Topic: Mass downloader, that also downloads child/parent posts and "the rest of the pool too"?

Posted under e621 Tools and Applications

Hey folks!

So, I've been lurking around this website for ~7 years, and after my life changed recently (for neutral/almost good, but personally identifiable reasons), I've decided to make an account to have an API key and ask weird questions on the forum

So, I've browsing this site by driving to a nearby city (since i don't have usable internet at home (just enough cell service to call 112 reliably and "landline" is way too slow and unreliable)), download a bunch of posts with so-and-so tags on my laptop and then go home to read/watch them

Except sometimes, the context is missing from not having so-and-so tags, and I just get the part where the little guy with big eyes falls into lava, yet seems happy; or the evil-looking guy tells the presumably good guy about his parentage

It would also be nice to see what happens after some big guy tells some kid that they're a wizard, pissing off his (i think) parents

So headline again: is there a bulk downloader that automatically grabs all the child and parent posts (if any) (preferably recursively, getting siblings and grandparents too), and also all the other posts in the same pool (if any) as the desired post¸ and then downloads and saves them in a folder named either after the pool or the parent of the parent of the parent of the... post

Preferably something that can run on an 10+ year old laptop with Ubuntu Linux 64-bit and 4G of RAM, and enough local storage

I'm currently using grabber.bionus.org and either it doesn't have the feature, or I have no idea how to set it up

I have heard about self-hosted booru's, but I have no idea on how to set one up, if it will even run on my machine or if it's what I need (I don't need networking, I view on the same machine as I download on)

I have read about the archives some else are already sharing, but I suspect they aren't my taste (but if they are, I can just download them later)

Please note that my answers will be sporadic, since i don't have usable internet where i live and unpredictable workhours

To my knowledge, no. However, this would be fairly trivial to make with some basic JS knowledge, so if you have that, I'd recommend checking our API help page.

Original page: https://e621.net/forum_topics/59659