Weird Request: Getting the watching/bookmark of an artist

[DonaldTsang]

I would like to get a list of other artists that an artists like.

• deviantArt
  https://www.deviantart.com/<username>/about#watching and hit the "load more" button repeatedly to get all the artists list.
  Challenge: Download user favorites (and create recommendations) kent-lee/deviantart-scraper#2 (comment)
  The list will be in the href of div#watchig div div div span a and the button is at div#watchig div button
• Pixiv
  https://www.pixiv.net/bookmark.php?id=<some_id>&type=user&p=<page_num>
  Challenge: Download user favorites (and create recommendations) kent-lee/pixiv-scraper#1 (comment)
  The links will be in the href of the <a> element following ul[type="following"] li[type="following"] a and the name will be at ul[type="following"] li[type="following"] div div a div
• FurAffinity
  http://www.furaffinity.net/watchlist/by/<usernaeme>/<page_num>
  Everything is in the href at tr td a and name is in tr td a span
• InkBunny
  https://inkbunny.net/usersviewall.php?mode=watching&user_id=<come_id>&page=<page_num>&namesonly=yes
  Everything is in tr td span.widget_userNameSmall a.widget_userNameSmall (either href or name)

[mikf]

Not sure if GitHub sends notifications to relevant users if a commit references a specific issue, but in case it doesn't: The new version supports listing followed users for Pixiv and DeviantArt with the URL patterns listed by you. Use -g or parse the output of -j to get the URLs of followed users:

$ gallery-dl -g "https://www.pixiv.net/bookmark.php?id=173530&type=user"
https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=1853563
https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=3172
…
https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=36199
https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=45833

[DonaldTsang]

Added Inkbunny name list as a feature request, also thanks for the updates on Pixiv and dA.

[catlover1019]

Any news on implementing this for inkbunny?

[mikf]

@catlover1019 inkbunny got done as well (e9dc6ff), although this uses the website directly instead of the API, which is used for everything else on that site.

Do you (or anybody else) know if there are private/protected follower lists on inkbunny that would need a login? At least for your own account's watched users there's an API method that could be used.

[catlover1019]

awesome :3

And I think besides some userpages being themselves restricted to logged-in users, all follwers and following are public.

[DonaldTsang]

@mikf for clarification, are there any way of dumping this data into a text file or a json file?

[Hrxn]

The Metadata? You can use the Metadata postprocessor.

[mikf]

You can also use -g for plain text or -j for JSON in combination with > to write that to a file:

$ gallery-dl -g "URL" > links.txt
$ gallery-dl -j "URL" > data.json