[Guide] A Comprehensive Guide on Improving Your Uploads

What it covers

• How to get notifications from Pixiv, Seiga, Nijie, Tumblr among other websites
• How to view, save, and/or upload older versions of submissions (that have been revised) or deleted submissions on pixiv
• How to view hotlinked images on pixiv. Related to the above.
• How to sort through uploads quickly (which posts are or aren't upped yet without manually checking). You can check about:userscripts for them.
• How to detect source mismatches and revisions (quickly)
• How to tag quickly
• How to abuse the upload page

I've also included a modification to Mango's script that also allows for the special highlighting and checking of source mismatches. It also has logic for multi-image submissions and accounts for the bad revision tag. Here are some screenshots of what it looks like: Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2. Purple indicates mismatch, orange indicates bad revision. Of course, you can code and modify it yourself, perhaps to even improve on it.

If you want to view this guide and also get the updated script, you must join my Discord. The invite code is: hvtWqzr. If you don't have discord yet, go get it here, and click the little + sign, and paste that code in as an invite code.

Requirements to become a fully privileged member in my discord:

• Mikaeri likes your performance and your attitude.

That's it. Anyone can join, but you'll have probably better chances if you show to me you're friendly, aspiring, and willing to help out the gallery as a whole without throwing anyone else under the bus. If you have questions, do contact @nonamethanks or @Unbreakable, as they are both mods in my server.

If you want to confirm your discord username with me or them (so you can view all the channels and resources), go ahead and pop me a Dmail, let me skim your account for a bit, and I'll decide then and there how you can see the rest.

In the meantime, I'll be around to answer any questions people have regarding this... "thing" I'm doing. I also have ideas for other threads, such as a upload request thread (where approvers and users with unrestricted uploads post content for others to tag and upload for them when they might not be able to get to it), or a more general "upload advice" thread than the one we have that basically gives feedback about deleted uploads.

That's it from me. Happy uploading, and throw out any ideas you have if you have any. I do want to see the uploading scene improve right now, and I think it's been too long since anyone's really "shared" their uploading trade secrets in such a public setting.

EDIT: My guide is now private. The old guide is outdated while the new one isn't, but the new guide will remain private indefinitely unless a solution to the credit-whoring situation is something I'm satisfied with. See topic #14857.

Not to mention sweeping changes to pixiv's interface is making me concerned over the health of both site notifications, scripts, and the availability and accessibility of the site API. So it's probably better, in the larger scheme of things, to just keep these sort of things under wraps.

If you would like to join my private discord, then see the above requirements.

Bump.

Anyways, among a few other proposals and discussions, I suppose this will be my final, parting gift, as I can't imagine myself continuing to feel the way I do about this site, the credit hoarding and stealing, when nobody should really care long as all of that work is eventually here for all of us to enjoy.

Going to go into hiatus for a bit.

Published!

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to bump this thread or PM me, or something, iunno. I'm going into hiatus very soon, so the sooner you voice your concern the better.

Small update.

I published this in my Discord resources channel, but I might as well announce it here also. I revised the script yet again to fix a minor bug with older work URLs. Tampermonkey should get the update automatically, but if not (and you're not using the link with updates) then you can fetch it with the link I've provided in my guide.

One thing to note if you're confused about where purple highlighting is present (source mismatch). On a lot of older works you'll see them as purple when they really shouldn't be. This is because of how older pixiv URLs work -- they use a different URL scheme. Let's take post #1781047 for example:

• Old URL: http://i1.pixiv.net/img13/img/enxcanvas/45706040.jpg
• Current URL: https://i.pximg.net/img-original/img/2014/08/31/18/03/29/45706040_p0.jpg

The script doesn't actually download any images to your computer or computes any md5. It just looks for date changes (the part that reads something like 2014/08/31/18/03/29). However, in cases like those, where no date is present in the source URL on danbooru's servers, it just assumes by default a source mismatch (which isn't necessarily a md5 mismatch, it just indicates the source needs to be updated).

There hasn't been an effort to update all the old pixiv URLs -> new URLs through automation/script yet, which is why I'm considering poking RaisingK about it to fix all those if anyone really desires to see that.

EDIT: And um, wow. 150 more views over a week. :thinking:

@Mikaeri

When the Danbooru source doesn't have a date, you can query the pixiv API to see if the image has ever been revised. That's what my bad pixiv id scan already does--if an image has been revised on pixiv, it either adds md5 mismatch or updates the source to the new URL. But if it hasn't, it's left alone.

Tweaking the scan to update non-revised sources would be easy, and old style URLs are less valuable since Danbooru normalizes to profile links now, but I'm still reluctant to do a blanket replacement...

RaisingK said:

@Mikaeri

When the Danbooru source doesn't have a date, you can query the pixiv API to see if the image has ever been revised. That's what my bad pixiv id scan already does--if an image has been revised on pixiv, it either adds md5 mismatch or updates the source to the new URL. But if it hasn't, it's left alone.

Tweaking the scan to update non-revised sources would be easy, and old style URLs are less valuable since Danbooru normalizes to profile links now, but I'm still reluctant to do a blanket replacement...

Yup. There's no reason to change an already correct "old" URL, I suppose. But yeah, it would be very helpful if you could do a blanket update for all the older pixiv sources (even though it isn't necessarily required). I don't think there would be any harm in doing so either, unless it'd be expensive somehow (such as regenerating the pixiv_id's in the table, though this sounds somewhat trivial).

On a side note, a similar API function also exists for Seiga posts that BrokenEagle98 let me know about (albeit PISAS-like support for that would be difficult as already explained by a comment thread on the original PISAS greasyfork page).

Yeah, better keep this under the rug for time being.