Imageboard-DL

Image downloader/scraper for various imageboards and image albums written in Python.

Requirements

• Python 3.4+

Installing

Git

• git clone https://github.com/sixem/imageboard-dl
• cd imageboard-dl
• python3 setup.py install

Install From PyPI (Python Package Index)

Using Pip

• pip3 install imageboard-dl

Using EasyInstall

• easy_install3 imageboard-dl

Usage

imageboard-dl [-h] [-v] [-x] [-t] [-s] [-p PATH] [-d DIRECTORY] URL(s)

• -h : Show a help dialog.
• -v : Print the current version.
• -p : Where to download to. By default it will use your current working directory.
• -x : Disables saving files into separate folders (see -d).
• -d: Name of a separate folder for saving files into (this folder will be created inside the current path, default is a unique name fetched from the URL). This feature can be disabled by using -x, if so the files will be downloaded directly into the selected path instead.
• -t : Maximum amount of concurrent threads (default is 32).
• -s : Amount of time to sleep before each request in seconds.
• --debug : Print some (very) basic debugging information.

Basic usage example:

imageboard-dl https://boards.4chan.org/b/thread/1292929292 -p "/home/user/Downloads/"

This will store your scraped files here:

/home/user/Downloads/4chan-t1292929292