telegra.ph-scraper

Load HTML and images from a telegra.ph post and saves the data to local harddrive. You can change the python file to your needs. I use it to scrape my telegra.ph posts and put them as plain html code to my website: www.unsere-schule.org

Python modules used:

• Beautiful Soup 4 for parsing HTML. (pip install beautifulsoup4)
• Requests to download data from website. (clone repo and install with pip)
• Pillow for image rezising. (pip install Pillow)
• re for using Regular Expressions.
• urllib.request to download images from the website.
• os to create a new folder for the downloaded images.

Functions:

• load all HTML from entered telegra.ph URL
• load all images from entered telegra.ph URL and saves them to a "/images/" folder
• resize alle images to a specific value -> you have both images lowres and normal res
• add style to img tags for responsiveness
• use regular expression to get view code of embedded youtube videos and create new iframe container

!Info: Use Youtube videos in your telegra.ph post with the standard URL, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsTLJlPvVvE. The regular expression searches for "?v=".

Link to telegra.ph article for some additional informations.