I originally created this extension to be able to archive creators that I supported who uploaded a lot of files or images in slideshows. Month per month I would achive the posts. After patreon removed the ability to filter by month this extension is no longer useful to me. There are usually too many posts in a year to scrape and download at once. In addition there are so many file formats and so many ways that creators can include files in posts this has become a nightmare to test. Especially as I cant test it on creators that I havent paid for. Every time patreon updates their layout this also needs to be updated.
If this is somehow still useful for you, you can install the dist.zip folder manually as a chrome extension.
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This extension will scrape a Patreon feed and download all posted images, slideshows and files. Useful for archiving.
No longer in active development. Old versions can be installed by loading an unpacked extension in Chrome. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv2/getstarted/
CHROME STORE TEXT Due to the reactive nature of the Patreon front end, the only way to download slideshow images is to simulate a user interacting with the site. Please don't complain that you don't want to sit through slideshows, it's the only way I can get all the urls. . The reason images are downloaded at the end of the process is that network errors or timeouts will break the scraping, so trying to download a large file while scraping is a bad idea.
I highly suggest filtering the feed by month or selecting single posts for feeds with a lot of images or files. You will need a fairly fast connection as network errors will stop the scraping.
The extension will take control of the website and attempt to find all images and files. It then sends the urls to be downloaded sequentially.
To use simply load the page you want to archive, you can stop the page loading once the dom has loaded if you don't want to wait for all the images to download. Then press download. Images will be downloaded to downloads/Patreon_Downloader/ in the given folder and in subfolders named after the post titles.
WARNING: If you haven't set up a default download directory, you will have to manually choose the save location for each image, which might open a lot of popup windows. It is not recommended to attempt to download too many images at once without a default download directory.
If you have a network error while scraping a slideshow, you can right click on the image missing icon and select "load image". The scraper will continue.
CHANGELOG: 0.1.4 Better text searching, remove buy me a coffee link 0.1.3 Returned ability to set folder name, folder defaults. 0.1.0 Major redesign Attempts to save with folders as creator name and date of the post 0.0.8 Scraping slideshows optional Files are not overriden when downloading 0.0.6 File links downloaded as well as images Main subfolder named after the creator Post subfolder named after the post date and not the sequence 0.0.5 Add option to save all text from post Add option to not confirm before downloading Stop scraper attempting to open locked posts 0.0.4 Removed special characters from subfolder name
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