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gallery-dl
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*gallery-dl* is a small command-line tool to download images and entire image galleries from several image hosting platforms.
Installation
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You can install *gallery-dl* with pip:
.. code :: bash
$ pip install gallery-dl
or directly from github:
.. code :: bash
$ git clone https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl.git
$ cd gallery-dl
$ python3 setup.py install
Supported Sites
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* images (and ugoira) per artist from pixiv, nijie, deviantart
* images per tag from booru-like sites (danbooru, gelbooru, chan.sankakucomplex, yandere, konachan, safebooru, 3dbooru, e621)
* manga chapters from batoto, kissmanga, mangapanda, mangareader, mangastream, powermanga, redhawkscans
* galleries from exhentai, nhentai, hitomi
* images and videos from threads on Futaba Channel-like boards (4chan, 8chan)
Usage
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.. code :: bash
$ gallery-dl URL [URL...]
Certain supported sites require authentication to download images from. This currently includes pixiv, exhentai, gelbooru and nijie. To make these sites accessible to *gallery-dl* you need to specify the necessary login credentials or cookies in the configuration files.
Configuration
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Configuration files for gallery-dl use a JSON-based file format. For a (more or less) complete example, see gallery-dl.conf_.
*gallery-dl* searches for configuration files in the following paths:
* /etc/gallery-dl.conf
* ~/.config/gallery/config.json
* ~/.config/gallery-dl.conf
* ~/.gallery-dl.conf
Values in later configuration files will override previous ones.
.. _gallery-dl.conf: https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/gallery-dl.conf
