FurAffinity Favorites downloader

This Perl script is designed to make it easy-peasy to download both your own favorites, as well as the favorites of others.

Requirements

Pretty much any version of modern Perl will work with this script.

If you are on Linux or Mac OSX, you likely already have a version of Perl accessible to you and no installation is required on your part.

However, if you are on Windows, you will need to download a version of Perl for Windows. I personally reccommend ActivePerl. (When you install it, make sure that Perl is a part of your PATH, there should be an option in the installer.)

Usage

You can run this program from most command lines by simply typing its name when in the same folder as it (Or by specifying the place the script is at.).

If that doesn’t help any, allow me to go into much greater detail:

Starting the Perl Script For Dummies

A part of my new book (I don’t have a book.) details how to perform command line wizardry (Not really). It is truly a guide that will cover all possible bases ever. (Probably not)

And without further ado… (Finally)

Accessing the command line

The first step is that you need to open a “command line”, on Windows, this is called the “Command Prompt”, and on both Mac OSX and Linux, it is known as the “Terminal”.

On Linux, you probably already know how to open the command line, but if not, try looking in the Applications menu for an item called “Terminal”
On Mac OSX, you can find your termial in Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
On Windows, you can type [Windows Key] + [R], type ”cmd” and hit [Enter]

Downloading using the script

Assuming you know where you downloaded the Perl script, you can usually just drag and drop the script (”FAFD.pl”, or just ”FAFD” on systems that hide extensions.) directly onto your command line window.

Some text should appear, this is “path” of the Perl script.

Now you need to do a teensy bit of typing; add a space after the script and type a ”-u” followed by another space, and then the username you want to download the favorites of.

That means you should have something like this:

'/some/path/to/FAFD.pl' -u thingywhat

(/some/path/to/FAFD.pl will be different on your system.)

Now, type another space after the username, type ”-d” followed by another space, and then drag a folder from somewhere onto your command line.

The end result should look something like the following:

'/some/path/to/FAFD.pl' -u thingywhat -d '/some/path/to/your/download/folder'

When you have a line that looks similar (Not the exact same, just with the same structure), hit [Enter] and watch the files download!

Slight description of the command line arguments

There is only one required argument: the -u option, and that specifies the user you want to download… The downloads in this case will appear in a folder in the place you ran it from called “downloads”. This folder is created if it doesn’t exist already.

Also if you wish to specify a place for these files to be downloaded, you can specify so with the ”-d” option.

If you specify the ”-v” option, downloads will become more verbose, telling you exactly where the files are being downloaded from, and where they are being saved on your hard drive.

You can also get help with the -h option (Or no options at all), which prints out some handy information. about the script… Pretty much just an abridged version of this README:

FurAffinity Favorites Downloader version 0.1.1
By CrinklyFriend (https://github.com/CrinklyFriend)

	-h			This help screen.
	-u <user> 	The user to work with. (Required)
	-d [folder]	Where to download the files.
	-v			Make downloads verbose.

For example, to download the favorites of thingywhat we could:

	./FAFD.pl -u thingywhat

Or to specify a place for them to be downloaded:

	./FAFD.pl -u thingywhat -d ~/Downloads/FA

Enjoy! And don’t forget to submit an Issue if you find a bug with this script.