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+# rule34vault downloader ideas
+
+## User requirements / comments to keep
+
+- Download bookmarks for a public username; no authorization required.
+- Bookmark pages are available as `https://rule34vault.com/u/<username>?page=<n>`.
+- Only username should be required for normal use.
+- Use browser-like headers to reduce chance of request blocking/blocklisting.
+- Do **not** rely on `HEAD` only. Some servers may reject or mis-handle `HEAD`; use `GET` with streaming/range checks when needed.
+- For normal image posts, first try predictable original-file URLs:
+  - `https://rule34vault.com/posts/<prefix>/<post_id>/<post_id>.jpg`
+  - `https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/<prefix>/<post_id>/<post_id>.jpg`
+- `<prefix>` is the first digits group from the post id path. Example: post `1263322` uses prefix `1263`.
+- Some videos require opening the post page and extracting real `<video>/<source src=...>` URLs from the rendered HTML.
+- Create a plain text list of downloaded files in the same order they appear in bookmarks.
+- Plain txt state/log files are enough. Do **not** use SQLite.
+- Use multiple tries and exponential sleep after failures.
+- Project must use a new venv.
+
+## Real site structure inspected
+
+Inspected with browser-like headers from the project venv.
+
+### Video post example
+
+URL:
+
+```text
+https://rule34vault.com/post/738794
+```
+
+The page contains a real video element in returned HTML:
+
+```html
+<video controls loop class="video" style="aspect-ratio: 1280/720;">
+  <source type="video/mp4" src="https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/738/738794/738794.480.mp4">
+</video>
+```
+
+So video extraction should parse the post HTML with BeautifulSoup and collect:
+
+1. `video[src]`
+2. `video source[src]`
+3. fallback: any `source[src]` where `type` starts with `video/`
+
+For post `996379`, real page had multiple video sources:
+
+```text
+https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/996/996379/996379.720.hevc.mp4
+https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/996/996379/996379.480.mp4
+```
+
+Prefer broadly-compatible sources first, e.g. non-HEVC MP4 before HEVC if both exist.
+
+### Image post examples
+
+For:
+
+```text
+https://rule34vault.com/post/1263322
+```
+
+The page HTML contains a small display image:
+
+```html
+<img class="img" src="/posts/1263/1263322/1263322.small.jpg">
+```
+
+But the original image is available directly:
+
+```text
+https://rule34vault.com/posts/1263/1263322/1263322.jpg
+https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/1263/1263322/1263322.jpg
+```
+
+Both returned `200 image/jpeg` during inspection.
+
+Another inspected example:
+
+```text
+https://rule34vault.com/post/1263303
+```
+
+Sometimes the post page `img[src]` points only to a small/preview file:
+
+```text
+https://rule34vault.com/posts/1263/1263303/1263303.small.jpg
+```
+
+In this case the downloader must normalize the source URL to the original filename by removing the size suffix before the extension:
+
+```text
+https://rule34vault.com/posts/1263/1263303/1263303.jpg
+```
+
+This URL returned `200 image/jpeg` during inspection. Do not download `.small.jpg` when the corresponding original image exists.
+
+### Bookmark page structure
+
+On:
+
+```text
+https://rule34vault.com/u/krosh?page=6
+```
+
+Post links were **not** regular `<a href="/post/...">` links in the DOM. The bookmark data was inside:
+
+```html
+<script id="ng-state" type="application/json">...</script>
+```
+
+Relevant key looked like:
+
+```json
+"post:/api/v2/post/search/bookmarked/50311": {
+  "items": [
+    {"id": 1075647, "type": 0, ...},
+    {"id": 1081537, "type": 0, ...},
+    ...
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+Therefore bookmark extraction should prefer parsing `script#ng-state` JSON and reading `items` from the key starting with:
+
+```text
+post:/api/v2/post/search/bookmarked/
+```
+
+Keep item order exactly as found in that `items` array.
+
+The API also works directly as POST:
+
+```text
+POST https://rule34vault.com/api/v2/post/search/bookmarked/<user_id>
+```
+
+Examples observed:
+
+- Body `{"skip": 100, "take": 20}` returned 20 bookmark items.
