can I download my likes?

[AdventurerRussia]

I'm sorry, but I only found how to download the channel, but I have 1500 thousand koubs in likes, is it possible to download them? or get links to all of them? To download them later.

[HelpSeeker]

Not sure whether I'm going crazy or I just missed this issue for more than a year, despite regularly visiting the repo. If the latter, then my deepest apologies.

In any case, I don't plan on introducing any features that require authentication. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[retifrav]

I got to this issue just today, also wondering about saving the Coub likes, and I was actually typing an answer to @AdventurerRussia, when all of the sudden @HelpSeeker posted his own reply! Quite amazing timing, that we both got here more than a year later at the same moment.

Anyway, here's what I was about to post.

Since it's user's likes, getting them would require authenticating as that user, and sadly Coub doesn't seem to provide API keys (anymore?), so I reckon that is the reason why this functionality wasn't implemented in CoubDownloader.

To answer your other question, it is indeed possible to get a list of your likes URLs and to feed that list to CoubDownloader: if you open this URL in your browser (being authenticated on Coub) - https://coub.com/api/v2/timeline/likes?all=true&order_by=date&page=1 - then you should get a JSON object with your liked coubs, which you can easily parse for download URLs and make a list of them.

One thing to note here is that this is a paginated result, so you'll need to iterate through total_pages number of results by changing page=1 query parameter. Another thing to note here is that to work with this from a script or wherever you'll need your authentication cookie header value - you can get it from your browser console.

As I needed to do the same myself (I wanted to save all my liked coubs locally, just in case), I wrote a silly script that does exactly that - fetches URLs of all my liked coubs: https://github.com/retifrav/python-scripts/blob/master/coub-likes-list/coub-likes-list.py
Having replaced aythenticationCookie and whereToSaveLikesList values you'll be able to run it to generate the list of URLs and then call CoubDownloader:

$ python ./coub-likes-list.py
$ python /path/to/coub-downloader/coub.py /tmp/my-coub-likes.txt

I could/should probably also add CLI interface and actually calling CoubDownloader from the script too, but I figured that'd be a bit of an overkill for a one-time task like this.

[AdventurerRussia]

by the way, there is a script that another person created, you enter a token there and it saves the list immediately in the script folder

cmd
python.exe parse-likes.py "token"

https://gist.github.com/AlukardBF/10a257ecaf2fd7d048b06592f48ad495