####VKStalk - vk.com scraper ######v5.0.0 BETA

Python console application. Scraps a VK user's public information. When running it displays in console:

• User online/offline (if offline, it shows last seen time)
• User is using mobile client
• User status (OR current music track if available)
• User data updates (any updates to user data, e.g. profile photo, nr. of wallposts)

#####Sample console output

=======| VKStalk ver. 5.0.0 BETA |=======

Launched on 08-November-2015 at 22:15
User ID: 45156687
User Name: Alexey Dvorak
Logs written: 0

==============| LATEST LOG |==============

>>> Checked on 2015-11-08 at 22:15:30 <<<

Date: 08-11-2015. Time: 19:09:20
Alexey Dvorak -- last seen yesterday at 03:49 [Mobile]
Status: it was all about cookies

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#####Setup

1. Clone or download this repo
2. Start a virtualenv within root directory
3. Activate virtualenv
4. Install requirements pip install -r requirements/base.txt
5. In src/config. Make a copy of sample_secrets.py and rename it to secrets.py
6. In src/config/secrets.py fill your database information. (By default it uses postgres, but you can try any other database, see this)
7. In src/config/settings.py set your timezone CLIENT_TZ
8. Start the app python main.py USER_VK_ID

#####Notes

• You can go ahead and play with settings in src/config/settings.py.
  • Of more interest could be: DATA_FETCH_INTERVAL, MAX_CONNECTION_ATTEMPTS, CONNECTION_TIMEOUT, CONSOLE_LOG_TEMPLATE
• To see accepted CLI arguments run python main.py -h
• To get the summary on a user run python main.py USER_VK_ID --summary. By default it will generate the summary for the past week and write it to a file in PROJECT_ROOT/summaries and also print it to console. This behaviour can be changed using CLI arguments.

#####Currently it parses the following information

• User data
  • name
  • birthday
  • photo
  • hometown
  • site
  • instagram
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • skype
  • phone
  • university
  • studied_at
  • wallposts
  • photos
  • videos
  • followers
  • communities
  • noteworthy_pages
  • current_city
  • info_1
  • info_2
  • info_3
• Activity
  • is_online
  • is_mobile
  • status
  • last_visit_lt_an_hour_ago
  • last_visit