Fandom Wiki Image Downloader: Categories in One Go
Save the pictures of a Fandom wiki on your computer: everything filed under a category, all the images an article shows, or every file the wiki holds. Each comes as the original that was uploaded, not the thumbnail the page displays.
How to Download Images from a Fandom Wiki
On a Fandom wiki every picture has a file page with its full-size original, one picture at a time. For a category's worth in one go, three steps:
One-time setup: download NeoDownloader and install it. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The steps below are what you repeat each time.
- 1Cats Wikicats.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Images_of_Domestic_Cats
Find the Category or the Article
On the wiki, open the category that gathers the pictures you want - its address holds /wiki/Category: - or the article whose images you are after, and copy the address.
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ProjectsNew projectWhat do you want to download?
cats.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Images_of_Domestic_Cats
NextPaste It into NeoDownloader
Open New project in NeoDownloader with the copied address. Gallery Downloader reads Fandom wikis through their own interface, and the project is called after the category or article; click Next.
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Name and folder
Category_Images_of_Domestic_Cats
Create projectCollect the Pictures
Decide where the pictures go and press Create project. Each file arrives in its uploaded size, and a category's subcategories are worked through as well.
Fandom Downloader for Original Files
A wiki page shows its pictures scaled to fit. NeoDownloader asks the wiki for each file itself, at the size it was uploaded, and names it as the wiki does with a short code from the file's checksum, as in Kittens in a Basket (2cf7ba06).jpg, so two uploads with one name do not overwrite each other.
The files of one page or category share a folder named after it.
Download All Images from a Fandom Wiki
Three sizes of the same request: one article's pictures, a category with everything under it, or the wiki's home address, which takes every file the wiki holds. Start with a category on a large wiki; the whole of one is a great many files.
Fandom Links NeoDownloader Accepts
- A category - the wiki's address, then /wiki/Category: and its name
- An article - the wiki's address, then /wiki/ and the article's title
- One file - /wiki/File: and its name
- A whole wiki - its name and .fandom.com alone, also typed without https://
Fandom Downloads Beyond One Link at a Time
Services that save a single link stop at that link. NeoDownloader starts from an address, goes through all it leads to, files everything beside the page it came from, and on a later run skips what it already has.
Fandom Downloader FAQ
How do I download all images from a Fandom wiki category?
Copy the category's address, the one with /wiki/Category: in it, and paste it into “New project”. Its files and those of its subcategories go into one project.
Can I download every image on a Fandom wiki?
Yes. Paste the wiki's home address and the project takes all the files the wiki holds. On a large wiki that is a lot; a category is often the better start.
Does it download the full-size images?
Yes. The thumbnail on a page is a scaled copy; NeoDownloader requests each original file from the wiki.
Do I need a Fandom account?
No. The pictures a wiki shows to readers download without signing in to Fandom.
Is there a free Fandom downloader?
Yes. NeoDownloader costs nothing to get, and it takes Fandom the same way in both versions. The free version has no time limit; Premium lifts its limits on the number of files per project.
Keep a Wiki's Pictures Close at Hand
Paste a category's address and its pictures wait in a folder of your own, every one an original. The free version has no time limit.
Available for Windows, Mac and Linux