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)