For easily grabbing the URL of every post on Rule34.xxx with your
tags of choice, allowing artists to submit DMCA requests without the
hassle of manually doing copy-pasting hundreds of URLs.
How to use:
Type in your artist tag on Rule34 (e.g. furfnsfw). Click Grab URLs. If
successful, the Results box should fill up with URLs to copy. Each
URL-grab only gets around 100 entries at a time, so increase the Page
number to get the next set of URLs. If URLs stop getting added to the
list, you have either hit the end of posts with that tag, or may have
been timed-out for making too many requests to Rule34's servers too
quickly.
Once satisfied, take your compiled URLs and send an email to DMCA@booru.org
to request a takedown of your content. You will need to provide proof
that you are the artist in question (such as a screenshot of your
accounts, no personal details are necessary). Check their requirements for a proper DMCA takedown request here.
Things of note: This tool does not check for posts with multiple artists. It's very literal and just grabs the URLs of any posts with the tags you give it and puts it in a convenient list for you. I do not take responsibility for any posts removed in error.
Please take time to curate the list of URLs, filter out tags using
minus signs (e.g. MrArtist123 -penis -furfnsfw), and make sure you own
the art in question, as your takedown request may not be deemed
legitimate if you start targeting artwork not owned by you.
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FAQ
Q: How does this work?
This page was built using JSFiddle, and is my first dive into jQuery, so it's probably sloppy and inefficient, but works all the same. Everything runs in the browser client-side, so my server hosting the page doesn't process anything inbetween. Basically, the page reads the text in the Tags box, reads which Page you've selected, and sends a fetch/jQuery Ajax request to Rule34's API. The API then returns a list of JSON objects with each relevant posts details. In this case, we only want the post IDs, so we grab all the IDs and slap them on the end of "https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=[POST ID GOES HERE]". Do that for each post we have so far and append it into the Results box.
Q: Can you make the links clickable so you can curate/check each post easier?
In theory, yes, I could make the links just append to the page itself as links instead of into the textbox, but it's easier to just copy-paste from the textbox (since "Select All" just selects the textbox and not the entire page). Also if you have concerns about mis-tagged or incorrect posts, it's best to just go to Rule34's website, search the same exact tags you used here, and visually skim the results.
Q: How should I format my DMCA takedown request?
I don't have a definitive answer, but the way I went about it was structured like so:
"This is a formal takedown request of my copyrighted content currently being hosted on Rule34.xxx.
I request the removal of the following [number] posts:
[URLs go here]
[insert reason for takedown request here, optional]
See the following link and/or attached images as evidence that I am the artist and copyright holder:
[insert evidence that you are the artist here]
Regards,
[artist name]"
(Basically just replace the stuff in brackets, get rid of the quotation marks. Expect an email from Kielan/Mr. K in return begging you to reconsider your decision.)
Q: Why?
I made this because I submitted a DMCA takedown request against Rule34.xxx/Booru.org myself a few days before making this. My reason for doing so was their staff prohibiting the use of transgender tags on their site and subsequently replacing transgender tags with "futanari". The owner gave nothing but half-assed excuses as to why (like claiming "trans people asked for this because futanari character kept getting tagged wrongly as trans" with zero evidence to back that up), and claimed the replacement with "futanari" was "done by a newer moderator who didn't know better". I say that's all damage-control bullshit, especially since other tags deemed "prohibited for requiring canon information" (their reasoning on their wiki for prohibiting trans tags) have yet to be purged to the same extent as trans tags. "Canon_couple" is equally seen as prohibited with moderators saying it "should be removed on sight", yet it thrives with over 26 thousand posts when I wrote my email. It's all bullshit, they can claim to be LGBTQ+ friendly and have such staff all they want, it's a shit site regardless and I didn't want to be associated or hosted there.
The process of filing a takedown request requires you to grab each individual URL of each post you want removed, and for artists with hundreds or thousands of posts on the site, it can be a massive chore to manually right-click > copy > paste every single one. So this was made to streamline that process.