+- Body `{"take": 20, "page": 6}` returned page-like bookmark items.
+
+Simplest robust path:
+
+1. Fetch profile page `/u/<username>?page=<page>`.
+2. Parse `ng-state`.
+3. Get user id from key `get:/api/v2/account/user/<username>`.
+4. Get bookmark items from `post:/api/v2/post/search/bookmarked/<user_id>`.
+5. Optionally use the direct POST API for pagination once user id is known.
+
+## Headers
+
+Use one shared `requests.Session()` with realistic headers:
+
+```python
+HEADERS = {
+    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 "
+                  "(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0 Safari/537.36",
+    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8",
+    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
+    "Connection": "keep-alive",
+    "Referer": "https://rule34vault.com/",
+}
+```
+
+For direct API POST, use:
+
+```python
+API_HEADERS = {
+    **HEADERS,
+    "Accept": "application/json,text/plain,*/*",
+    "Origin": "https://rule34vault.com",
+    "Content-Type": "application/json",
+}
+```
+
+For media download, set referer to the post page:
+
+```python
+headers = {**HEADERS, "Referer": f"https://rule34vault.com/post/{post_id}"}
+```
+
+## Retry policy
+
+Every network operation should use retry wrapper:
+
+```python
+for attempt in range(max_tries):
+    try:
+        ...
+    except requests.RequestException:
+        sleep = base_delay * (2 ** attempt)
+        time.sleep(sleep)
+```
+
+Also retry on temporary HTTP statuses:
+
+```text
+429, 500, 502, 503, 504
+```
+
+Do not retry permanent `404` for candidate media URLs; just try the next candidate.
+
+## Download order log
+
+Create a txt manifest in download order:
+
+```text
+download_order.txt
+```
+
+Append one line per successfully downloaded post, exactly in bookmark order:
+
+```text
+000001 1075647 downloads/1075/1075647.jpg https://rule34vault.com/posts/1075/1075647/1075647.jpg
+000002 1081537 downloads/1081/1081537.jpg https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/1081/1081537/1081537.jpg
+000003 996379 downloads/996/996379.mp4 https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/996/996379/996379.480.mp4
+```
+
+Also keep simple txt logs:
+
+```text
+seen.txt      # post ids already processed successfully
+failed.txt    # post id + reason
+skipped.txt   # already existing files
+```
+
+No SQLite.
+
+## Media resolution strategy
+
+For each bookmark item in order:
+
+1. If already downloaded, skip and log to `skipped.txt`.
+2. If `type == 0` image:
+   - Try original candidate URLs by extension and host.
+   - Use streaming `GET`, not only `HEAD`.
+   - Validate `status_code == 200` and `Content-Type` starts with `image/`.
+3. If candidates fail, fetch post page and parse actual HTML.
+   - For image posts, inspect `img[src]` values from the real post page.
+   - If the only discovered image is a display derivative such as `<post_id>.small.jpg`, `<post_id>.preview.jpg`, `<post_id>.thumbnail.jpg`, etc., derive and try the original URL without the size suffix before downloading:
+     - `1263303.small.jpg` -> `1263303.jpg`
+     - `1263303.preview.jpg` -> `1263303.jpg`
+   - Download the higher-resolution original when it returns a valid image response; use the derivative only as a last fallback if the original does not exist.
+4. For videos (`type == 1`) or if image candidates fail:
+   - Fetch `https://rule34vault.com/post/<post_id>`.
+   - Parse `<video>` and `<source>` tags.
+   - Choose best compatible source.
+5. Download media to grouped directory:
+
+```text
+downloads/<prefix>/<post_id>.<ext>
+```
+
+## Candidate URL generation
+
+For post id `1263322`:
+
+```python
+prefix = post_id[:4]
+```
+
+Candidate originals:
+
+```python
+hosts = [
+    "https://rule34vault.com",
+    "https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net",
+]
+
+extensions = ["jpg", "png", "webp", "gif"]
+
+for host in hosts:
+    for ext in extensions:
+        yield f"{host}/posts/{prefix}/{post_id}/{post_id}.{ext}"
+```
+
+For video direct guesses, possible candidates can be tried after HTML parsing or as fallback:
+
+```text
+<post_id>.480.mp4
+<post_id>.720.mp4
+<post_id>.720.hevc.mp4
+<post_id>.webm
+```
+
+But actual post HTML source extraction is preferred for videos.
