QQ Zone Crawler

This article is currently an experimental machine translation and may contain errors. If anything is unclear, please refer to the original Chinese version. I am continuously working to improve the translation.

I’m running out of ideas for my QQ nickname again lol.

So I thought—why not write a crawler to collect all QQ usernames and filter through them? Who knows, maybe I could even use TensorFlow to pick the perfect one.

Here’s the code snippet.

import requests
import json
import time
from util.RemoveCallback import remove_callback


def get_username_and_pic(uid, retry=3):

    while True:
        try:
            res = requests.get("https://r.qzone.qq.com/fcg-bin/cgi_get_portrait.fcg", verify=False, params={
                "uins": uid
            }, timeout=1)
            break
        except Exception as e:
            retry -= 1
            time.sleep(1)
            if retry <= 0:
                raise e

    try:
        res = json.loads(remove_callback(res.content.decode("gbk")))
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)
        try:
            res = json.loads(remove_callback(res.content.decode("utf-8")))
        except Exception as e2:
            print(e2)

    name = res[str(uid)][6]
    pic = res[str(uid)][0]
    if name.replace(' ', '') != '':
        return name, pic
    else:
        raise Exception("Failed to get name: RAW: " + str(res))

This article is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Author: lyc8503, Article link: https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/qzone-name-crawler/
If this article was helpful or interesting to you, consider buy me a coffee¬_¬
Feel free to comment in English below o/