trapster77 said in forum #437711:
but what is the point of posting them to danbooru? they are viewable on that website, right? which means the only benefit of putting them on danbooru over saving them to your computer as a backup is the ability to tag them. you are going to tag those posts, right? you're going to tag 71632 posts. that sounds far more effort than copying a link.
This isn't meant to be a page that users should view directly in their browser. Most likely, these URLs were used by the game to download or display images within the game itself (I don't know, I never played, and the game no longer exists). Players likely simply dug up these links.
Therefore, there's no interface for viewing these images. An interface that, if it existed, would probably allow for sorting these images somehow—either by character or song. It wouldn't show gaps and possibly duplicates.
I found these images myself while browsing through deleted posts. I came across post #11200675 and noticed that it was pretty, but its source was tagged "bad_link." This image was likely found on Pinterest:
https://mx.pinterest.com/pin/1012887772460060842/
After further searching, I found more leads: the game it came from. A game that no longer exists, but whose images are still available. Hard to find, but available.
Isn't this site partly about sharing hard-to-find images?
trapster77 said in forum #437713:
because artists can't tag. pixiv has like 3 different tags for the same character. some artists decide on which social media they're going to post something based on what they ate for breakfast that day. they post a jpg on twitter, a png on pixiv and a transparent png on some music site nobody in the west has ever heard about. the doujin covers aren't even in their portfolio. their fc2 blogs aren't even online anymore.
btw what are you going to do for the source of the posts? because it would be best to have the source be what page the image is found but since you're going to the image links you probably don't know what those urls are. you could upload the urls and then you get a lot of sources that go straight to the .png files.
the correct way to do this would be to make a list of all .png files you want to upload using a script then use a separate script to crawl the whole website to figure out which pages the images came from and which images aren't embedded in any page (this happens sometimes). you're still going to have to manually input those source urls in the end and you're still going to need to tag it.
i still want to know what you're going to do about the tags. unless you mintag everything it's going to be a tremendous amount of work...
Such a page doesn't exist. These are illustrations from a game that has since ceased to exist.
The direct links to the images also don't have tags. Especially considering that these links weren't intended to be public.
My plan is to leave the direct source for the images. As for tags, I probably won't post everything that's available. Honestly, I'm not that big of a Vocaloid fan. However, even 100 out of a potential 100,000 is more than 0.
trapster77 said in forum #437718:
i agree. i just thought it was an actual website when they said website.
i wrote a quick script to check them. just script.py > urls.txt to use it.
Downloading these images to my computer isn't difficult. What's complicated is making them retain their links when posted on Danbooru. I don't want to have to fix the filenames and correct them to URLs manually when tagging.