+
+## CLI idea
+
+```bash
+python -m venv .venv
+. .venv/bin/activate
+pip install requests beautifulsoup4 tqdm
+python r34vault_downloader.py krosh --start-page 1 --end-page 10 --out downloads
+```
+
+Arguments:
+
+```text
+username              required
+--start-page          default 1
+--end-page            optional; stop when no items if omitted
+--out                 default downloads
+--tries               default 4
+--delay               default 0.5 seconds between posts
+--base-retry-delay    default 1.5 seconds
+--dry-run             print planned downloads without saving media
+```
+
+## Core functions
+
+```python
+make_session()
+request_with_retries(method, url, **kwargs)
+fetch_user_page(username, page)
+parse_ng_state(html)
+extract_user_id(ng_state, username)
+extract_bookmark_items_from_state(ng_state, user_id)
+fetch_bookmark_items_api(user_id, page=None, skip=None, take=20)
+candidate_image_urls(post_id)
+stream_download(url, dest, referer)
+extract_media_sources_from_post_html(post_id)
+choose_video_source(sources)
+already_downloaded(post_id, out_dir)
+append_download_order(index, post_id, path, source_url)
+append_failed(post_id, reason)
+main()
+```
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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 # rule34vault-downloader
-just python script to download your bookmarks from rule34.vault
+
+Python script to download public bookmarks from `rule34vault.com` for a username. No authorization is required for public bookmark pages.
+
+## Setup
+
+```bash
+python -m venv .venv
+. .venv/bin/activate
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+Download bookmarks for a user:
+
+```bash
+python r34vault_downloader.py <user> --out downloads
+```
+
+Download only a page range:
+
+```bash
+python r34vault_downloader.py <user> --start-page 1 --end-page 3 --out downloads
+```
+
+Process only the first N bookmark items, useful for testing:
+
+```bash
+python r34vault_downloader.py <user> --start-page 6 --end-page 6 --limit 1 --out downloads
+```
+
+## Output
+
+Files are grouped by Rule34Vault post prefix:
+
+```text
+downloads/
+  1263/
+    1263322.jpg
+  996/
+    996379.mp4
+  download_order.txt
+  seen.txt
+  failed.txt
+  skipped.txt
+```
+
+`download_order.txt` records successful downloads in bookmark order:
+
+```text
+000001 1263322 downloads/1263/1263322.jpg https://rule34vault.com/posts/1263/1263322/1263322.jpg
+```
+
+## Behavior
+
+- Uses browser-like headers and post-page `Referer` headers.
+- Uses streaming `GET`; it does not rely on `HEAD` requests.
+- Parses bookmark data from `script#ng-state` and preserves bookmark order.
+- Tries original image URLs first, for example `1263322.jpg`.
+- If a page image is only `1263303.small.jpg`, it tries `1263303.jpg` before falling back to the small file.
+- For videos, parses real `<video>` and `<source src="...">` elements from the post page.
+- Retries transient failures with exponential backoff.
+- Uses plain text logs only; no SQLite database.
+
+## Tests
+
+```bash
+. .venv/bin/activate
+pip install pytest
+pytest -q
+```
diff --git a/r34vault_downloader.py b/r34vault_downloader.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Download public Rule34Vault bookmarks for a username.
