Installing the command-line executable

Assuming you have Rust/Cargo installed, run this command in a terminal:

cargo install e6dl

It will make the e6dl command available in your PATH if you've allowed the PATH to be modified when installing Rust. cargo uninstall e6dl uninstalls.

Back to the crate overview.

Readme

e6dl-rs

This is a command line tool for downloading posts that match certain tags on e621 or e926.

It's this ported to Rust, which was actually originally ported from JS. I am not Good At The Rust™️ yet, so I am using this project to get Good At The Rust™️. (i.e., the code is probably bad and not idiomatic). If you see areas I could improve, just let me know using an issue.

Installation

$ cargo install e6dl

Usage

USAGE:
    e6dl [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <tags>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help
            Prints help information

    -s, --sfw
            Download posts from e926 instead of e621

    -V, --version
            Prints version information


OPTIONS:
    -c, --concurrency <concurrency>
            Maximum number of concurrent downloads [default: 5]

    -g, --group <group>...
            Save downloaded posts grouped by the specified grouping. You can specify multiple groupings. See:
            https://github.com/tjhorner/e6dl-rs/wiki/Post-Grouping
    -l, --limit <limit>
            The maximum number of posts that should be retrieved per page. There is a hard limit of 320 [default: 10]

    -o, --out <out>
            The directory to write the downloaded posts to [default: ./out]

        --page <page>
            The page that will be retrieved. Can also be used with "a" or "b" + `post_id` to get the posts after or
            before the specified post ID. For example, "a13" gets every post after post_id 13 up to the limit. This
            overrides any ordering meta-tag; `order:id_desc` is always used instead.

            If used with the `pages` option, only numeric page values are allowed. [default: 1]
    -p, --pages <pages>
            The maximum number of pages to download.

            Can be used in conjunction with the `page` option to start search at a specific page. [default: 1]

ARGS:
    <tags>
            The tags to search for, space-separated. See: https://e621.net/help/cheatsheet

License

MIT