[Feature Request] Autodownload new post results from search query to existing local folder

[Anish244]

Add the ability to mirror e621.net queries by auto downloading new posts. There was a GitHub project that did this but it stopped development years ago and the latest update doesn't work at all on Windows 11 and uses Python 2.7. Nonetheless it would be great too see such a feature implemented in an actively supported downloader client.

Link: https://github.com/wwyaiykycnf/e621dl

[Anish244]

@head-gardener

[head-gardener]

@Anish244 don't think this particular client is actively supported. About the feature, what do you mean by auto downloading? If you want a background job that will start itself and pull new posts every once in a while without user input, than... I suggest you configure a tool like chrony yourself - coding it is unnecessary complex.
P.S. sorry for the delay, haven't been reading my mail much lately.

[McSib]

@Anish244 don't think this particular client is actively supported. About the feature, what do you mean by auto downloading? If you want a background job that will start itself and pull new posts every once in a while without user input, than... I suggest you configure a tool like chrony yourself - coding it is unnecessary complex. P.S. sorry for the delay, haven't been reading my mail much lately.

This client is still actively supported, just less so than it used to be due to things happening in my personal life taking up much of my time. I have plans to return to the project soon, there's just a lot happening this month that I must handle before then. But this issue will be addressed, as well as the others, I also have to fix multiple issues tied to dependencies, and then fix some new bugs that have popped up recently. I'm moving as fast as possible so the project can be updated again and restored to working order as before, just need a bit of time sadly as other things have taken importance. I never intended for the project to go to the standstill it did, but a lack of motivation followed by intense time restrictions and deadlines I had to meet with other things forced my hand and required me to put it off to the side. Apologies to you and others for having to wait and/or use other clients until everything is fixed. The last four months have been chaos.

Sorry for the word wall. I made a post recently in the forums as well about my lack of presence, I hope everyone can hold a little bit more patience for me while I sort everything out and, hopefully, get back into working order with everything.

[Anish244]

Sorry for my wording, I meant that the other project that I linked in my original post wasn't in active support. 'e621_downloader
' is most certainly actively supported! I am relatively inexperienced in coding and have never previously contributed to anything on GitHub. I just thought I'd ask about the potential to add a feature allowing new results for a given query to be downloaded to the same file as previous downloads for the same query. I don't have experience with the Rust language. I'm sorry to hear that others haven't been treating you with patience recently in regard to your private situation. I wish you the best in navigating your responsibilities outside of this project.

[McSib]

Sorry for my wording, I meant that the other project that I linked in my original post wasn't in active support. 'e621_downloader ' is most certainly actively supported! I am relatively inexperienced in coding and have never previously contributed to anything on GitHub. I just thought I'd ask about the potential to add a feature allowing new results for a given query to be downloaded to the same file as previous downloads for the same query. I don't have experience with the Rust language. I'm sorry to hear that others haven't been treating you with patience recently in regard to your private situation. I wish you the best in navigating your responsibilities outside of this project.

No need to apologize, I by no means intend to come off bad, people have been patient, I just preface it since my project hasn't been updated in a while. I'm already running under the assumption that people are becoming impatient. It's understandable due to the bugs and issues going on, I'm just hoping I'll have time soon to fix them.

As for the feature proposal, I would need a direct description for it. Upon initial reading, it seems like the feature you want is to download newer posts from the same queries, or to download and write over already existing files. I'm not too familiar with the feature your referencing exactly. If you could do a step by step on what it does, then I can have a better idea of what it is.