20 thoughts on “pixiv downloader 20121208”

  1. This is such a great program that saves a lot of time. Unfortunately I had to reinstall Windows recently, and now no version of the program works. I get the message, “This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.” The language for non-unicode programs is set to Japanese and there isn’t much to install that I remember. Could there be something else I’m missing? Some component like Microsoft .NET framework? (I’ve got 2.0 and 4 installed)

      2. Nevermind! It was either unselecting and reselecting the Japanese language settings, or some late windows updates that fixed it (though I already had service packs 2, 3, and the necessary languages installed, in theory). Now the program works like always. 絵を見る時間があるって最高！

  2. Ok, I posted in an older one. Woops. -_-;
    And I wasn’t paying attention and thought this was the same as the Ank Pixiv Downloader for Firefox.

    I’ve tried this out, and, neat that it can DL full galleries! But… seems a bit difficult to use, and doesn’t like Japanese text? (Sorry, I’ve not really looked through info yet).

    I have to wonder though, is it possible to have it download to this layout:
    ‘?memoized-name?'[?pixiv-id?](?member-id?)’?memoized-name?’ – ?title? (?illust-id?)?R-18?
    That’s how I have my Ank Pixiv Downloader set (well, not with the R-18 tag… they haven’t added that as far as I’ve found).

    1. 1: A setting for downloading R-18 images into an optional sub-folder would be useful…

      Add %R-18% in the filename format, this will create subdir called R-18, example: %member_token% (%member_id%)%R-18%%urlFilename% - %title%.

      doesn’t like Japanese text?

      This should only affect the display, the filename should have proper kanji. If you want to show it, you need to set you pc locale to Japanese.

      ‘?memoized-name?’

      I don’t have that meta-tag, check the readme first 😀

    1. yap, I think they change the structure of the page. I’ll update the exe in weekends, you can get the latest source code in github.

  4. I’ve always wondered if there’s specific documentation for the command line usage so I can update my folders accordingly.

    I like to download some files en-mass by member or by tag. I can not seem to save items, however by “%artist%” as the sub-folder or just the tag I’m using to search as a sub-folder. Whenever I download by tag, I want all items in the tag sub-folder, and whenever I download by artist, I want it downloaded in the artist’s sub-folder.

    Currently, I save everything to the folder “pixiv” and rename it manually after downloading and rename it back to “pixiv” whenever I wish to update that folder.

    1. I’ve always wondered if there’s specific documentation for the command line usage so I can update my folders accordingly.

      See on readme.txt.

      I like to download some files en-mass by member or by tag. I can not seem to save items, however by “%artist%” as the sub-folder or just the tag I’m using to search as a sub-folder. Whenever I download by tag, I want all items in the tag sub-folder, and whenever I download by artist, I want it downloaded in the artist’s sub-folder.

      It is not supported. If you want to do that, I recommend you to create a copy the application with different setting for the save folder in config.ini.

      1. “%artist%” does not work with folder names, and there is no file-name variable, and as far as I know “%tags%” includes all tags used, not just the one I used to search.

        1. Not sure what do you mean by %artist% doesn’t work? I’m using %member_token% (%member_id%)%R-18%%urlFilename% - %title% for the naming and it is work.

          There is no meta-format for search tag.

      2. Using “%artist%” will literally create a folder called “%artist%”. Screenshot: http://i50.tinypic.com/34nr02s.jpg

        Root directory I am using: ..pixivdownloads%artist%
        Filename format: %image_id% – %artist% (%member_id%) – %title%
        %artist% works fine in the filename format.

        1. The meta-format (%artist%, etc) only works in filenameFormat/filenameMangaFormat. The rootDirectory options doesn’t do any parsing of the format.

          If you want to use %artist% as the directory, you can append to denotes subdir, for example in your case you use rootDirectory=..pixivdownloads and filenameFormat=%artist%%image_id% – %artist% (%member_id%) – %title%.

  5. Hmm, actually is there is a way to choose to resume or start from specific page after choosing option 6? Or would that require tinkering with the actual source code?

  6. Is there a way to tell the program to start downloading from a certain page in my own bookmarked images? I have a lot of bookmarks and it’d be nice if I could tell it to start from page 120 instead of having it import all of the previous pages again. (Knowing my luck it’s something inane and easy I overlooked in the config file)

    1. There is a command line option for Download from tags list, for example: PixivUtil2 -s 7 tags.txt 5, but not for list.txt (option 4)

      The other one is by using Download new illust from bookmark, it have optional input for start/end page, for example: PixivUtil2 -s 8 5 10

      1. Thank you for the quick reply. The second option was the one I was looking for. I have one last question if you don’t mind. What files should I replace if I want to upgrade from a previous version to this newest one?

        1. Maybe you want to backup the configuration (config.ini) and database (db.sqlite), other files can be overwritten by the new files.

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