scraper for downloading trips from EveryTrail, including GPS data, story, and photos.
Project description
A Python script which scrapes EveryTrail trip pages for trip stories, photos, and GPS data. Intended for the export of one’s own trips.
See this blog post for the motivation behind this tool.
Installation
Install using pip:
pip install everytrail_export
If this fails because of permissions, try pip install everytrail_export --user.
If this fails because pip is not installed, follow these instructions: https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html
Usage
Installing with pip makes an executable called everytrail_export available from the command line. Invoking the script with no arguments gives usage instructions:
everytrail_export
If this fails, make sure that your system $PATH includes the location where executable scripts from Python packages are installed. (For example, if you installed with the --user option on OSX, package scripts are installed to ~/Library/Python/2.7/bin.)
The –trailauth option
Downloading GPX/KML data from EveryTrail requires being logged in. This means you need to pass the login cookie from your web browser so that the script can act as a logged-in user.
First, log into EveryTrail on your browser, which will set a cookie indicating to EveryTrail you are logged in. Then find the value of the TRAILAUTH cookie, which will be a long string of letters and numbers that looks like like bce2a5ef9d3fd800e84f438f7237fe40dec5f1bd94cf67075ad17540ce956eed. Finding this cookie can be done in at least two ways:
Follow the instructions on this WikiHow page to view your browser’s cookies: http://www.wikihow.com/View-Cookies
While on an EveryTrail page, open your browser’s web developer console (usually under the Tools menu) and type document.cookie. Look for the TRAILAUTH value.
You can then pass the script that value using the --trailauth option.
The –trips-page option
If you use the --trips-page option to provide the URL for your trip listing page, then that list will scraped for individual trips to download. That way, you don’t have to pass the trips one at a time to the script.
To find your trips page, make sure you are logged into EveryTrail, then hover your mouse over “My EveryTrail” in the menu at the top of the page, until you see the dropdown menu appear. Click “My Trips” in the dropdown menu. Copy the URL in the address bar of your browser.
Putting it all together
Running the script with the --trailauth and --trips-page options will find all the trips listed at that URL, and then download the trips one by one:
$ everytrail_export --trailauth d9b61ab30a10... \ --trips-page http://www.everytrail.com/my_trips.php?user_id=154142 Scraping http://www.everytrail.com/my_trips.php?user_id=154142 for trip URLs... Found links to 15 trips: 1550019 1673357 1693258 1733157 1741278 1820769 1924844 1924847 2022884 2053816 2108623 2301920 2348794 2671553 2991898 Trip 1/15: Downloading http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1550019 El Corte de Madera Creek Trail - California, United States Saved trails/1550019-el-corte-de-madera-creek-trail/title.txt Saved trails/1550019-el-corte-de-madera-creek-trail/info.html Saved trails/1550019-el-corte-de-madera-creek-trail/stats.html Saving GPX and KML files... Downloading http://www.everytrail.com/downloadGPX.php?trip_id=1550019 Saved trails/1550019-el-corte-de-madera-creek-trail/1550019.gpx Downloading http://www.everytrail.com/downloadKML.php?trip_id=1550019 Saved trails/1550019-el-corte-de-madera-creek-trail/1550019.kmz Downloading photos page: http://www.everytrail.com/trip_pictures.php?trip_id=1550019&code= Photo 1/13: Downloading photo info page: http://www.everytrail.com/view_picture.php?trip_id=1550019&picture_id=4326030 Finding full photo: http://www.everytrail.com/picture/vieworiginal?picture_id=4336030 Downloading full photo: http://images.everytrail.com/pics/original/4336030-IMG_8018.jpg Saved "IMG_8018" to trails/1550019-el-corte-de-madera-creek-trail/images/4336030-IMG_8018.jpg ... Saved trails/1550019-el-corte-de-madera-creek-trail/photo_info.json Trip 2/15: ...
If you have so many trips that they span multiple listing pages (your trips page has a “Next” link at the bottom), then you will need to run the script for each listing page.
Downloading individual trips
An alternative way to call the script is to download only a specific trip or trips. In that case, you can specify them as arguments:
$ everytrail_export --trailauth d9b61ab30a10... \ http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=2671553 \ http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=2991898 \ http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=2348794
–skip-photos
If you have lots of photos but want to download only trip stories and GPS data, the --skip-photos option will make the download much faster.
Contact
If you have any questions, or run into trouble running this script, please email me at mark@warkmilson.com.
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