Does anyone know if it's possible to find the ID of an artist who deleted their account? Recently found that a handful of illustrations were unavailable in my bookmarks because an artist/artists deactivated.
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If you have the images themselves saved somewhere as well, you could feed them to http://saucenao.com/.
Saucenao is great, but I just had them bookmarked.....I don't remember what illustrations they were in the first place, so I can't remember which artist drew them. I was hoping someone tech savvy might know some trick with Google Chrome inspect element shenanigans or something :/
You have it bookmarked using Pixiv's bookmark system you mean? I'm pretty sure there's no way to find out anything about it then. I've tried inspecting the html element in the past but there's nothing there I can see to point to what the illustraton id or artist id was. I've also tried using pixiv's api, but it not only contains nothing usable for deleted bookmarks but doesn't even list them at all, they're simply gone.