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Re: Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites

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Glad to see ArtStation is included. Might finally give me enough impetus to write a script to change my wallpaper daily

The following will give you "#1 wallpaper of the day" as decided by the wise folks at Reddit:

  curl -A 'random' "https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpaper/top.json?t=day&limit=1 | jq -r '.data.children[0].data.preview.images[0].source.url' | sed 's/preview\./i\./g'
And if you're a Mac user, the following will change the background:

  osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to set desktop picture to POSIX file ""'
Glueing these two pieces should be trivial :)

Re: Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Instagram not have an export function (similar to Facebook) for personal data to comply with CCPA and GDPR? If not, they should be reported to the appropriate regulatory bodies to encourage such an export function. Disclaimer: I don’t have or use Insta, so apologies if this is a naive question.

They do. You can easily get all your photos, chats, etc using that feature. https://www.facebook.com/help/instagram/181231772500920?help...

ah, but i want a tarball of every photo/photogallery that i have liked. This seems to just be what I’ve ever posted.

Re: Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites

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post #6

Not to take anything from how great it is to have something like this, some of the supported sites have heavy rate limiting and bot detection and using this with your account can easily get you banned. For example, I had immense difficulty parsing my own saved posts from instagram (used a one-off script that runs in the browser).

There is instaloader [1]

[1] https://instaloader.github.io/

Re: Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites

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Does anyone know of a downloader that works for private Facebook Groups? I'm a member of some local history groups and the material posted is amazing. I'd like to refer to it in the future, likely long after the posters are gone. I can't rely on Facebook being around then.

Copying and pasting into a personal archive is slow when you want to capture everything (posts and comments) since you don't know which history you'll want to refer to in the future.

Re: Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites

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post #15

Does anyone know of a downloader that works for private Facebook Groups? I'm a member of some local history groups and the material posted is amazing. I'd like to refer to it in the future, likely long after the posters are gone. I can't rely on Facebook being around then. Copying and pasting into a personal archive is slow when you want to capture everything (posts and comments) since you don't know which history yo…

I don't know of any solutions, but would like to add that I am interested in one as well.

Re: Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites

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post #15

Does anyone know of a downloader that works for private Facebook Groups? I'm a member of some local history groups and the material posted is amazing. I'd like to refer to it in the future, likely long after the posters are gone. I can't rely on Facebook being around then. Copying and pasting into a personal archive is slow when you want to capture everything (posts and comments) since you don't know which history yo…

There are browser extensions that simply lets you save all (or some selection of) images that load on a website. Maybe that's good enough if you can't find one that has proper support for Facebook groups. I imagine you could quite quickly just click through the material and save it. Won't work for text or metadata like descriptions/titles I guess...
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