Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites
gallery-dl is a command-line program
to download image galleries and collections
from several image hosting sites
(see Supported Sites <https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/supportedsites.md>).
It is a cross-platform tool
with many configuration options <https://gdl-org.github.io/docs/configuration.html>
and powerful filenaming capabilities <https://gdl-org.github.io/docs/formatting.html>__.
|pypi| |build|
.. contents::
ytdl integration--cookies-from-browserThe stable releases of gallery-dl are distributed on PyPI_ and can be easily installed or upgraded using pip_:
.. code:: bash
python3 -m pip install -U gallery-dl
Installing the latest dev version directly from GitHub can be done with pip_ as well:
.. code:: bash
python3 -m pip install -U --force-reinstall --no-deps https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/archive/master.tar.gz
Omit :code:--no-deps if Requests_ hasn't been installed yet.
Note: Windows users should use :code:py -3 instead of :code:python3.
It is advised to use the latest version of pip_,
including the essential packages :code:setuptools and :code:wheel.
To ensure these packages are up-to-date, run
.. code:: bash
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
Prebuilt executable files with a Python interpreter and required Python packages included are available for
Windows <https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/releases/download/v1.28.1/gallery-dl.exe>__
(Requires Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package (x86) <https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe>__)Linux <https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/releases/download/v1.28.1/gallery-dl.bin>__| Executables build from the latest commit can be found at | https://github.com/gdl-org/builds/releases
Linux users that are using a distro that is supported by Snapd_ can install gallery-dl from the Snap Store:
.. code:: bash
snap install gallery-dl
Windows users that have Chocolatey_ installed can install gallery-dl from the Chocolatey Community Packages repository:
.. code:: powershell
choco install gallery-dl
gallery-dl is also available in the Scoop_ "main" bucket for Windows users:
.. code:: powershell
scoop install gallery-dl
For macOS or Linux users using Homebrew:
.. code:: bash
brew install gallery-dl
For macOS users with MacPorts:
.. code:: bash
sudo port install gallery-dl
Using the Dockerfile in the repository:
.. code:: bash
git clone https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl.git
cd gallery-dl/
docker build -t gallery-dl:latest .
Pulling image from Docker Hub <https://hub.docker.com/r/mikf123/gallery-dl>__:
.. code:: bash
docker pull mikf123/gallery-dl
docker tag mikf123/gallery-dl gallery-dl
Pulling image from GitHub Container Registry <https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/pkgs/container/gallery-dl>__:
.. code:: bash
docker pull ghcr.io/mikf/gallery-dl
docker tag ghcr.io/mikf/gallery-dl gallery-dl
To run the container you will probably want to attach some directories on the host so that the config file and downloads can persist across runs.
Make sure to either download the example config file reference in the repo and place it in the mounted volume location or touch an empty file there.
If you gave the container a different tag or are using podman then make sure you adjust. Run docker image ls to check the name if you are not sure.
This will remove the container after every use so you will always have a fresh environment for it to run. If you setup a ci-cd pipeline to autobuild the container you can also add a --pull=newer flag so that when you run it docker will check to see if there is a newer container and download it before running.
.. code:: bash
docker run --rm -v $HOME/Downloads/:/gallery-dl/ -v $HOME/.config/gallery-dl/gallery-dl.conf:/etc/gallery-dl.conf -it gallery-dl:latest
You can also add an alias to your shell for "gallery-dl" or create a simple bash script and drop it somewhere in your $PATH to act as a shim for this command.
To use gallery-dl simply call it with the URLs you wish to download images from:
.. code:: bash
gallery-dl [OPTIONS]... URLS...
Use :code:gallery-dl --help or see <https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/options.md>__
for a full list of all command-line options.
Download images; in this case from danbooru via tag search for 'bonocho':
.. code:: bash
gallery-dl "https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts?tags=bonocho"
Get the direct URL of an image from a site supporting authentication with username & password:
.. code:: bash
gallery-dl -g -u "<username>" -p "<password>" "https://twitter.com/i/web/status/604341487988576256"
Filter manga chapters by chapter number and language:
.. code:: bash
gallery-dl --chapter-filter "10 <= chapter < 20" -o "lang=fr" "https://mangadex.org/title/59793dd0-a2d8-41a2-9758-8197287a8539"
| Search a remote resource for URLs and download images from them: | (URLs for which no extractor can be found will be silently ignored)
.. code:: bash
gallery-dl "r:https://pastebin.com/raw/FLwrCYsT"
If a site's address is nonstandard for its extractor, you can prefix the URL with the extractor's name to force the use of a specific extractor:
.. code:: bash
gallery-dl "tumblr:https://sometumblrblog.example"
Configuration files for gallery-dl use a JSON-based file format.
