Version 2.4.6 (with Windows Installer!)

Improvements/New Features

Windows Installer for e621dl standalone executable (issue #23) Windows users who do not have or wish to use Python may download the MSI in this release and install a standalone copy of e621dl.

Windows users wishing to use this copy should run the MSI then run the program using one of the following methods:

1. double-click Run_e621dl_In_Windows.bat in the e621dl install directory -OR-
2. open a command prompt in the e621dl install directory and run e621dl.exe
   (double-clicking e621dl.exe will open and then instantly close it, before you can read anything)

Note: e621dl install directory above refers to the directory to which e621dl was installed, which by default should be C:\Program Files (x86)\e621dl

All other platforms (OSX, Linux, etc) should simply download the source code and run e621dl.py

Bug Fixes

All Users: The program now correctly creates config.txt and tags.txt upon first run. (issue #22)

Details

Please see the notes in commit f570309 for information regarding the new directory in this repo, build/. In short, it contains the tools required to create a windows installer (msi). Dependencies include cx_freeze and pywin32.

Issue #22 was easily fixed, being basically caused by negligence and lazy testing after some refactoring for the previous version.

Version 2.3.2

Warning to Windows Users

This version is NOT stable in Windows. A fix is incoming, but for now please use v2.0.0 below.

Improvements/New Features

• Parallel downloading = big speed boost
  • Defaults to 8 threads, can be set to any number between 1 and 16
• Ability to create sub-directories for each tags.txt line
  • By default, this information is appended to the front of the downloaded file
• No more auto-sorting of tags.txt
  • The order of the lines in tags.txt is no longer changed.
• Fixed crash due to unicode in tags.txt. Unicode is now fully supported in tags.txt
• Fixed a bug that caused previously-downloaded files not to be found

Details

implemented feature #9: multi-threaded downloading

By default, 8 threads will now be spawned during downloading, allowing 8 concurrent downloads. You may specify the number of threads using the "parallel_downloads" setting in config.txt.

implemented feature #15: subdirectory support

Added option to create subdirectories for each tag line. This is not enabled by default, but can be enabled using the "create_subdirectories" setting in config.txt.

implemented feature #13: no more auto-sorting of tags list

The program no longer sorts the tags list. This enables some clever tricks, such as specifying "catch-all" categories at the bottom of the file. See issue #13 for an example of this.

fixed issue #14: crash due to unicode in tags.txt

Fixed bug that caused crash on tag lines with unicode due to (strangely) the last_run date not encoding properly.

fixed issue #18: downloaded files not detected

Downloads directory was not being added to the call to os.path.isfile(filename), but files were always downloaded to download_directory/filename

Version 2.0.0

A more robust, polished, and user-friendly version of the original program.

• Faster execution and downloads (due to use of e621.net API)
• Easier to use (all extraneous files moved to lib/)
• All settings now in config.txt, including last_run
• tags.txt now supports meta-tags and multiple tags per line.