LightShot Image Extractor: scrapes the jpg screenshot link from a LightShot page

lightshot.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# coding: utf-8

""" LightShot Image Extractor

Date: 17th December 2016
Author: nkmathew <[email protected]>

Script for scraping the jpg link from a LightShot screenshot page to be used for
hotlinking

"""
import urllib.request
import sys
import argparse

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

__version__ = '0.1.0'


def create_args_parser():
    """ Returns command line parser """
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description="Extracts the jpg link from a LightShot page(http://prnt.sc/)",
        prog='LightShot Image Extractor')
    parser.add_argument(
        '-v', '--version', action='version',
        help='Prints script version',
        version='LightShot Image Extractor v%s' % __version__)
    parser.add_argument(dest='page_url', help='LightShot page url',
                        type=str, default='')
    return parser


def parse_options(arguments=None):
    """ Reads command-line arguments
    """
    if arguments is None:
        arguments = sys.argv[1:]
    if isinstance(arguments, str):
        arguments = arguments.split()
    if isinstance(arguments, argparse.Namespace):
        return arguments
    parser = create_args_parser()
    args = parser.parse_args(arguments)
    return args


def lightshot_image(url):
    """ Extracts the jpg url from a LightShot page

    >>> lightshot_image('http://prntscr.com/dki21q')
    http://image.prntscr.com/image/1aaf571d0adf4aa098eb565bbb196af6.png

    """
    agent = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64)'}
    request = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=agent)
    html = urllib.request.urlopen(request).read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
    meta_tags = soup.find_all('meta')
    image_src = ''
    for meta in meta_tags:
        try:
            if 'twitter:image:src' in meta['name']:
                image_src = meta['content']
        except KeyError:
            pass
    return image_src


def main(options=None):
    """ Entry point """
    opts = parse_options(options)
    print(lightshot_image(opts.page_url))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Would be nice if someone made a PHP version of this

Here is the LightShot Image Extractor using Javascript