furdown

Yet another mass downloader for FurAffinity.net.

Note: only works with the new (Modern) theme.

Download stable win32 builds.

Changelog (v.2.0.1.0)

• Switched to Edge-based embedded browser for authentification and human verification.

A note about CF's "I'm Under Attack" mode

• If you are already logged in but are shown the login form anyway, simply navigate to the FA front page.

System requirements

• Windows 7 SP1, 8.1, or 10+. Windows 10 or 11 recommended.
• .NET Framework 4.6.2
• Microsoft Edge WebView2 (usually preinstalled on Windows 10 or newer)

Edge WebView2 requirement can be bypassed if you implement an alternative cookie provider, see "Advanced options" section below.

Portable mode

To leave no traces in ApplicationData directory you can create an empty file called furdown-portable.conf in the working directory, it will then be used as a settings storage file instead of the default %AppData%\furdown\furdown.conf.

Batch/CLI mode

v.0.3.6 adds a basic support for being run within a batch script, or from a terminal.

For that -b must be passed as the first argument, followed by a combination of one or more arguments:

• -g URL

Download a gallery / scraps / folder located at URL. If URL is prefixed with $, it will be treated like a file to read the url list from.

• -d

Tells furdown you also want submission descriptions saved as HTML.

• -u, -upd, -update (since 0.4.9.9b)

Check for content updates. This means comparing the file IDs with the ones stored in furdown's internal cache, and downloading the changed files. (details)

• -f FILE

Download all galleries listed in FILE. Same as -g $FILE

• -o DIR

Override downloads directory with DIR.

• -dbignore, -dbi

Prohibits re-downloading files already marked as downloaded in furdown's internal database.

• -dbforce, -dbf

Allows re-downloading files already marked as downloaded in furdown's internal database.

• -st TMPLT

Override submissions naming template with TMPLT. *

• -dt TMPLT

Override descriptions naming template with TMPLT. *

* As templates use the syntax much like that used for environment variables, you may get unexpected results if, say, %FILEPART% is an existing variable.

Other notes:

• You must login in GUI mode at least once before using batch/CLI mode unless the cookies/user-agent are provided using the environment variables.
• For non-overridden parameters the value from a current configuration file (the same file used in GUI mode) is used.

Examples:

• furdown.exe -b -g https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/flipstick
• furdown.exe -b -d -dbi -f "Z:\Saved Galleries\list.txt" -o "Z:\Saved Galleries\"
• furdown.exe -b -d -g https://www.furaffinity.net/scraps/flipstick -dt %ARTIST%.s\%SUBMID%.%FILEPART%.dsc.htm -st %ARTIST%.s\%SUBMID%.%FILEPART%

Note that % might need to be escaped as %% in batch scripts.

Advanced options

The builtin authentication mechanism based on the embedded Edge can be bypassed by setting FURDOWN_COOKIES and FURDOWN_USERAGENT environment variables to the appropriate values. Setting just the FURDOWN_USERAGENT has no effect.

Note that the FURDOWN_COOKIES is expected to contain the entire cookie header value (something like b=XXX; __gads=XXX; a=XXX; s=XXX; __qca=XXX; sz=XXX; cc=XXX; __cfduid=XXX where XXXs are some values)