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Description
Screenshots
Features
System requirements
Short Tutorial
Download
Known bugs
Changelog
Acknowledgements

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Description

The GalleryGrabber collects images from multiple sites (deviantArt, VCL, FChan, Yiffstar, Furaffinity). You can get all images since the last download or since a date from the artists/subpages you selected.

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Screenshots

GalleryGrabber

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Features

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System requirements

Java2 version 6 or newer. You can check if you have it using this command line command (Windows: Start->run->cmd):

java -version

If you get nothing or if it's telling you that it doesn't know the command "java", you probably don't have java. If you get something, it should look like this:

java version "1.6.0_16"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_16-b01)

If the number is 1.6 or larger, GalleryGrabber should run.

If you don't have Java or an old version, you can download the newest one at "Download".

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Short tutorial

If everything works, you can just double-click the jar file, but sometimes a compressing software like WinZip graps this file extension.
If that happens, open the jar with javaw (Windows: right click -> Open with... -> Browse -> javaw.exe in the java install directory auswählen (also tick the "always open with"-box))

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Download

GalleryGrabber 1.1.1 (233 KB, zip)
Sourcecode GalleryGrabber 1.1.1 (210 KB, zip)
Old versions, mirror (Sourceforge)

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6

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Known bugs

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Changelog

Version 1.1
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Acknowledgements

I'd like to thank the following people:

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Comments

#19 foxrensics wrote at 03/13/2010 03:12 PM (EST):
This looks like a really great program, but I can't get it to work. I download the files, unpack it and run it with javaw and nothing happens at all. I'll try updating my Java installation again, just in case mine was corrupt or something.

#20 Klaue wrote at 03/13/2010 08:32 PM (EST):
Try running it through the dos console using
java -jar GalleryGrabber.jar
that should at lest display an usable error message

#21 foxrensics wrote at 03/14/2010 01:30 PM (EST):
Here's a screenshot of what I get (assuming I did it right, java really is not my thing):
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/5313/javaftw.png

#22 foxrensics wrote at 03/14/2010 02:09 PM (EST):
I'm going to try downgrading my java to 1.6.0_16, which is what you seem to have based the program on. Perhaps Java changed something so it wont run? I dunno, Ill try it anyways

#23 foxrensics wrote at 03/14/2010 02:24 PM (EST):
Yup, that was the problem. Change your download link to point to update 16, or update the code so that it uses update 18.

Yey!

#24 Klaue wrote at 03/15/2010 12:34 PM (EST):
From what I can see, the problem was something other. You see, when I build GalleryGrabber, I was kinda lazy and referred to local files by their relative file names - now when you start it out of the java directory (instead of out of the GalleryGrabber-Directory), it can't find the files.
My guess is that your java was just installed in a weird way so that it was not the default for jar files and therefore could not open them - now after reinstalling, it could grab the file extension and run it as it should.

Aaanyway, it works now, so we're all happy ;)

#8 Kasia wrote at 02/22/2010 06:17 AM (EST):
That's a great programm, but it worked only for 1 day.
In short - when I click "Run" button, it's starting to download a gallery, as usual, but then the download bar vanishes and...completely nothing happens. Nothing.
I honestly can't get a single pic from Deviantart now :(((
I dunno... maybe they changed the code on DA to forbid that kind of download or something (I know that sth like that happened with picaloader).
Awww... :( That would be a shame!
I wish it could work again!

p.s. forgive me my poor english ^^;

#9 Klaue wrote at 02/22/2010 09:17 AM (EST):
Hi Kasia
deviantArt actually did change something. They keep doing this. Bastards.
But I don't think it's because of me or my prog, they just like changing their site.
Anyway, it should work again, just download it again (you can just replace your old .jar with the new one in the zip - that way, you don't have to add the accounts again)

#10 Kasia wrote at 02/23/2010 03:09 AM (EST):
Unfortunately, it doesn't work :(

The downloading bar keeps vanishing. And that's it.

:(

#11 Klaue wrote at 02/23/2010 07:50 AM (EST):
Okay, then you have a problem I can't recreate. Please go to the Workfiles subdirectory and delete the log.txt. Then try again (the same error should happen again) and copy me the content of the new log file. This should help me figuring out what goes wrong

#12 Kasia wrote at 02/23/2010 01:07 PM (EST):
I've checked a polish forum of the magazine that described your programm to the readers - it looks like I'm not the only one that have this kind of problem (but the topic was removed, because nobody could find a solution, ugh).

I tried to do what you told me, but... no new log was created 0_o

I guess it's because the programm doesn't even end the operation. :(

It's like I said - when you push "run" button, the usual downloading bar is shown for like 2 seconds and then the bar vanishes and the programm is... doing nothing.

Aw...

#13 Klaue wrote at 02/23/2010 06:00 PM (EST):
Wait.. There was actually a magazine that wrote about my little prog? They could've at least told me! ;)
Okay, If you can't find the log, we have to do differently. Tell me exactly what you try to download. What user, what site (I guess deviantart), since which date.
Then I can try it here and if I get that error too, I can (probably) solve it

#4 Luis Vital wrote at 02/10/2010 09:37 AM (EST):
Hi,

I can't download anything. Can you help me? Thanks,

Luis

#5 Klaue wrote at 02/10/2010 09:38 AM (EST):
Luis: can you tell me what exactly doesn't work? It works fine for me.. Did you tell the program which users on which pages you want to download? The Prog can't download anything if it doesn't know what to download ;) go to "add account" and add, for example, deviantart with the target user name ultravioletbat.
Oh, by the way, the last download date is set to the actual date when you make such an account, so if you download everything since "last download" right after adding the account, there will be quite possibly no new pics

#6 Luis Vital wrote at 02/10/2010 09:39 AM (EST):
Hi Klaue,
First of all thanks for your reply.
To make a long story short, now everything works fine. I changed the accounts name (I no longer use the *, `, =, etc.) that comes in front of the names and I put a date in the date field.
Thanks again.

#7 Klaue wrote at 02/10/2010 09:39 AM (EST):
Hi Luis
Jup, those are just there to tell you the status (mod, paying member, free member, banned etc) of the user and are not part of the user name - but I guess you know that allready

#0 austin wolfclaw wrote at 02/10/2010 09:34 AM (EST):
fchan.hentaiplanet.net no longer works...it it now fchan.us.

#1 Klaue wrote at 02/10/2010 09:35 AM (EST):
Thanks, Austin
Fchan also generated other problems. I should update the GalleryGrabber (EDIT: done). Too bad I have not really time for that because of other projects and work and updates for this homepage (maybe translating it to english?) and so on. As soon as I have time, I'll probably update.

#2 austin wolfclaw wrote at 02/10/2010 09:36 AM (EST):
i tried to rebuild via the source, but it doesnt seem to work.... what do i need in order for a successful build?

#3 Klaue wrote at 02/10/2010 09:36 AM (EST):
Everything you need is in the zip..
Maybe your javac is older than version 1.5? or did you forget to include the libs (the jar files)?

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