63 thoughts on “pixiv downloader 20130511”

  1. Hey nandaka,
    I think pixiv updated something, but all the thumbnails for manga submissions are being downloaded along with the full-size images. Quite annoying…

  2. I have a problem: I was using an old version, saw that only small manga pages were downloading, deleted the folder, downloaded this version and now only avatar image downloads, while the rest says ‘already downloaded’. This behaviour continue even if I delete both the downloaded files and the log, thus leaving no trace of downloaded images in the system. On a more minor issue, avatar downloads despite downloadavatar being set to False. What can I do to resolve this?

    1. Go into “manage database” (option d) then chose option c: clean up database.

        1. Yep, that helped. Is this the intended behaviour?

          Also, avatars still download. 🙁

          1. Yap, it will always check the avatar for the 1st page.

            Set downloadavatar = False to disable avatar download.

          2. downloadavatar _is_ set to false. It was working correctly in the old version, but downloading the new one (with old config) broke it.

  3. Pixiv’s devs have altered their Manga mode pages again. The changes seem to block the Utility from downloading the ‘big’ images, returning a 404 when it tries to grab them. It can still download the small images on the page, however.

    Also, would it be possible to have an option where, when the utility finds a file with the same name as an existing file but a different size, it renames the new version of the file instead of overwriting the old version? I’ve been running into that while updating existing grabs, and I’d kinda like to see what the differences between the image’s versions are.

    1. I must correct myself. It *is* downloading the ‘big’ images normally, but it is also trying to grab the ‘big’ images for the *mobile* site. It’s 404ing on those, and grabbing the small 128×128 images as well as the normal ‘big’ versions.

  5. Almost forgot. Does r18mode incluges R18G tag in addition to just R18? If not, could it be added? Like False, True, R18G ?

  6. Greetings! I finally got tired of manually batch downloading (yes I am that lazy) so I wrote a command line program to pass parameters from the URL of my browser to the PixivUtil2.exe so I could download images and batch artists right from the browser…. however it’s downloading all the images into the browser’s directory:
    http://oi40.tinypic.com/2pr5zyq.jpg

    Here is my config.ini settings:

    [Settings]
    proxyaddress =
    useproxy = False
    useragent = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Unix i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1
    debughttp = False
    userobots = True
    filenameformat = %member_id%%image_id% – %artist% (%member_id%) – %title%
    filenamemangaformat = %member_id%%image_id% – %artist% (%member_id%) – %title% %page_index%
    timeout = 60
    uselist = False
    processfromdb = True
    overwrite = False
    tagsseparator = ,
    daylastupdated = 7
    rootdirectory = .
    retry = 3
    retrywait = 5
    createdownloadlists = False
    downloadlistdirectory = .
    irfanviewpath = C:Program Files (x86)IrfanView
    startirfanview = False
    startirfanslide = False
    alwayscheckfilesize = False
    checkupdatedlimit = 0
    downloadavatar = True
    createmangadir = False
    usetagsasdir = False
    useblacklisttags = False
    usesuppresstags = False
    tagslimit = -1
    writeimageinfo = False
    datediff = 0

  7. Hello, I’m sorry to be a bother. I adore your pixiv batch downloader but I have a question. Is it possible to download a member’s bookmarks by tag? Thank you a lot in advance. I tried looking it in the readme file but couldn’t find it. If I’m misreading something please let me know. Thank you again for everything!

      1. Ahh, ok that clears that up! Thanks for the reply and cheers for the good work!

  8. Sometimes theres a folder.pixiv that gets left behind when I close the program suddenly.
    This error occurs when the program encounters it:

    2013-06-15 01:01:59,858 – PixivUtil20130511 – ERROR – Error at downloadImage(): (, WindowsError(183, ‘Cannot create a file when that file already exists’), )(http://i1.pixiv.net/img13/profile/nmtk/2064478.jpg)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “PixivUtil2.py”, line 175, in downloadImage
    WindowsError: [Error 183] Cannot create a file when that file already exists
    2013-06-15 01:02:14,890 – PixivUtil20130511 – ERROR – Error at downloadImage(): (, WindowsError(183, ‘Cannot create a file when that file already exists’), )(http://i1.pixiv.net/img13/profile/nmtk/2064478.jpg)
    Traceback (most recent call last):

    Can you get it to attempt to remove the offending .pixiv?

