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SigStickers - Signal Sticker Downloader

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The sigstickers package provides functionality for downloading and converting sticker packs from https://signal.art/addstickers (find packs at https://www.sigstick.com/). Download stickers in WebP format, and convert them to PNG and GIF formats, with caching the converted stickers for faster retrieval.

Key Features

  1. Sticker Pack Downloading from Signal from their https://signal.art/addstickers url
  2. Sticker Pack Conversion from the WebP format to PNG and GIF formats, making them compatible with various platforms and applications.
  3. Caching Functionality to store converted sticker images locally, reducing the need to re-convert them
  4. Asynchronous Processing for downloading and converting sticker packs

Using

  1. Get the URL of the Signal sticker pack. In the form https://signal.art/addstickers (find packs at https://www.sigstick.com/)

  2. Pass in multiple packs from the commandline with -p/--pack

    $ python -m sigstickers --help
    usage: Welcome to SigSticker, providing all of your sticker needs [-h] [-p PACK [PACK ...]]
    
    options:
    -h, --help            show this help message and exit
    -p PACK [PACK ...], --pack PACK [PACK ...]
    						Pass in a pack URL inline
    
    $ python -m sigstickers --pack 'https://signal.art/addstickers/#pack_id=b676ec334ee2f771cadff5d095971e8c&pack_key=c957a57000626a2dc3cb69bf0e79c91c6b196b74d4d6ca1cbb830d3ad0ad4e36'
    
    2024-03-17 00:14:16.354 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:download_pack:82 - ============================================================
    2024-03-17 00:14:16.805 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:download_pack:88 - Starting to scrape "DonutTheDog" ...
    2024-03-17 00:14:16.812 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:download_pack:89 - Time taken to scrape 28 stickers - 0.999s
    2024-03-17 00:14:16.813 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:download_pack:90 -
    2024-03-17 00:14:16.816 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:download_pack:96 - ------------------------------------------------------------
    2024-03-17 00:14:16.820 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:download_pack:97 - Starting download of "DonutTheDog" into ...\downloads\DonutTheDog
    2024-03-17 00:14:16.894 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:convert_pack:151 - ------------------------------------------------------------
    2024-03-17 00:14:16.897 | INFO     | sigstickers.caching:verify_converted:35 - -> Cache miss for DonutTheDog!
    2024-03-17 00:14:16.905 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:convert_pack:163 - Converting stickers "DonutTheDog"...
    2024-03-17 00:14:29.655 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:convert_pack:171 - Time taken to convert 28/28 stickers - 12.749s
    2024-03-17 00:14:29.656 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:convert_pack:175 -
  3. OR. Enter the URL of the sticker pack

    $ python -m sigstickers
    Enter sticker_set URL (leave blank to stop): https://signal.art/addstickers/#pack_id=b676ec334ee2f771cadff5d095971e8c&pack_key=c957a57000626a2dc3cb69bf0e79c91c6b196b74d4d6ca1cbb830d3ad0ad4e36
    Enter sticker_set URL (leave blank to stop):
    2024-03-17 00:18:25.528 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:download_pack:82 - ============================================================
    2024-03-17 00:18:26.415 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:download_pack:88 - Starting to scrape "DonutTheDog" ...
    2024-03-17 00:18:26.417 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:download_pack:89 - Time taken to scrape 28 stickers - 0.885s
    2024-03-17 00:18:26.420 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:download_pack:90 -
    2024-03-17 00:18:26.426 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:download_pack:96 - ------------------------------------------------------------
    2024-03-17 00:18:26.428 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:download_pack:97 - Starting download of "DonutTheDog" into ...\downloads\DonutTheDog
    2024-03-17 00:18:26.497 | INFO     | sigstickers.downloader:convert_pack:151 - ------------------------------------------------------------
    2024-03-17 00:18:26.524 | INFO     | sigstickers.caching:verify_converted:33 - -> Cache hit for DonutTheDog!
  4. Get the output in the downloads folder.

    $ ls .\downloads\DonutTheDog\
    
    Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
    ----                 -------------         ------ ----
    d-----        17/03/2024     00κž‰14                gif
    d-----        17/03/2024     00κž‰14                png
    d-----        17/03/2024     00κž‰08                webp
    
    $ ls .\downloads\DonutTheDog\webp
    
    Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
    ----                 -------------         ------ ----
    -a----        17/03/2024     00κž‰18         285292 0+face_with_tears_of_joy+πŸ˜‚.webp
    -a----        17/03/2024     00κž‰18         271726 1+face_blowing_a_kiss+😘.webp
    -a----        17/03/2024     00κž‰18         306995 10+smiling_face_with_horns+😈.webp
    -a----        17/03/2024     00κž‰18         293578 11+partying_face+πŸ₯³.webp
    -a----        17/03/2024     00κž‰18         266627 12+angry_face+😠.webp

Formats

Format Static Animated
.gif βœ”$ βœ”$
.png βœ” +
.webp βœ” βœ”
+ The first frame of an animated image is saved as png
$ Some images saved as gif do not render as expected

Documentation

A high-level overview of how the documentation is organized organized will help you know where to look for certain things:

  • The Technical Reference documents APIs and other aspects of the machinery. This documentation describes how to use the classes and functions at a lower level and assume that you have a good high-level understanding of the software.

Install With PIP

pip install sigstickers

Head to https://pypi.org/project/sigstickers/ for more info

Language information

Built for

This program has been written for Python versions 3.8 - 3.11 and has been tested with both 3.8 and 3.11

Install Python on Windows

Chocolatey

choco install python

Windows - Python.org

To install Python, go to https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ and download the latest version.

Install Python on Linux

Apt

sudo apt install python3.x

Dnf

sudo dnf install python3.x

Install Python on MacOS

Homebrew

brew install [email protected]

MacOS - Python.org

To install Python, go to https://www.python.org/downloads/macos/ and download the latest version.

How to run

Windows

  • Module py -3.x -m [module] or [module] (if module installs a script)

  • File py -3.x [file] or ./[file]

Linux/ MacOS

  • Module python3.x -m [module] or [module] (if module installs a script)

  • File python3.x [file] or ./[file]

Building

This project uses https://github.com/FHPythonUtils/FHMake to automate most of the building. This command generates the documentation, updates the requirements.txt and builds the library artefacts

Note the functionality provided by fhmake can be approximated by the following

handsdown  --cleanup -o documentation/reference
poetry export -f requirements.txt --output requirements.txt
poetry export -f requirements.txt --with dev --output requirements_optional.txt
poetry build

fhmake audit can be run to perform additional checks

Testing

For testing with the version of python used by poetry use

poetry run pytest

Alternatively use tox to run tests over python 3.8 - 3.11

tox

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  3. Open the command line and change directory to where you wish to clone to

  4. Type 'git clone' followed by URL in step 2

    git clone https://github.com/FHPythonUtils/SigStickers

More information can be found at https://help.github.com/en/articles/cloning-a-repository

Using GitHub Desktop

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  2. Click open in desktop
  3. Choose the path for where you want and click Clone

More information can be found at https://help.github.com/en/desktop/contributing-to-projects/cloning-a-repository-from-github-to-github-desktop

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