gallery-dl is a command-line program to download image-galleries and -collections from several image hosting sites (see Supported Sites). It is a cross-platform tool with many configuration options and powerful filenaming capabilities.

• Python 3.4+
• Requests

• FFmpeg: Pixiv Ugoira to WebM conversion
• youtube-dl: Video downloads

The stable releases of gallery-dl are distributed on PyPI and can be easily installed or upgraded using pip:

$ python3 -m pip install --upgrade gallery-dl

Installing the latest dev-version directly from GitHub can be done with pip as well:

$ python3 -m pip install --upgrade https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/archive/master.tar.gz

Note: Windows users should use py -3 instead of python3.

$ python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

Get the code by either

• Downloading a stable or dev archive and unpacking it
• Or via git clone https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl.git

Navigate into the respective directory and run the setup.py file.

$ wget https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/archive/master.tar.gz
$ tar -xf master.tar.gz
# or
$ git clone https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl.git

$ cd gallery-dl*
$ python3 setup.py install

Download a standalone executable file, put it into your PATH, and run it inside a command prompt (like cmd.exe).

• Windows
• Linux

These executables include a Python 3.8 interpreter and all required Python packages.

Linux users that are using a distro that is supported by Snapd can install gallery-dl from the Snap Store:

$ snap install gallery-dl

To use gallery-dl simply call it with the URLs you wish to download images from:

$ gallery-dl [OPTION]... URL...

See also gallery-dl --help.

Download images; in this case from danbooru via tag search for 'bonocho':

$ gallery-dl "https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts?tags=bonocho"

Get the direct URL of an image from a site that requires authentication:

$ gallery-dl -g -u "<username>" -p "<password>" "https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/seiga/im3211703"

$ gallery-dl "r:https://pastebin.com/raw/FLwrCYsT"

Configuration files for gallery-dl use a JSON-based file format.

gallery-dl searches for configuration files in the following places:

(%USERPROFILE% usually refers to the user's home directory, i.e. C:\Users\<username>\)

Values in later configuration files will override previous ones.

Some extractors require you to provide valid login-credentials in the form of a username & password pair. This is necessary for pixiv, nijie, and seiga and optional (but strongly recommended) for danbooru, exhentai, idolcomplex, instagram, luscious, sankaku, tsumino, and twitter.

You can set the necessary information in your configuration file (cf. gallery-dl.conf)

{
    "extractor": {
        ...
        "pixiv": {
            "username": "<username>",
            "password": "<password>"
        }
        ...
    }
}

or you can provide them directly via the -u/--username and -p/--password or via the -o/--option command-line options

$ gallery-dl -u <username> -p <password> URL
$ gallery-dl -o username=<username> -o password=<password> URL

gallery-dl supports user authentication via OAuth for deviantart, flickr, reddit, smugmug and tumblr. This is entirely optional, but grants gallery-dl the ability to issue requests on your account's behalf and enables it to access resources which would otherwise be unavailable to a public user.

To link your account to gallery-dl, start by invoking it with oauth:<site-name> as an argument. For example:

$ gallery-dl oauth:flickr

You will be sent to the site's authorization page and asked to grant read access to gallery-dl. Authorize it and you will be shown one or more "tokens", which should be added to your configuration file.