A simple tool to download all media from a patreon creator
Download the latest release and add the executable to your PATH.
Don't forget to make the file executable using
chmod +x patreon-crawlerwhen using a UNIX-based operating system
The patreon-crawler requires you to manually extract the cookie from the Patreon website inorder to authenticate you against the Patreon API.
The simplest way to extract the cookies is by visiting the Patreon home page and copying the cookie-value from a network request:
- In a new tab, open your browser's network tab.
- Navigate to patreon.com/home. Make sure you are logged in.
- Find a request starting with
current_user?include=..... Click it a scroll to theRequest Headerssection. - Copy the
Cookievalue to your clipboard.
To authenticate against
patreon.comit's actually sufficient to copy thesession_id=<id>cookie, however, passing the entire cookie string won't affect functionality.
To download all media from a creator, run the following command.
patreon-crawler --creator <creator-id>You will be prompted to enter the cookie (the one you copied earlier) and a download directory.
If you do not wish do be prompted, you can also use the --cookie and --download-dir flag respectively.
The patreon-crawler supports the following command line flags.
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
creator |
The creator ID to download media from. You can find this in the URL when visiting a creators page: patreon.com/c/<creator-id>/... |
cookie |
The cookie from the Patreon website to authenticate against the Patreon API |
download-dir |
The base directory to download media to. All files will be located in <download-dir>/<creator> |
download-limit |
The maximum number of media files to download. |
download-inaccessible-media |
Whether to download media that is inaccessible (blurred images) |
grouping |
The strategy for grouping post media into folders. none - Puts all media into the same folder (per creator)by-post - Creates a folder for each post, containing its media |