYC, colored
Artist: TurtleboatI saw this on /r/ghibli and this belongs here even more than it belongs on /r/FloatingIsFun. A modern day Kiki would make loads of money in food delivery, especially when delivering to those tall buildings! Check out all those Ghibli easter eggs, too.
