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Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites

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

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Post by bigbubba »

IngvarLynn wrote: post #30

One obvious issue with both these downloaders is lack of proper modularization. Which greatly hinders adoption, I believe. I would expect some kind of plugin system. Naturally, there are attempts to fix that: https://github.com/un-def/dl-plus is one example. As a bonus that would help greatly with recent youtube-dl sort of situations and RIAA would have barely made a splash. Plenty of other features immediately come…

Jdownloader has the aesthetic of sketchy windows freeware from a bygone era. I tried it once, then uninstalled it a minute later. youtube-dl also integrates well with other tools or autonomous workflows; for example mpv invokes it to stream media from the web without downloading it to the disk.

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

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Post by NegativeLatency »

IngvarLynn wrote: post #30

One obvious issue with both these downloaders is lack of proper modularization. Which greatly hinders adoption, I believe. I would expect some kind of plugin system. Naturally, there are attempts to fix that: https://github.com/un-def/dl-plus is one example. As a bonus that would help greatly with recent youtube-dl sort of situations and RIAA would have barely made a splash. Plenty of other features immediately come…

As a former jdownlader user, it never stopped working but seems to be neglected.

Not to mention the ability to pip install youtube-dl compared to getting jdownloder off of some software site with multiple dark patterns to dodge.

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

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Post by gsich »

hprotagonist wrote: post #26
dtien wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not sure if this is sarcasm, but photos you liked aren't yours so this would be violating their privacy rules.

I'm perfectly serious; i want to download a bunch of stupid memes that my account has liked and saved into various groups in my account over the years. They're public photos that shitpost accounts have posted.

Maybe you get the link or some id in your export.

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

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Post by ffpip »

paulcarroty wrote: post #22

Cool project. Why download from Facebook isn't supported yet? Does FB use any protection for his content?

FB (and instagram, whatsapp) do something weird with all media files. They assign a unique ID to each image/video/file and they don't let you download if you try to remove that ID or change it. It changes every time you reload the page. Maybe something to do with that.

Plus there is also massive rate limiting. Especially instagram, since it is only images.

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

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Post by pbowyer »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #28
pbowyer wrote: 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…

Mind if I reach out to you via your contact info? I can get this into the Internet Archive.

Please do

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

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Post by nonbirithm »

I wrote something similar, but for the purpose of saving material to a personal image board while using a mobile device or browser, using a web service architecture. This means you don't have to use a terminal every time you want to save an image, and several different clients can be used without needing to rewrite the extraction code for each one. It also saves the original tags if the source supports them, which makes everything way more searchable. But this new program has a lot more site support than mine.

We need good wrappers for these kinds of programs for use with mobile devices.

https://github.com/Ruin0x11/szurupull

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

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Post by DamnableNook »

IngvarLynn wrote: post #30

One obvious issue with both these downloaders is lack of proper modularization. Which greatly hinders adoption, I believe. I would expect some kind of plugin system. Naturally, there are attempts to fix that: https://github.com/un-def/dl-plus is one example. As a bonus that would help greatly with recent youtube-dl sort of situations and RIAA would have barely made a splash. Plenty of other features immediately come…

gallery-dl has almost all of these features, minus the GUI and desktop integration. Did you read the link?
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