Artists find archiving and moving DeviantArt work tedious
Artists who want to preserve their DeviantArt galleries or move old work to a new account face a tedious download-and-reupload process. One artist specifically asks for a script to collect archived art, while others describe downloading pieces one by one or being only partway through reuploading. The signals don’t establish which other platforms artists want to move to, so a useful first step is making the archive and its metadata easy to export.
For digital artists with large or archived galleries. Mentioned from Aug 2024 to Apr 2026 on Bluesky.
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Does anyone know how to archive their Deviant Art account? Like is there a tool where you can download all of the images at once or do I have to go through and download each and every one?
(these are all from my oekaki art archive blog on tumblr, i reeeally need to update it but getting art off deviantart is a pain in the ass. anyone wanna write a python script to automate it for me? :3)
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