Saving only referenced images (from Fandom) #58
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Hello! I am in the process of archiving a wiki (not urgently) on Fandom. The wiki has an active discussion forum, but I am interested only in saving the articles in the main namespace (plus with templates and modules). This is fine for the XML dump, but the image dump downloads all images on the wiki. There are over 100,000 images (most of which are irrelevant for the wiki articles) and the script tends to crash with "max retries exceeded with url" on a certain image which responds with 500. Is there a way to only download images which are referenced in the XML dump? Or skip images which error 500 after retries? Thank you! |
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BogTheMudWing
Oct 19, 2025
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I ended up using a modified version of this script to download all images: https://dev.fandom.com/wiki/DownloadImages |
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I ended up using a modified version of this script to download all images: https://dev.fandom.com/wiki/DownloadImages