Commons:Download tools

There are several tools to help download media from Wikimedia Commons.

Standalone desktop applications

Imker

A Java-based tool to download from categories.

Command-line tools

Several libraries/scripts exist in various languages:

• Java
• Python 3 — fast, asynchronous, and recursive
• Python 2 — Python 3 isn't available
• Google Colab – Python
• gallery-dl — universal image downloader, written in Python 3.4
• Ruby
• Shell
• Alternate shell
• PHP — download all files in a category and its subcategories, and also save all pages names (files and others) to a text file for using with Special:Export.
• Perl

Other

• wikilovesdownloads, which generate the list of files to download (for a download manager)

See also

• Commons:Dumps and backups