A list of all available configuration options and their descriptions
can be found at <https://gdl-org.github.io/docs/configuration.html>__.
| For a default configuration file with available options set to their
default values, see <https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/gallery-dl.conf>__.
| For a commented example with more involved settings and option usage,
see <https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/gallery-dl-example.conf>__.
gallery-dl searches for configuration files in the following places:
Windows:
* %APPDATA%\gallery-dl\config.json
* %USERPROFILE%\gallery-dl\config.json
* %USERPROFILE%\gallery-dl.conf
(``%USERPROFILE%`` usually refers to a user's home directory,
i.e. ``C:\Users\<username>\``)
Linux, macOS, etc.:
* /etc/gallery-dl.conf
* ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/gallery-dl/config.json
* ${HOME}/.config/gallery-dl/config.json
* ${HOME}/.gallery-dl.conf
When run as executable <Standalone Executable_>__,
gallery-dl will also look for a gallery-dl.conf file
in the same directory as said executable.
It is possible to use more than one configuration file at a time. In this case, any values from files after the first will get merged into the already loaded settings and potentially override previous ones.
Some extractors require you to provide valid login credentials in the form of
a username & password pair. This is necessary for
nijie
and optional for
aryion,
danbooru,
e621,
exhentai,
idolcomplex,
imgbb,
inkbunny,
mangadex,
mangoxo,
pillowfort,
sankaku,
subscribestar,
tapas,
tsumino,
twitter,
and zerochan.
You can set the necessary information in your
configuration file <Configuration_>__
.. code:: json
{
"extractor": {
"twitter": {
"username": "<username>",
"password": "<password>"
}
}
}
or you can provide them directly via the
:code:-u/--username and :code:-p/--password or via the
:code:-o/--option command-line options
.. code:: bash
gallery-dl -u "<username>" -p "<password>" "URL"
gallery-dl -o "username=<username>" -o "password=<password>" "URL"
For sites where login with username & password is not possible due to CAPTCHA or similar, or has not been implemented yet, you can use the cookies from a browser login session and input them into gallery-dl.
This can be done via the
cookies <https://gdl-org.github.io/docs/configuration.html#extractor-cookies>__
option in your configuration file by specifying
| the path to a Mozilla/Netscape format cookies.txt file exported by a browser addon
| (e.g. Get cookies.txt LOCALLY <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/get-cookiestxt-locally/cclelndahbckbenkjhflpdbgdldlbecc>__ for Chrome,
Export Cookies <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies-txt/>__ for Firefox)
| a list of name-value pairs gathered from your browser's web developer tools
| (in Chrome <https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/storage/cookies>,
in Firefox <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Storage_Inspector>)
| the name of a browser to extract cookies from | (supported browsers are Chromium-based ones, Firefox, and Safari)
For example:
.. code:: json
{
"extractor": {
"instagram": {
"cookies": "$HOME/path/to/cookies.txt"
},
"patreon": {
"cookies": {
"session_id": "K1T57EKu19TR49C51CDjOJoXNQLF7VbdVOiBrC9ye0a"
}
},
"twitter": {
"cookies": ["firefox"]
}
}
}
| You can also specify a cookies.txt file with
the :code:--cookies command-line option
| or a browser to extract cookies from with :code:--cookies-from-browser:
.. code:: bash
gallery-dl --cookies "$HOME/path/to/cookies.txt" "URL"
gallery-dl --cookies-from-browser firefox "URL"
gallery-dl supports user authentication via OAuth_ for some extractors.
This is necessary for
pixiv
and optional for
deviantart,
flickr,
reddit,
smugmug,
tumblr,
and mastodon instances.
Linking your account to gallery-dl grants it the ability to issue requests on your account's behalf and enables it to access resources which would otherwise be unavailable to a public user.
To do so, start by invoking it with oauth:<sitename> as an argument.
For example:
.. code:: bash
gallery-dl oauth:flickr
You will be sent to the site's authorization page and asked to grant read access to gallery-dl. Authorize it and you will be shown one or more "tokens", which should be added to your configuration file.
To authenticate with a mastodon instance, run gallery-dl with
oauth:mastodon:<instance> as argument. For example:
.. code:: bash
gallery-dl oauth:mastodon:pawoo.net
gallery-dl oauth:mastodon:https://mastodon.social/
.. _Python: https://www.python.org/downloads/ .. _PyPI: https://pypi.org/ .. _pip: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/ .. _Requests: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/ .. _FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ .. _mkvmerge: https://www.matroska.org/downloads/mkvtoolnix.html .. _yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp .. _youtube-dl: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ .. _PySocks: https://pypi.org/project/PySocks/ .. _brotli: https://github.com/google/brotli .. _brotlicffi: https://github.com/python-hyper/brotlicffi .. _zstandard: https://github.com/indygreg/python-zstandard .. _PyYAML: https://pyyaml.org/ .. _toml: https://pypi.org/project/toml/ .. _SecretStorage: https://pypi.org/project/SecretStorage/ .. _Snapd: https://docs.snapcraft.io/installing-snapd .. _OAuth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth .. _Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/install .. _Scoop: https://scoop.sh
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Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites
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