Furarchiver 4.3

Financial support

Furarchiver will always be free of charge, and will never show ads or track your page visits. We are currently storing approximately 3270 GB of data. To support furarchiver.net, you can use various currencies:

• Bitcoin: 1AWDGLcdn89WqB5NoGfPczBNFieFYzwqVF
• Dogecoin: DUSHPUMM3gr8t6QEYBnZdV4BtqykG7AZCw
• Dashcoin: XjmsUARouxyk8APWZ14MAbY1mvxtjZBTqR
• Ethereum: 0x90f3039a8491cc018787618b4a1f4534f8b857f0
• Monero: 87VxmUwJ4732isC2fd21SBYFojUdGZj8ZFFyFkvTsnSGYyztCyqGXty22adi9tdfJkBc24ubRX6x5QHqcjrcXYmzFFMwASr

Furarchiver uses a 3rd party service to obtain all data from FA. The author of said service can be supported via bitcoin but he also explicitly states that he doesn't needs them. The given Bitcoin address is: 128ukWYj43VtDkLt3VRPokDfHtaj6pyv27

Settings

Bugs & Features

This tool is neither monitored for functionality nor maintained automatically. Contact me (furarchiver@bitm.sg) if it no longer works, or if you feel like something important is missing. The update history is at the bottom of this page.

Archive availability

Please note that outages are somewhat common because the archive is quite unstable. Whenever possible, automatic retries are used if the response was not satisfactory. If the warnings in the log keep stacking up it's usually a good idea to close the site and try again later.

Downloading content

This tool can download the files for you and pack them inside a zip archive. Due to browser limitations, this will eat up a lot of memory, because we have to load all files into memory before we can process them. This means you need at least as much memory as the gallery size is. Creating the zip file is also very slow. We try to optimize this by not compressing files that are already compressed, for example most image and audio types.

Cache

This tool keeps a cache of requested files indefinitely. This will speed up downloading content of common artists a lot. If the cache is identical to the archive content, the zip file will be generated on the server rather than your browser to use better compression and increase the overal speed.
Additionally, since version 4.0, directory scans are cached for 24 hours.

Manual download

A list of links is provided that you can feed into a download manager of your choice if you want to manually download the files. Be sure to use a download manager that sends a proper "User-Agent" header field. Command line tools like cURL and wget are not going to work, unless you specify a somewhat descriptive user agent manually.
The generated links are unique for your IP address

History

Version 1.0: Initial version

• List files
• Download files
• Zip files

Version 1.1: Speed up

• Multiple parallel downloads to accelerate tasks
• Persistent server cache

Version 1.2: Adblock warning

• Detect adblock and warn user about potential issues

Version 1.3: Better cache utilization

• Download zip directly from the server if the archive is complete

Version 2.0: UI improvements

• Show occasional preview image
• Progress bar
• Randomize file list to achieve a more even distribution
• Version history now public

Version 2.1: New domain

• This tool is now using furarchiver.net as primary domain

Version 3.0: Increase server performance

• Users are banned for the day if too many downloads fail because their connection stalls.

Version 4.0: Gotta go fast

• Most galleries do not update too often, but every time a gallery is requested, the backend had to check. There's now a cache in place which allows for new gallery checks at most once per day.

Version 4.1: New storage

• The cache has been moved to a storage that won't run out in the forseeable future.

Version 4.2: Settings

• This info dialog now contains a "settings" section. More settings may come in the future.

Version 4.3: Better usability

• New setting to reduce parallel requests for users with bad connections
• Progress bar also shows the zip creation progress
• Cache counter updates dynamically as you download new content
• Cache counter shows how many files are missing
• Added Ethereum donation address
• Special file name characters no longer "percent encoded"
• Image preview will show every image