    1. Nope, most likely there is still a lot of changes. I’ll wait until they release the new look to all user.

    1. Weird, it is working in my side. Can you open the url on browser? What is the configured language? This application only support English and Japanese.

        1. Hmm, that’s weird. The error is because it cannot find the elements from the page for the image list.

          Can you clear the cookie in Authentication section in config.ini and upload the saved pages from your browser?

          I’ll update the application to do auto dump the page if encounter AttributeError.

  11. Is pixiv just really slow lately for everyone or is it just me? I recently moved and so I have a new ISP and i’m getting download speeds low as 10kbps and can’t get above 100kbps. Before I moved I was ranging from 150-400kbps which was still nowhere near my actual speed but was way better. The downloads also seem to stall a lot more now too.

    Just wondering if it’s an issue with Pixiv Downloader, my ISP or everyone.

      1. I had this problem for a week. I discovered that pixiv downloader went through privoxy (a local filtering proxy) for whatever reason.
        Disabling the proxy (via ie settings) and everything went normal again (100KB/s to 400KB/s).

        The chance it helps you are minimal but who knows…

  12. When I try to log in, I get the message: “To prove you’re human, type in the words below.” I guess pixiv has some kind of CAPTCHA verification now? Is there anything that can be done about this?

  13. I moved my folder recently, and after a db cleaning it seems the path is stocked as absolute and not relative (even if my config is relative, i.e. rootdirectory = ..Pixiv).
    As my 90Mo db.sqlite vanished in the process, is it possible to change that, or is it a limitation of sqlite?

    1. Recovering the db? Not possible.

      Storing the file path using relative path into the db? Need to check, cos currently the filename will be resolved to absolute path when it is being sanitized to avoid error.

      1. If it is not possible, maybe an option to change manually the path would do.

  16. i think file path config is some changed.

    H:%artist% (%member_id%)%urlFilename% – %title%

    former config is working alright to download ‘Dirvenumber H’ but now,

    pixivutil20130511..H_%artist% (%member_id%)%urlFilename% – %title%

    download path is like this ‘H_ Folder under pixivutil path’ not a ‘H Drive’

    how can i use to drivepath Evironment Variables ?

      2. :c hmm i set the parameter
        rootdirectory = H:

        but still not working. same path either.

        1. Remove H: from filenameformat/filenamemangaformat. If not working, upload your config.ini to pastebin.

          1. oh, it’s working.

            i didn’t notice rootdirectory parameter is already there. ;s
            (cause i input same two parameters)

            thx for keep watching it.

        1. Weird, as I can use it in my pc. From the error message, it said somehow the connection is interrupted from your pc. Maybe you AntiVirus/firewall closes the connection?

          Can you try to delete the config.ini (backup first)? Or try it on another pc?

          1. Oh i tried to clear the cookies and now it manages to do login. 😀

            still downloading real slow though but at least now it could download as it’s supposed to. I believe my internet is pretty decent, still wondering why it couldn’t be faster. Btw thanks for the fast replies… 😀

    1. Try to open the error page and check what is the content there. Usually you can do it by downloading it manually using option 2.

    1. Please give more information! I’ve tested in my pc and it is working correctly.
      Ensure you can login to the pixiv website itself. If it still fail, try to set usessl=True in config.ini and/or try to change your password to simpler form for testing purpose.
      If it still fail, upload your config.ini & pixivutil.log to pastebin/mediafire.

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