Downloadable Archive

Starbounce

Hey there, the anouncement of next year’s bronycon being the last has got many thinking about the long-term future of the fandom and many of the sites we visit. I was wondering if there was a readily available database download for Derpibooru, seeing as how this site hosts much of the fandom’s history.
 
I realise such an archive would be enormous in size, but for the option to be there would put many people’s minds at ease. This site likely isn’t going away anytime soon, but who knows what might happen years down the road.
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Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
An Artist Who Rocks - 100+ images under their artist tag
Artist -

Philomena Contributor
@Starbounce  
We will provide a downloadable archive of the site, including images, comments, and posts, should we decide to discontinue operations in the future.
Joey
Dawnsong - Derpi Supporter
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!

PM me your cute OCs
There are several people who maintain “backups” of the site by using bots to essentially download and store every single image we have.
 
But really, cons and websites are two different things - going to a con costs hundreds of dollars (or more), requires a time commitment of several days, and requires no scheduling conflicts. A website is basically “check it whenever you want for as long as you want”, so our growth patterns are vastly different since we’re more convenient.
 
And the reality is, we’re holding very steady. If anything, Derpibooru seems to be seeing an increase in traffic/visitors (although it’s increasing at a very slow rate).
Background Pony #97FD
Thanks for the responses, glad to know that this place isn’t going anywhere anytime soon
ZippySqrl
HARD WERK - Merited Perfect Pony Plot Provider badge with only their own art and really hates Applejack
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
The Magic of Friendship Grows - For helping others attend the 2020 Community Collab
Lady's Wink -
Toola Roola - For helping others attend the 2019 Community Collab
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2019) - Celebrated Derpibooru's seventh year anniversary with friends

Tired Artist
I use derpi to host all my high res stuff. Having to modify all the links to derpi on all my other stuff would be a pain, so hopefully it lasts as long as possible.
 
Though, inversely, the longer it lasts and the longer I use it to host my stuff, the more I’ll have to change if and when it does eventually die…
HMage
Perfect Pony Plot Provider - Uploader of 10+ images with 350 upvotes or more (Questionable/Explicit)
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Artist -
Silver Bit -
Happy Derpy! - For Patreon supporters

I eat tea
After the Tumblr events, I started wanting to have an entire archive locally. Even if it’s hundreds of terabytes.
 
Maybe it’s the time to reconsider the approach whether it’s feasible to offer a downloadable archive?
 
The way I see it, one day derpibooru can just disappear without warning, even if the admins will try everything in their power to prevent that or restore it back.
 
Having an archive “just in case” ahead of time would be greatly appreciated, even if it’s not gonna stay up to date — better than nothing.
 
It’s doable — Wikipedia hosts a periodically updated archive.
 
I understand bandwidth can be an issue for offering that. Especially with bots already crawling entire site and downloading everything.
Barhandar
Perfect Pony Plot Provider - Uploader of 10+ images with 350 upvotes or more (Questionable/Explicit)
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
The Magic of Friendship Grows - For helping others attend the 2020 Community Collab
Dream Come True! - Participated in the MLP 9th Anniversary Event
Toola Roola - For helping others attend the 2019 Community Collab
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2019) - Celebrated Derpibooru's seventh year anniversary with friends
A Tale For The Ages - Celebrated MLP's 35th Anniversary and FiM's 8th Anniversary
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.
Helpful Owl - Drew someone's OC for the 2018 Community Collab

(twi|pony)booru.org
@Joey  
But does the script also download the relevant metadata?
 
@HMage  
It physically can only be up to 42.3 terabytes actually (factual + “deleted” multiplied by 25MB).
Lead Pie
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice
Birthday Cake - Celebrated MLP's 7th birthday
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!
Artist -

This is a box.
@Barhandar  
The program Joey linked is very handy as it can automatically sort files into individual folders by upload date. (I have the bad feeling putting them all in one place would probably make my Windows Explorer crash.)
 
It can download metadata (tags, favoriters) as json files if you want it to, however at this time it does not save comments even if you enable that. Comments got moved at some point in the past and now aren’t accessible as before.
 
I currently have 1.63 TB of images and a few GB of json files for metadata.
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