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[deviantArt] [feature request] Download description text #189
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c7a6b0e adds a metadata option to fetch descriptions, etc. from the API endpoint you mentioned. You can use the
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Is there a cli flag way to do this? almost all deviantart's I rip I don't want to save the descriptions for. But 1or2 authors will attach a long story to a cover image and the story is lost unless I do the above.... but if I do the above I'll get 1000s of unwanted descriptions (when in actuality I only want very very very long descriptions saved, and I want to manually choose to do this for certain galleries with a flag option of some sort.... but I currently don't know a way to pack a postprocessor into a -flag |
Possible feature request: Ability to download the text-description of an artwork, and by extension, of all artworks in a gallery / collection.
(Optionally, perhaps only triggered via command line parameter to turn it on/off. I'd always leave it on personally, but not everybody would of course.)
Descriptions on deviantArt are provided as HTML by the API, "black text on white background" style, which is fine by me.
Possible save location could be a folder "./descriptions" in the gallery or collection being downloaded, or just "./DESCR" to conserve precious file path length.
The reason I'm asking is that some artists have a habit of putting stories in their artwork-descriptions.
I tried to look into this myself, but didn't get all that far due to my complete lack of python-experience. ^_^;;
I checked deviantArt's API documentation, it should be possible to get the description from a deviation's metadata:
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