- prnt.sc is a free public image sharing website owned by Skillbrains.
- They also made a screenshot tool called Lightshot which can be used to take screenshots and upload them to prnt.sc.
- Each image is given a unique url which follows the regex
https://prnt.sc/[1-9a-z][0-9a-z]* - An image can be uniquely identified by its ID in the latter part of the url.
- The IDs are sequential base 36 numbers (instead of random) and hence images can be mass downloaded by iterating over the IDs.
- This behaviour has been changed and now the IDs are random. However, images uploaded before this change retain their sequential IDs.
usage: python main.py [-h] [--start_id START_ID] [--length LENGTH] [--count COUNT] [--outdir OUTDIR]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--start_id START_ID, -s START_ID Start scraping sequentially from START_ID. START_ID should be a alpha-numeric string (Recommended length 6).
If this argument is not given, scraper will scrape random IDs.
--length LENGTH, -l LENGTH Length of randomly generted IDs if random scraping is chosen. (Default value is 6).
--count COUNT, -c COUNT Scraper will stop after COUNT urls. (Default value is 100).
--outdir OUTDIR, -o OUTDIR Path to directory where images will be saved. (Default value is images/).