+
+Usage:
+    python r34vault_downloader.py krosh --start-page 1 --end-page 3 --out downloads
+
+The downloader uses public pages/API only; no credentials are required.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import mimetypes
+import re
+import sys
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Iterator
+from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse
+
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from requests import Response, Session
+from tqdm import tqdm
+
+SITE = "https://rule34vault.com"
+CDN = "https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net"
+RETRY_STATUSES = {429, 500, 502, 503, 504}
+IMAGE_EXTS = ("jpg", "png", "webp", "gif", "jpeg")
+VIDEO_EXTS = ("mp4", "webm", "mov", "m4v")
+DERIVATIVE_SUFFIXES = ("small", "preview", "thumbnail", "thumb", "medium", "large")
+
+HEADERS = {
+    "User-Agent": (
+        "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 "
+        "(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0 Safari/537.36"
+    ),
+    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8",
+    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
+    "Connection": "keep-alive",
+    "Referer": f"{SITE}/",
+}
+
+API_HEADERS = {
+    **HEADERS,
+    "Accept": "application/json,text/plain,*/*",
+    "Origin": SITE,
+    "Content-Type": "application/json",
+}
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class MediaSources:
+    images: list[str]
+    image_fallbacks: list[str]
+    videos: list[str]
+
+
+def make_session() -> Session:
+    session = requests.Session()
+    session.headers.update(HEADERS)
+    return session
+
+
+def request_with_retries(
+    session: Session,
+    method: str,
+    url: str,
+    *,
+    tries: int = 4,
+    base_retry_delay: float = 1.5,
+    retry_statuses: set[int] = RETRY_STATUSES,
+    **kwargs: Any,
+) -> Response:
+    """Run an HTTP request with exponential backoff for transient failures."""
+    last_exc: Exception | None = None
+    for attempt in range(tries):
+        try:
+            response = session.request(method, url, **kwargs)
+            if response.status_code not in retry_statuses:
+                return response
+            response.close()
+            last_exc = RuntimeError(f"HTTP {response.status_code} for {url}")
+        except requests.RequestException as exc:
+            last_exc = exc
+        if attempt < tries - 1:
+            time.sleep(base_retry_delay * (2**attempt))
+    if last_exc:
+        raise last_exc
+    raise RuntimeError(f"request failed without exception: {method} {url}")
+
+
+def fetch_user_page(session: Session, username: str, page: int, **retry_kwargs: Any) -> str:
+    url = f"{SITE}/u/{username}?page={page}"
+    response = request_with_retries(session, "GET", url, headers={**HEADERS, "Referer": f"{SITE}/"}, timeout=30, **retry_kwargs)
+    response.raise_for_status()
+    return response.text
+
+
+def parse_ng_state(html: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
+    script = soup.find("script", id="ng-state", type="application/json") or soup.find("script", id="ng-state")
+    if not script:
+        raise ValueError("script#ng-state was not found")
+    text = script.string or script.get_text() or ""
+    if not text.strip():
+        raise ValueError("script#ng-state is empty")
+    return json.loads(text)
+
+
+def extract_user_id(state: dict[str, Any], username: str) -> int:
+    key = f"get:/api/v2/account/user/{username}"
+    value = state.get(key)
+    if isinstance(value, dict):
+        for field in ("id", "userId"):
+            if isinstance(value.get(field), int):
+                return value[field]
+        data = value.get("data")
+        if isinstance(data, dict):
+            for field in ("userId", "id"):
+                if isinstance(data.get(field), int):
+                    return data[field]
+    # Fallback for case variations or encoded usernames.
+    suffix = f"/api/v2/account/user/{username}".lower()
+    for candidate_key, candidate_value in state.items():
+        if candidate_key.lower().endswith(suffix) and isinstance(candidate_value, dict):
+            data = candidate_value.get("data") if isinstance(candidate_value.get("data"), dict) else candidate_value
+            for field in ("userId", "id"):
+                if isinstance(data.get(field), int):
+                    return data[field]
+    raise ValueError(f"could not find public user id for {username!r} in ng-state")
+
+
+def extract_bookmark_items_from_state(state: dict[str, Any], user_id: int) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
+    exact = f"post:/api/v2/post/search/bookmarked/{user_id}"
+    value = state.get(exact)
+    if isinstance(value, dict) and isinstance(value.get("items"), list):
+        return list(value["items"])
+
+    prefix = "post:/api/v2/post/search/bookmarked/"
+    for key, candidate in state.items():
+        if key.startswith(prefix) and isinstance(candidate, dict) and isinstance(candidate.get("items"), list):
+            return list(candidate["items"])
+    return []
+
+
+def fetch_bookmark_items_api(
+    session: Session,
+    user_id: int,
+    *,
+    page: int | None = None,
+    skip: int | None = None,
+    take: int = 20,
+    **retry_kwargs: Any,
+) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
+    body: dict[str, int] = {"take": take}
+    if page is not None:
+        body["page"] = page
+    if skip is not None:
+        body["skip"] = skip
+    url = f"{SITE}/api/v2/post/search/bookmarked/{user_id}"
+    response = request_with_retries(session, "POST", url, headers=API_HEADERS, json=body, timeout=30, **retry_kwargs)
+    response.raise_for_status()
+    payload = response.json()
+    items = payload.get("items", [])
+    if not isinstance(items, list):
+        raise ValueError(f"unexpected API response shape from {url}")
+    return items
+
+
+def post_prefix(post_id: str) -> str:
+    """Return Rule34Vault media path prefix: 1263322 -> 1263, 738794 -> 738."""
