Given a Storify username, write <username>.json, a <username> folder, and a <username>/<storify-slug>.json for each story

dump-storify-json.py

#!/usr/bin/python
try:
    import simplejson as json
except:
    import json
import requests
import math
import sys
import os
import errno

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    sys.stderr.write('usage: python dump-storify-json.py <storify_screen_name>\n')
    sys.exit(2)

STORIFY_USER = sys.argv[1]
try:
    os.makedirs(STORIFY_USER)
except OSError as e:
    if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
        sys.exit('failure creating user directory\n')
    else:
        sys.stderr.write('warning: user directory exists, contents will be overwritten\n')

API_URL = 'https://api.storify.com/v1'
STORIFY_API_KEY = ''
STORIFY_PAGINATION = 50

ENDPOINT = "{0}/{1}/{2}?api_key={3}".format(API_URL, 'users', STORIFY_USER, STORIFY_API_KEY)
try:
    USER_JSON = requests.get(ENDPOINT).json()
except:
    sys.exit('request failure on username\n')

with open('{0}.json'.format(STORIFY_USER), 'w') as f:
    json.dump(USER_JSON, f)

NUM_STORIES = USER_JSON['content']['stats']['stories']
STORY_PAGES = int(math.ceil(NUM_STORIES / STORIFY_PAGINATION)) + 1
STORIES = list()

for page in range(0, STORY_PAGES):
    endpoint = "{0}/{1}/{2}?api_key={3}&per_page={4}&page={5}".format(API_URL, 'stories', STORIFY_USER, STORIFY_API_KEY, STORIFY_PAGINATION, page)
    
    try:
        stories_json = requests.get(endpoint).json()
    except:
        sys.exit('request failure on stories\n')
    STORIES.extend(stories_json['content']['stories'])

for story in STORIES:
    NUM_ELEMENTS = sum(story['stats']['elements'].values())
    ELEMENT_PAGES = int(math.ceil(NUM_ELEMENTS / STORIFY_PAGINATION)) + 1
    ELEMENTS = list()
    
    for page in range(0, ELEMENT_PAGES):
        endpoint = "{0}/{1}/{2}/{3}/?api_key={4}&per_page={5}&page={6}".format(API_URL, 'stories', STORIFY_USER, story['slug'], STORIFY_API_KEY, STORIFY_PAGINATION, page)
        
        try:
            elements_json = requests.get(endpoint).json()
        except:
            sys.exit('request failure on story elements\n')
        ELEMENTS.extend(elements_json['content']['elements'])
    
    story['elements'] = ELEMENTS
    
    with open('{0}/{1}.json'.format(STORIFY_USER, story['slug']), 'w') as f:
        json.dump(story, f)