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I have a few links to art where the original post is deleted but I am trying to find them
I would like to see whether these have been uploaded here, but I do not whether I can search Danbooru by source URL?
Example:
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Using source: would do that, so something like source:pixiv.net/artworks/101584077 or source:*/101584077, but those don't seem to have been uploaded.
For pixiv you can use pixiv:101584077 etc. Source searches won't work with pixiv posts specifically because danbooru internally saves the image url, not the post url.
For other sources you'll have to search for partial urls, because for example for twitter it could've been uploaded under an X source. So, source:*/1551175505394556928.
For Pixiv, you can't use source: like that, because each Pixiv post has its source rendered through its direct image link - using post #3412313 as an example, while it shows that its source is https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/73088449, looking at the source field while editing the post shows that it is actually https://i.pximg.net/img-original/img/2019/02/09/21/47/20/73088449_p0.jpg, with the data from the link allowing the visual source to be reconstructed.
Then you'd think, ok, then I'll do source:*pximg*101584077*, but there's no guarantee that'd work either depending on whether or not the post was uploaded after the source became unavailable (since then you can't exactly grab that direct image link, at least not as efficiently). That's why the pixiv: search function exists. pixiv:73088449 nets me my example post from earlier, so regardless of whether or not it is a direct image link, that search function should always work if the post with that given source is on Danbooru - and well, pixiv:101584077 shows nothing, so it seems not to have been uploaded.
