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mikf
gallery-dl
Python2020–2026
mikf / gallery-dl

gallery-dl

Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites

12Distinct people
15Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
20.5KGitHub stars
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What it is

Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year15 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-11-29 11:46:44 UTC to 2026-04-06 08:52:02 UTC.

012342020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

What Hacker News says

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https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/discussions/9304#discussioncomment-16279674 I know for sure that at least some of the listed sites already remove content in response to fakku dmca. There is no fakku content on there. https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/discussions/9304#discussioncomment-16280050 they also list hentaifoundry which afaik is a site for users to post their own art and is certainly not a piracy site
In Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice
A page such as this[1] requires javascript to be enabled to be viewable on github. Viewing any and all "/blob/" pages on github requires javascript to be enabled now. It didn't used to be this way ~1 year ago but github is slowly making javascript necessary on many pages for some annoying reason. I could set up a redirect to the '/raw/' pages but then the syntax highlighting is gone. The same page is perfectly viewable over plain html on gothub[2] though. Github also seems to be hiding their "Assets" (binaries et al) on the "/releases" page for some projects behind javascript(especially older versions).[3] Something else that wasn't the case about ~1.5 years ago. Would be great if gothub could unshackle the links to those as well[4], but that doesn't seem to work at the moment[5] . This project appears to be a more performant(measurably
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so), more privacy friendly(as Microsoft won't have a record of your interest in certain projects) alternative front-end for "non logged in" github users. I like it, but it still needs work. [1] https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/blob/18cf47156abe94255ae14... [2] https://gh.bloatcat.tk/mackyle/sqlite/blob/18cf47156abe94255... [3] https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/releases [4] https://gh.bloatcat.tk/mikf/gallery-dl/releases [5] https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub/issues/74
In Gothub: Alternative front-end for GitHub written with Go

Show HN: A Qt based GUI for many CLI based online media downloaders

This tool works in Windows and Linux and is a GUI front ends to the following CLI tools that deal with online media downloading. The extension based architecture makes it possible to easily add support for any other CLI tool but it limits itself to tools deals with downloading of online media. yt-dlp : https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp youtube-dl : https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl gallery-dl : https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl lux : https://github.com/iawia002/lux you-get : https://github.com/soimort/you-get svtplay-dl : https://github.com/spaam/svtplay-dl aria2c : https://aria2.github.io wget : https://www.gnu.org/software/wget safari books : https://github.com/mhogomchungu/safaribooks
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