Bulk downloading of images off my gallery

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**Flinty**

Hi

I'm keen to re-download all my gallery images. Is there an elegant way to do a bulk download, or do I need to do it one at a time?

**Kid_Kyoto**

Not that I know of. Lego Burner would have to chime in to say if there's a backend solution he could offer to users.

There's a block delete button so maybe...

**legoburner**

There's no built-in or trivial way to do it, but you could learn and use wget to script it, then delete all files you download under a certain size to automatically cut out thumbnails.

If you are able to learn the basics of python, BeautifulSoup would let you download them all with metadata in 20 or so lines of code.

**Flinty**

Thanks Legoburner. I’ll sic my son on it

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Aaaaand he’s done

Hopefully this hasn’t tripped any botscraping warnings

Here’s the code he used, in case it’s useful to anyone else

Spoiler:

**legoburner**

Ethically should add a 1 second timer between requests, but otherwise nicely done!