Ability to download all my favs with 1-click

I would like to be able to login and click a button which then opens up a "save to...." box which will allow me to save everything that I've added to my favourites list onto my PC.

I would be more than happy to upgrade my account for such a feature.

Use the program in forum #16341 with the tag fav:avp2501 and you should be set.

Looks interesting but isn't there a less complicated way to do this?

Its not complicated.

No, there's not.

I would think given that many of us have thousands of favs, something like this would be bandwidth-intensive.

How do you even use this?

just copy and paste into internet explorer or something?

avp2501 said:
just copy and paste into internet explorer or something?

Oh, dear.

Following the step-by-step directions in forum #16374 would probably be best.

Granola said:

Its not complicated.

glasnost said:

Oh, dear.

Come on, guys. You should be aware that there are still people walking this earth for whom reading a whole book on, say, military history, gardening, or Dutch grammar feels less complicated than understanding ten lines of a given programming language.

Also, many of us are reluctant to install new programs if there is no simple guide for complete uninstallment. Generally, it would feel secure to know what parts of each new program go where exactly on my computer, not just grab something like, "Gee, this is new, I'm installing this!"

However, I do not expect there to be an easy way to do any given task. I take Danbooru as a privilege and feel happy for every feature intuitive enough for my own use.

There do happen to be step by step instructions and example files in the god damn thing.

I or glasnost are not complaining about the lack of knowledge of a user (I don't understand anything about perl or any other programming language AT ALL), but the lack of effort into following directions.

Don't want to install perl? Fine, guess you'll have to do shit the old way.

Magus said:
I would think given that many of us have thousands of favs, something like this would be bandwidth-intensive.

I did ask albert if it was okay to do this, he seemed to be okay with it. If anything you can save a bit of bandwith because the script skips existing files.

Katajanmarja said:
However, I do not expect there to be an easy way to do any given task.

Good thing the script is pretty easy to use.

I think you are being needlessly impolite.

For comparison, let us think I would need to build a simple Meccano machine for some purpose, following exact instructions. Since I can build Lego, I suppose Meccano would not be impossible for me to master. Still, as I have never ever built anything of Meccano parts and they do look confusing, I would stop to think twice: is this really the moment when I am going to learn the very basics of this thing, or is there some easier (= more familiar) way around it, such as buying a factory-made machine?

Yep, I am going to do shit the old way for now. The day I really feel the need to save a large amount of faves, I might very well get acquainted with Perl and start using Perl scripts. But I can always hope somebody builds a "download sets" feature into Danbooru before that.

I wonder what is so irritating about this attitude. Different people just find different things difficult or even scary at first glance, is how I see it.

I generally respect your views quite a bit, Granola and Glasnost. My intention here is not to start a flame war but to build mutual understanding, if possible.

Katajanmarja is right. The initial request was a request for a reasonable and potentially useful feature. There may be any number of reasons why adding such a feature can't be done (bandwidth, low priority for albert, etc), but the fact that there's some other way - which will *not* always be as intuitive for everyone as those familiar with it think - isn't the best, or even a very good, reason.

In moe.imouto you can download entire pools with one click, and even choose if you want the samples or the originals. If the changes discussed in the Danbooru 2 thread are implemented, something like that could probably work with tags and favs too.

Bandwidth is more of an issue here of course, but adding that feature for priv+ users only wouldn't strain the server as much, and might provide some extra incentive for people to pay those 20 bucks and cover the extra costs.

Fred1515 said: and might provide some extra incentive for people to pay those 20 bucks and cover the extra costs.

Yeah, let's not forget that. The OP was willing to pay to get it, which is something we should be encouraging! Albert has to pay for that new server somehow...

jxh2154 said:
OP was willing to pay to get it, which is something we should be encouraging!

Speaking of which (if I may ask here rather than in a new thread), how high is the actual proportion of users who bought their upgrade (as opposed to those who were chosen by higher users)?

