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gallery-dl

Download whole image galleries from many sites with one terminal command

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What it is

gallery-dl is a command-line tool that saves image galleries and collections from many sites. It is for archivists and collectors who want their saved art and photos offline. It names files using the site's metadata and can skip what you already have.

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Facts

Stars: 20,172 GitHub stars.
Forks: 1,520
Commits: 8,005
Contributors: 198
Language: Python
License: GPL-2.0
Last commit: Oct 17, 2026
On GitHub since: October 2014
First release: November 2015
Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux, CLI
Self-hostable: No
Author: Mike Fährmann
Tags: downloader
web-archiving
photo-management
web-scraping

Last synced from GitHub on Oct 20, 2026

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What people are saying

Updated Oct 21, 2026

Hacker NewsGallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sitesNov 29, 2020 · 407 points · 65 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
Hacker NewsMedia scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA noticeApr 6, 2026 · 201 points · 61 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
Bluesky“Favorites can easily be downloaded with the re621 userscript ( or gallery-dl (”May 16, 2025 · 6 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Bluesky“Speaking of archiving things, would really highly recommend setting up gallery-dl ( if you’re wanting to bulk download galleries and other things! It’s a…”Aug 12, 2025 · 5 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Bluesky“3. gallery-dl - (any OS that can run python) command-line tool for bulk downloading images online. name any site and you can probably import images from it…”Aug 5, 2025 · 2 likes · 3 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Bluesky“Well now seems like a good time to finally add bluesky artists to the archive. If you're a vore artist (or similar) and I follow you, I'll have your art…”Sep 20, 2025 · 4 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Bluesky“@andycougar.bsky.social @badluckmurphy.bsky.social There is a command-line tool called gallery-dl I've messed around with before that might provide the kind…”Dec 24, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Hacker NewsGallery-DLMar 14, 2022 · 3 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
Bluesky“if you don't mind using command line utilities gallery-dl would be perfect for that. It'll download an entire gallery to a folder, though you might have to do…”Aug 16, 2026 · 2 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Bluesky“back when i used windows, i used to gallery-dl which ran from terminal but nowadays i think there is a gui version in the installation section”Jun 25, 2026 · 2 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Bluesky“if you're comfortable with command-line tools, i love this one:”Dec 17, 2025 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Bluesky“Are you using a DA built in function to download your works in bulk? Or are you manually downloading each file? If command line tools aren't too scary…”Aug 29, 2026 · 0 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Bluesky“oh yeah, then you can probably get it to work. it's nominally for fetching media though (as you can hear in the name), so you'll have to configure it to save…”Jul 18, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Bluesky“false alarm for this one at least, it's still up... gonna work to set this one up tonight, I've already backed up my pixiv likes”Mar 11, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Bluesky“Today I discovered "gallery-dl"; a command line program that lets you download image galleries from supported sites. I tested it on a subreddit just now and…”Jul 23, 2025 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Bluesky“not exactly what you're looking for but gallery-dl is useful for full archival might help w/ deletion”Jul 5, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
Bluesky“mikf/gallery-dl Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites ========== gallery-dl gallery-dl is a…”Jul 29, 2025 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)