DeviantArt

DeviantART
URL	http://deviantart.com/
Status	Online!
Archiving status	Not saved yet
Archiving type	Unknown
IRC channel	#devianttart (on hackint)

Currently there's few good solutions for backing up deviantarts, as the rest fail to build or fail to interact with the site, or just fail. Currently the best is “deviantart-gallery-downloader” by xofred.

This script will get full-sized images, whereas right-clicking hasn't in the past. It will also check to see if things have already been ripped, and rip any new changes to reduce traffic.

Things needed

• git
• gem (ruby-dev)
• mechanize
• A disposable dA account with adult images turned on (to make sure all images are gotten)

Getting the software and dependencies

sudo apt-get install git ruby-dev

sudo gem update

sudo gem install mechanize 

git clone https://github.com/xofred/deviantart-gallery-downloader.git

cd deviantart-gallery-downloader

Usage

To rip an entire main gallery with no organization of the images on an album basis, run:

ruby with_login.rb LOGIN-EMAIL PASSWORD "http://USERID.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=/"

That "/?catpath=/" on the end is important because it grabs all the images where as with the default gallery URL it does not.

For an album:

ruby with_login.rb LOGIN-EMAIL PASSWORD http://USERID.deviantart.com/ALBUM_NAME

Caveats

No SSL auth, this could be done with a slight re-jiggering of code and a dependency on some ruby-SSL dep to offload that work.

User creds are in the process name being run. Use with caution on a multi-user system. A simple ps -A will reveal your creds.

• Use a burner account until this script is made a bit more secure*

Gallery

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  DeviantART's home page in 2017