I'm willing to upgrade too (I end up really missing the visible favorites now, and which can't be bypassed with gelbooru like the rest), and I don't mind it regarding of the amount of efforts made for the site.
What bugs me is users' profiles showing invites. It wrongly gives the impression that none of the privileged users purchased their upgrade.
This is disturbing. I've no idea how many other members may have noticed this and feel the same way, but being given the feeling that no one paid for their upgrade isn't really engaging to buy your own ("if no one does why me then?" and such).
And it's not as if I could overlook that hoping to get invited either, regarding how little I'll ever contribute besides tagging and suggestions.

Cyberia-Mix said: This is disturbing. I've no idea how many other members may have noticed this and feel the same way, but being given the feeling that no one paid for their upgrade isn't really engaging to buy your own ("if no one does why me then?" and such).

Not sure I understand the problem. Does it... really matter at all? You pay and get the upgrade, who cares how others got there?

Anyway, if someone paid to upgrade, they'd be listed as "invited" by albert I imagine. Although not everyone invited by albert is one of the people who paid of course.

Cyberia-Mix said:
What bugs me is users' profiles showing invites. It wrongly gives the impression that none of the privileged users purchased their upgrade.

I thought the whole point of the Privileged/Contributor dichotomy was to differentiate between people who purchased the updated and people who were invited.

Katajanmarja said:
Come on, guys. You should be aware that there are still people walking this earth for whom reading a whole book on, say, military history, gardening, or Dutch grammar feels less complicated than understanding ten lines of a given programming language.

Do the instructions in forum #16374 really require specialized knowledge? I'm not asking facetiously; it seems to me that the only step in the process that isn't explicitly explained there is how to start cmd.exe, and a Google search should tell even the most uninitiated how to do that. I even checked out Strawberry Perl, since its installation wasn't documented, but it's no more difficult to install than, say, Microsoft Word, and though I didn't install it myself (I already have my own version installed), all indications are that it would be equally easy to uninstall.

Also, I will give up my right to prepend mildly snarky commentary to my technical advice when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers, and not before. :)

glasnost said: I thought the whole point of the Privileged/Contributor dichotomy was to differentiate between people who purchased the updated and people who were invited.

No, you can get invited to privileged for any number of reasons. Contributor is just a Privileged who has unrestricted uploading rights. So if someone were invited for translations, tag gardening, bug fixes, or just generally being helpful, rather than for a proven record of quality uploads, they would be put at the privileged level.

I was more of responding to the user who was apparently unwilling to even read part of the instructions on how to use the thing, not his original request.

In my opinion it would be great for the site to implement something like this. However, this may not be so good for its bandwidth.

Incidentally, I couldn't use such a feature even if it were implemented, the reason being that I probably couldn't afford it, what with bandwidth being so expensive in my country.

glasnost said:

Do the instructions in forum #16374 really require specialized knowledge?

My main point is that reading them fluently, especially when tired (I usually log in here to relax) requires a lot of knowledge many people like myself do not have.

(I sure used to know, approximately, what the COMMAND.COM of DOS was, but over the years, the knowledge has reduced to, "One of those important files I better not mess with." And believe it or not, when I tried to read about CMD.EXE in the English Wikipedia, I did not understand half of the text. When I read the corresponding article in my mother tongue, I think I got the idea.)

Making the futile assumptions that you are not especially interested in general linguistics and do not know Finnish, I will try to illustrate how much concentration reading

perl booru.pl danbooru hakurei_reimu -f={md5}" will download all images (...) and name them with their md5 hashes

requires from me:

Find the front vowel variant of -mA-, the agent participle marker, in the noun phrase käyttäjien päivittäin tekemät typerät kysymykset.

I am pretty sure the given task is not too difficult for you. And still, if you are given a whole page of stuff like that at a random moment, I would assume it to slow you down a bit.

Sorry for using too many words.