Simple Imgur Fetchr

Simple Imgur Fetchr is a node script that will download the top images for a subreddit from Imgur to a location of your choosing. You can tune the parallelism of the downloads as well as how many pages you wish to fetch.

Installation

To install, you must first have npm installed on your machine.

$ npm install -g simple-imgur-fetchr

Usage

Usage: simple-imgur-fetchr <subreddit> <location> [options]

Options:
  -p, --pages       Number of pages to pull from Imgur. One page is 60 images.     [default: 1]
  -t, --timeframe   Timeframe in which you want the top images.                [default: "all"]
  -w, --workers     Number of workers to download concurrently.                    [default: 5]
  --allowPortraits  Download portrait images                         [boolean] [default: false]
  --allowLowRes     Download images that are smaller than 1920x1080  [boolean] [default: false]

By default, the script will download the top 60 images of all time for a subreddit.

Get top 60 of all time from r/pics

$ simple-imgur-fetchr pics /home/user/pics

This will download the top 60 images of all time and place them into the /home/user/pics directory.

Get the top 120 images for the last month from r/pics

$ simple-imgur-fetchr pics /home/user/pics -p 2 -t month

Get the top 120 images for the last week one image at a time

$ simple-imgur-fetchr pics /home/user/pics -p 2 -t week -w 1