pixiv-popular-downloader/README.md

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This is a python script for downloading original pixiv images from popular search results via a premium account.

Instructions

  1. Download this repo to your computer of course, and open the terminal in it. Run pip install -r requirements.txt if necessary.

  2. In your browser, on Pixiv logged in to a premium account, in dev tools Application tab, copy the value of the PHPSESSID cookie, and paste it into a new file named PHPSESSID.txt in this folder.

  3. Run python pixiv-popular-downloader.py -h for usage information. Example usage to download 10 pages of 初音ミク tag, including r18: python pixiv-popular-downloader.py -r -p 10 "初音ミク"

  4. Check the download folder. If you're getting newest results instead of popular results, then your PHPSESSID failed to work.