Wikiart Retriever

Full retriever for art and metadata in http://wikiart.org/. Please read the LICENSE file in the base directory.

Installation and Usage

First, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/lucasdavid/wikiart
cd wikiart

You need to change settings.py file to match your settings.

vim wikiart/settings.py

Variable BASE_FOLDER points out to the location in which the data will be downloaded:

BASE_FOLDER = '/home/ldavid/data/wikiart'

Now install and run the software:

pip install setup.py
wikiart  # Fetch and convert WikiArt.org data into a data set.
# ...
# The data set is waiting for you at /home/ldavid/data/wikiart/1

You can also only fetch or convert, as well as executing a new fetching/conversion instance:

wikiart fetch --instance 2
# ...
wikiart convert --instance 2
# ...
# The data set will be placed at /home/ldavid/data/wikiart/2