daeclipse-cli

Reverse-engineered Python CLI for DeviantArt Eclipse functionality


Keywords
python, deviantart, cli
License
MIT
Install
pip install daeclipse-cli==0.0.1

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daeclipse-cli is a handy CLI wrapper around the reverse-engineered daeclipse Python library for DeviantArt Eclipse functionality. The purpose is to bundle and present functionality enhancements to aid with dA usability.

Usage: daeclipse [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  DeviantArt Eclipse CLI

Options:
  --install-completion  Install completion for the current shell.
  --show-completion     Show completion for the current shell, to copy it or
                        customize the installation.

  --help                Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  add-art-to-groups  Submit DeviantArt deviation to groups.
  hot-tags           Return top tags on the hottest deviations.
  post-status        Post a DeviantArt status.
  show-tags          Return list of tags for given deviation.
  spammer            Return information and output for spam report helpdesk ticket creation.
  user-comments      Retrieve recent comments made by specified user.

Installation

The Python library is available via https://pypi.org/project/daeclipse-cli/

pip install daeclipse-cli

Usage

Once installed globally, commands can be run by prefixing with daeclipse.

daeclipse --help

For local development, if you clone the repo locally:

git clone git@github.com:Pepper-Wood/daeclipse.git

poetry run daeclipse --help

Build Status and Checks

CICD is run thorugh GitHub Actions and makes the below checks on the two components of this repository:

Python Package
Lint Python Linter Workflow Status
Test Coming Soon...
Deploy PyPI Package Workflow Status

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome, no matter how large or small! Before contributing, please read the code of conduct.

Contributor Covenant

If you have a feature request, run into a bug, or are unsure about anything, feel free to submit a GitHub issue.

If you are interested in creating a Pull Request, please read the guide on this repository's development process.

Commit titles on the main branch follow the emoji-commit-messages naming convention.

Caveats / Disclaimer

DeviantArt's history as a website is storied. Prior to the release of Eclipse, there were two options with creating tooling around its UI:

  • The Public DeviantArt API. See accompanying Python wrapper. The API is relatively easy to use - and utilizes OAuth2 for authentication - but its endpoints and functionality are sparce. It also was not updated for some time but now appears to be getting a handful of new endpoints based on the changelog.
  • The internal DeviantArt Interactive Fragment Interface (DiFi). DiFi has a wide range of functionality but is volatile/unreliable and difficult to use - especially compared to modern APIs.

On October 2019, DeviantArt announced DeviantArt Eclipse, a new UI (mostly) built in React. There are still a handful of pages on the website that expose the old website (i.e. https://www.deviantart.com/groups/) where functionality hasn't been completely ported. But with the new React UI, DeviantArt brought along a third option for tooling:

  • The internal DeviantArt NAPI, currently undocumented. The structure of its endpoints resembles RESTful practices, and authentication is done through scraping a CSRF token on the website or using a user's stored .deviantart.com cookies.

The implementation in this library relies on the DeviantArt NAPI. As such, functionality may break without warning depending on whether the internal DeviantArt team makes changes to these endpoints.