+    return post_id[:-3] if len(post_id) > 3 else post_id
+
+
+def candidate_image_urls(post_id: str) -> Iterator[str]:
+    prefix = post_prefix(post_id)
+    for ext in IMAGE_EXTS:
+        yield f"{SITE}/posts/{prefix}/{post_id}/{post_id}.{ext}"
+        yield f"{CDN}/posts/{prefix}/{post_id}/{post_id}.{ext}"
+
+
+def candidate_video_urls(post_id: str) -> Iterator[str]:
+    prefix = post_prefix(post_id)
+    # Observed videos use 480/720 variants; the path prefix is post_id without the last 3 digits.
+    names = [
+        f"{post_id}.480.mp4",
+        f"{post_id}.720.mp4",
+        f"{post_id}.720.hevc.mp4",
+        f"{post_id}.mp4",
+        f"{post_id}.webm",
+    ]
+    for name in names:
+        yield f"{CDN}/posts/{prefix}/{post_id}/{name}"
+        yield f"{SITE}/posts/{prefix}/{post_id}/{name}"
+
+
+def original_from_derivative_url(url: str, post_id: str) -> str:
+    """Remove display-size suffix from Rule34Vault media filename if present."""
+    parsed = urlparse(url)
+    path = parsed.path
+    suffix_re = "|".join(map(re.escape, DERIVATIVE_SUFFIXES))
+    new_path = re.sub(rf"/{re.escape(post_id)}\.({suffix_re})(\.[A-Za-z0-9]+)$", rf"/{post_id}\2", path)
+    if new_path == path:
+        return url
+    if parsed.scheme and parsed.netloc:
+        return parsed._replace(path=new_path).geturl()
+    return new_path
+
+
+def _dedupe(items: Iterable[str]) -> list[str]:
+    seen: set[str] = set()
+    result: list[str] = []
+    for item in items:
+        if item and item not in seen:
+            seen.add(item)
+            result.append(item)
+    return result
+
+
+def extract_media_sources_from_html(html: str, post_id: str, page_url: str) -> MediaSources:
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
+    images: list[str] = []
+    image_fallbacks: list[str] = []
+    videos: list[str] = []
+
+    for video in soup.find_all("video"):
+        src = video.get("src")
+        if src:
+            videos.append(urljoin(page_url, src))
+        for source in video.find_all("source"):
+            src = source.get("src")
+            if src:
+                videos.append(urljoin(page_url, src))
+
+    for source in soup.find_all("source"):
+        src = source.get("src")
+        media_type = source.get("type", "")
+        if src and (media_type.startswith("video/") or Path(urlparse(src).path).suffix.lower().lstrip(".") in VIDEO_EXTS):
+            videos.append(urljoin(page_url, src))
+
+    for img in soup.find_all("img"):
+        src = img.get("src")
+        if not src:
+            continue
+        abs_url = urljoin(page_url, src)
+        path = urlparse(abs_url).path
+        if f"/{post_id}/" not in path or not path.lower().endswith(tuple(f".{ext}" for ext in IMAGE_EXTS)):
+            continue
+        original = urljoin(page_url, original_from_derivative_url(abs_url, post_id))
+        if original != abs_url:
+            images.append(original)
+            image_fallbacks.append(abs_url)
+        else:
+            images.append(abs_url)
+
+    for meta_name in ("og:image", "twitter:image"):
+        meta = soup.find("meta", attrs={"property": meta_name}) or soup.find("meta", attrs={"name": meta_name})
+        content = meta.get("content") if meta else None
+        if content:
+            abs_url = urljoin(page_url, content)
+            original = urljoin(page_url, original_from_derivative_url(abs_url, post_id))
+            if original != abs_url:
+                images.append(original)
+                image_fallbacks.append(abs_url)
+            else:
+                images.append(abs_url)
+
+    return MediaSources(images=_dedupe(images), image_fallbacks=_dedupe(image_fallbacks), videos=_dedupe(videos))
+
+
+def fetch_post_html(session: Session, post_id: str, **retry_kwargs: Any) -> str:
+    url = f"{SITE}/post/{post_id}"
+    response = request_with_retries(session, "GET", url, headers={**HEADERS, "Referer": SITE + "/"}, timeout=30, **retry_kwargs)
+    response.raise_for_status()
