[Deviantart] Extended Metadata

[vandervast]

Looking for a way to extract number of views of each deviation.

There's no mention of "views" or "view count" for DeviantArt in the docs, so I can only assume it's not supported. This would be a very useful metric to have access to, so I hope it'll included in the "stats" group along with favorites and comment count!

[rautamiekka]

Doesn't seem like DA exposes that info in either the -K output or the JSON, even the website doesn't offer it in any precision once 1k is reached, so either you'll have to scrape it off the website or forget about it.

[mikf]

DA's private API seems to expose the exact view count as deviation -> stats -> views (https://www.deviantart.com/_puppy/dadeviation/init?deviationid=...), but gallery-dl currently uses DA's public API and that, as rautamiekka said, does not provide this information.

[vandervast]

Thank you for looking into this and explaining the nature of the problem!
It's unfortunate that there's no easy solution, but at least the answers are here for anyone else wondering about this.

[mdashlw]

DA's private API seems to expose the exact view count as deviation -> stats -> views (https://www.deviantart.com/_puppy/dadeviation/init?deviationid=...), but gallery-dl currently uses DA's public API and that, as rautamiekka said, does not provide this information.

This endpoint seems to provide exact views
https://www.deviantart.com/developers/console/deviation/deviation_metadata/7824fc14d6fba6acbacca1cf38c24158

[mikf]

But only when explicitly requesting them with ext_stats=1, which does not happen at the moment (current parameters). Time to extend DA's metadata option ...

[Twi-Hard]

Is there any other metadata that's currently left out that you can include now?

[mikf]

Quite a lot, it seems. All the ext_... parameters for /deviation/metadata are currently not enabled.

[Twi-Hard]

Adding all of that extra metadata sounds really nice. :)

Edit: is it possible to make gallery-dl exit if the refresh token expires?

[mikf]

This time I'm not going to wait several months before starting to work on this, don't worry.

Exiting when a refresh token is expired should be possible with the undocumented actions option.

    "actions": {
        "error:The refresh_token is invalid": "exit"
    }

[mikf]

741fd00.

Should be fully functional, but I'm currently limiting the number of requested deviation objects to 10 when extended metadata is requested to make things easier. (DA allows fetching extended metadata of only 10 deviations at a time)

Regarding this issue's initial request: "metadata": "stats"