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.

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!

Requirements

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 probably get it to work via Cygwin or Microsoft's "BASH on Windows", but running a virtual machine with Linux might be simpler.

Usage

furaffinity-dl section/username

All files from the given section and user will be downloaded to the current directory.

Examples

furaffinity-dl gallery/kodardragon

furaffinity-dl scraps/---

furaffinity-dl favorites/kivuli

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 and for Chrome/Vivaldi) 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

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