+    return response.text
+
+
+def choose_video_source(sources: list[str]) -> str | None:
+    if not sources:
+        return None
+
+    def score(url: str) -> tuple[int, int, int]:
+        lower = url.lower()
+        hevc_penalty = 1 if "hevc" in lower or "hvc1" in lower else 0
+        ext_rank = 0 if lower.endswith(".mp4") else 1
+        # Prefer compatible/non-HEVC; for compatibility, 480 mp4 before heavier variants.
+        resolution_rank = 0 if ".480." in lower else 1 if ".720." in lower else 2
+        return hevc_penalty, ext_rank, resolution_rank
+
+    return sorted(sources, key=score)[0]
+
+
+def response_extension(url: str, response: Response) -> str:
+    content_type = response.headers.get("content-type", "").split(";", 1)[0].strip().lower()
+    guessed = mimetypes.guess_extension(content_type) if content_type else None
+    if guessed == ".jpe":
+        guessed = ".jpg"
+    if guessed:
+        return guessed
+    suffix = Path(urlparse(url).path).suffix
+    return suffix or ".bin"
+
+
+def is_media_response(response: Response, media: str) -> bool:
+    if response.status_code != 200:
+        return False
+    content_type = response.headers.get("content-type", "").lower()
+    if media == "image":
+        return content_type.startswith("image/")
+    if media == "video":
+        return content_type.startswith("video/") or "mp4" in content_type or "webm" in content_type
+    return content_type.startswith(("image/", "video/"))
+
+
+def probe_media_url(
+    session: Session,
+    url: str,
+    *,
+    media: str,
+    post_id: str,
+    tries: int,
+    base_retry_delay: float,
+) -> Response | None:
+    headers = {**HEADERS, "Accept": "*/*", "Referer": f"{SITE}/post/{post_id}"}
+    try:
+        response = request_with_retries(
+            session,
+            "GET",
+            url,
+            headers=headers,
+            stream=True,
+            timeout=45,
+            tries=tries,
+            base_retry_delay=base_retry_delay,
+        )
+    except Exception:
+        return None
+    if is_media_response(response, media):
+        return response
+    response.close()
+    return None
+
+
+def destination_for(out_dir: Path, post_id: str, url: str, response: Response | None = None) -> Path:
+    ext = response_extension(url, response) if response is not None else Path(urlparse(url).path).suffix or ".bin"
+    return out_dir / post_prefix(post_id) / f"{post_id}{ext}"
+
+
+def stream_download_response(response: Response, dest: Path, chunk_size: int = 1024 * 256) -> int:
+    dest.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    tmp = dest.with_suffix(dest.suffix + ".part")
+    total = 0
+    with tmp.open("wb") as fh:
+        for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=chunk_size):
+            if not chunk:
+                continue
+            fh.write(chunk)
+            total += len(chunk)
+    tmp.replace(dest)
+    return total
+
+
+def already_downloaded(post_id: str, out_dir: Path) -> Path | None:
+    prefix_dir = out_dir / post_prefix(post_id)
+    if not prefix_dir.exists():
+        return None
+    matches = sorted(path for path in prefix_dir.glob(f"{post_id}.*") if path.suffix != ".part")
+    return matches[0] if matches else None
+
+
+def append_line(path: Path, line: str) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with path.open("a", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+        fh.write(line.rstrip("\n") + "\n")
+
+
+def append_download_order(manifest: Path, index: int, post_id: str, path: Path, source_url: str) -> None:
+    append_line(manifest, f"{index:06d} {post_id} {path.as_posix()} {source_url}")
+
+
+def read_seen(path: Path) -> set[str]:
+    if not path.exists():
+        return set()
+    return {line.strip().split()[0] for line in path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines() if line.strip()}
+
+
+def resolve_media(
+    session: Session,
+    item: dict[str, Any],
+    *,
