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# FurAffinity Downloader
**furaffinity-dl** is a bash script for batch downloading of galleries and favorites from furaffinity.net users.
I've written it for preservation of culture, to counter the people nuking their galleries every once a while.
# FurAffinity Downloader - Next Gen
**furaffinity-dl-ng** is a bash script for batch downloading of galleries and favorites from furaffinity.net users.
It was written for preservation of culture, to counter the people nuking their galleries every once a while.
Supports all known submission types: images, texts and audio. Sorts downloaded files in chronological order.
I'd like to eventually expand it to download the description pages as well. Patches are welcome!
Supports all known submission types: images, texts and audio.
## Requirements
Coreutils, bash and wget are the only dependencies. However if you want to embed metadata into files you will need eyed3 and exiftool
Coreutils, bash and wget are the only dependencies.
furaffinity-dl was tested only on Linux. It should also work on Mac and BSDs.
Windows users can get it to work via Microsoft's "BASH on Windows". Cygwin is not supported.
furaffinity-dl-ng was tested only on Linux. It should also work on Mac and BSDs.
Windows users can get it to work via Microsoft's [WSL](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10). Cygwin is not supported.
## Usage
`furaffinity-dl section/username`
Make it executable with
`chmod +x faraffinity-dl-ng`
And run it with
`./faraffinity-dl-ng section/username`
All files from the given section and user will be downloaded to the current directory.
### Examples
`furaffinity-dl gallery/kodardragon`
`./faraffinity-dl-ng gallery/mylafox`
`furaffinity-dl scraps/---`
`./faraffinity-dl-ng -o=myla gallery/mylafox`
`furaffinity-dl favorites/kivuli`
`./faraffinity-dl-ng --out=koul favorites/koul`
You can also log in to download restricted content. To do that, log in to FurAffinity in your web browser, export cookies to a file from your web browser in Netscape format (there are extensions to do that [for Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ganbo/) and [for Chrome/Vivaldi](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg)) and pass them to the script as a second parameter, like this:
`furaffinity-dl gallery/gonnaneedabiggerboat /path/to/your/cookies.txt`
## TODO
* Download author's description of the artwork, and ideally the entire description page along with user comments
* Download user bio, post tags and ideally user comments
## Disclaimer
It is your own responsibility to check whether batch downloading is allowed by FurAffinity terms of service and to abide by them. For further disclaimers see LICENSE.
## See also
There is a similar downloader for VCL art library, see https://github.com/Shnatsel/vcl-dl