galleries

Image galleries

Complete image galleries are downloaded through the external tool gallery-dl. One queue entry represents an entire gallery, and its files are stored in a subdirectory of the package destination.

gallery-dl is not bundled with the native builds — install it, or place it in the vendor folder. The Docker image contains it. See External tools.

Adding a gallery

Paste the gallery address into the LinkGrabber. It is recognised by the host list and queued as a single entry.

Presets ship for Pixiv, DeviantArt, ArtStation, Flickr, Danbooru, Gelbooru, e621, Rule34, Kemono, Fanbox, Redgifs and Imgbox. The host list is editable under Settings → Media → Galleries, so any site gallery-dl supports can be added.

How it behaves

• The whole gallery is one queue row, with one progress figure — not one row per image.
• Repeated runs skip files that already exist, so a retry fetches only what is missing.
• Files land under the package destination, in their own subdirectory.

Authenticated galleries

A site that needs a login can use an authentication profile with the site's browser cookies, as media downloads do: with Authentication left at Automatic (by domain), the approved profile for the gallery's site is handed to gallery-dl as a private cookie file that holds only that site's cookies and is removed when the download ends; a pinned profile is used as pinned, None sends none.

gallery-dl's own configuration file still works for everything else it can be told, such as a username and password; write it as that tool documents it, and the runner picks it up.

Settings

Settings → Media → Galleries:

Setting	Default
Host list	12 presets, editable
Parallel gallery jobs	2 (1–8)

The path to gallery-dl is under Settings → Tools → Paths; empty means the vendor folder, then PATH.

Galleries on a schedule

A supported gallery profile can be a subscription: rDownloader polls it and new items enter the LinkGrabber through the ordinary intake, so routing rules, categories and review still apply.

Which version of the tool you have matters

Settings → Tools → Status shows the version gallery-dl reported and a verdict — Supported, Too old, Known bad or Version unknown. A tool that is behind blocks only the capabilities it is named for. rDownloader can also download and activate verified versions itself; this is off unless you switch it on. See External tools.

Switching galleries off

Settings → Services → Galleries. Matching links are refused at intake and anything queued moves to Blocked.

Related pages

• The LinkGrabber
• Video and audio downloads
• Subscriptions
• External tools