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Tip: How to back up (download) someone's FA gallery
2 years ago
August 2024 update: Since the writing of this journal I've been made aware of https://furarchiver.net/, which is probably the more user-friendly option if you want to grab something off of FurAffinity. The gallery-dl option described below is still worth knowing about, though, as it allows you to archive galleries not just from FA, but other sites as well.
Given that the recent FA policy change announcement has raised a lot of concerns about entire artists' galleries being purged, I just wanted to point out that it's easy to create a local archive of your own, or someone else's, gallery by using the gallery-dl command-line tool.
It takes a couple of minutes to set up and understand (you'll want to check out the Authentication section on the Readme file to get it to work with FA), but after that it's as easy as writing
gallery-dl --destination 'D:\gallery-dl' --write-metadata --write-info-json 'https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/Phon/';
in a shell prompt, and it'll download all images and metadata (description and whatnot) from someone's gallery. (Obviously you'll want to adjust the URL, destination path, and other parameters as you see fit.)
Works for plenty of other sites, too! Give it a shot sometime (soon, while the content's still there).
Given that the recent FA policy change announcement has raised a lot of concerns about entire artists' galleries being purged, I just wanted to point out that it's easy to create a local archive of your own, or someone else's, gallery by using the gallery-dl command-line tool.
It takes a couple of minutes to set up and understand (you'll want to check out the Authentication section on the Readme file to get it to work with FA), but after that it's as easy as writing
gallery-dl --destination 'D:\gallery-dl' --write-metadata --write-info-json 'https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/Phon/';
in a shell prompt, and it'll download all images and metadata (description and whatnot) from someone's gallery. (Obviously you'll want to adjust the URL, destination path, and other parameters as you see fit.)
Works for plenty of other sites, too! Give it a shot sometime (soon, while the content's still there).
I'm not sure what the info.json file is doing though. Seems to just be a copy of the latest submission metadata in the gallery.
It's great for downloading twitter galleries too. That's why I had it set up, but I didn't expect FA to follow suit with their own footgun
I've been trying -u "username" -p "password"
also tried -o "name=username" -o "pass=password" based on the login variables
you managed to get that part working? ^^
See the "Cookies" section in gallery-dl's Readme file (https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl?.....v-file#cookies) and the example config which contains a configuration for FA (https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/......conf#L97-L106).