volyx/vk-archive-assets-downloader

Utility for downloading attached files from the VKontakte data archive.

vk-archive-assets-downloader

Utility for downloading attached files from the VKontakte data archive.

Quick start:

1. Request and download archive on this page
2. Unarchive to a folder
3. Run ./vk-archive-assets-downloader --src='~/downloads/archive'

Parameters

./vk-archive-assets-downloader --src=~/downloads/archive --dialogs=259460211,359460212 --types=Photo,Video -dest ~/dest
# OR
./vk-archive-assets-downloader -src ~/downloads/archive -dialogs 259460211,359460212 -types Photo,Video -dest ~/dest

Parameter	Default value	Description
--src	./archive	Path to archive folder
--dialogs	N/A	Comma separated string with dialog ids. Dialog id you can found in dialog URL (sel query parameter) https://vk.com/im?sel=<Dialog Id>
-types	N/A	Comma separated string with the attachment type name. A type must be specified in the language of the archive. Example -types Photo,Video for english and -types Фотография,Видеозапись for russian
-dest	./dest	Path to destination folder.
-encoding	Windows1251	Archive source file encoding. [The following encodings](#supported encodings) are supported.
-pool	1000	Length of attachments queue
-threads	Number of logical CPUs usable by the current process	Number of threads to download attachments

Supported encodings

• CodePage037 is this IBM Code Page 037 encoding.
• CodePage1047 is this IBM Code Page 1047 encoding.
• CodePage1140 is this IBM Code Page 1140 encoding.
• CodePage437 is this IBM Code Page 437 encoding.
• CodePage850 is this IBM Code Page 850 encoding.
• CodePage852 is this IBM Code Page 852 encoding.
• CodePage855 is this IBM Code Page 855 encoding.
• CodePage858 is this Windows Code Page 858 encoding.
• CodePage860 is this IBM Code Page 860 encoding.
• CodePage862 is this IBM Code Page 862 encoding.
• CodePage863 is this IBM Code Page 863 encoding.
• CodePage865 is this IBM Code Page 865 encoding.
• CodePage866 is this IBM Code Page 866 encoding.
• ISO8859_1 is this ISO 8859-1 encoding.
• ISO8859_10 is this ISO 8859-10 encoding.
• ISO8859_13 is this ISO 8859-13 encoding.
• ISO8859_14 is this ISO 8859-14 encoding.
• ISO8859_15 is this ISO 8859-15 encoding.
• ISO8859_16 is this ISO 8859-16 encoding.
• ISO8859_2 is this ISO 8859-2 encoding.
• ISO8859_3 is this ISO 8859-3 encoding.
• ISO8859_4 is this ISO 8859-4 encoding.
• ISO8859_5 is this ISO 8859-5 encoding.
• ISO8859_6 is this ISO 8859-6 encoding.
• ISO8859_7 is this ISO 8859-7 encoding.
• ISO8859_8 is this ISO 8859-8 encoding.
• ISO8859_9 is this ISO 8859-9 encoding.
• KOI8R is this KOI8-R encoding.
• KOI8U is this KOI8-U encoding.
• Macintosh is this Macintosh encoding.
• MacintoshCyrillic is this Macintosh Cyrillic encoding.
• Windows1250 is this Windows 1250 encoding.
• Windows1251 is this Windows 1251 encoding.
• Windows1252 is this Windows 1252 encoding.
• Windows1253 is this Windows 1253 encoding.
• Windows1254 is this Windows 1254 encoding.
• Windows1255 is this Windows 1255 encoding.
• Windows1256 is this Windows 1256 encoding.
• Windows1257 is this Windows 1257 encoding.
• Windows1258 is this Windows 1258 encoding.
• Windows874 is this Windows 874 encoding.