+    tries: int,
+    base_retry_delay: float,
+) -> tuple[str, Response] | None:
+    post_id = str(item["id"])
+    post_type = int(item.get("type", 0))
+
+    if post_type == 0:
+        for url in candidate_image_urls(post_id):
+            response = probe_media_url(session, url, media="image", post_id=post_id, tries=tries, base_retry_delay=base_retry_delay)
+            if response:
+                return url, response
+
+    html = fetch_post_html(session, post_id, tries=tries, base_retry_delay=base_retry_delay)
+    sources = extract_media_sources_from_html(html, post_id, f"{SITE}/post/{post_id}")
+
+    if post_type == 1:
+        ordered_video_sources = []
+        chosen = choose_video_source(sources.videos)
+        if chosen:
+            ordered_video_sources.append(chosen)
+        ordered_video_sources.extend(url for url in sources.videos if url != chosen)
+        ordered_video_sources.extend(candidate_video_urls(post_id))
+        for url in _dedupe(ordered_video_sources):
+            response = probe_media_url(session, url, media="video", post_id=post_id, tries=tries, base_retry_delay=base_retry_delay)
+            if response:
+                return url, response
+    else:
+        for url in _dedupe([*sources.images, *sources.image_fallbacks]):
+            response = probe_media_url(session, url, media="image", post_id=post_id, tries=tries, base_retry_delay=base_retry_delay)
+            if response:
+                return url, response
+
+    return None
+
+
+def bookmark_items_for_pages(
+    session: Session,
+    username: str,
+    *,
+    start_page: int,
+    end_page: int | None,
+    take: int,
+    tries: int,
+    base_retry_delay: float,
+) -> Iterator[dict[str, Any]]:
+    """Yield bookmark items from public user pages, preserving page/DOM order.
+
+    The direct POST API exists, but observed `page` semantics did not exactly match
+    `/u/<username>?page=N`, so the downloader treats the public page as the
+    source of truth and parses its `script#ng-state` payload for each page.
+    """
+    del take  # kept as CLI/API option for future direct-API use; page HTML is authoritative now.
+    user_id: int | None = None
+    page = start_page
+    while True:
+        if end_page is not None and page > end_page:
+            break
+        html = fetch_user_page(session, username, page, tries=tries, base_retry_delay=base_retry_delay)
+        state = parse_ng_state(html)
+        if user_id is None:
+            user_id = extract_user_id(state, username)
+        items = extract_bookmark_items_from_state(state, user_id)
+        if not items:
+            break
+        for item in items:
+            yield item
+        page += 1
+
+
+def parse_args(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> argparse.Namespace:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Download public Rule34Vault bookmarks for a username")
+    parser.add_argument("username", help="Rule34Vault username, e.g. krosh")
+    parser.add_argument("--start-page", type=int, default=1, help="first bookmark page to fetch")
+    parser.add_argument("--end-page", type=int, help="last bookmark page to fetch; omitted means until empty")
+    parser.add_argument("--out", type=Path, default=Path("downloads"), help="output directory")
+    parser.add_argument("--tries", type=int, default=4, help="request attempts for transient failures")
+    parser.add_argument("--delay", type=float, default=0.5, help="sleep between posts")
+    parser.add_argument("--base-retry-delay", type=float, default=1.5, help="initial exponential retry sleep")
+    parser.add_argument("--dry-run", action="store_true", help="list bookmark ids that would be processed; do not download files")
+    parser.add_argument("--limit", type=int, help="maximum number of bookmark items to process after pagination")
+    return parser.parse_args(argv)
+
+
+def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
+    args = parse_args(argv)
+    out_dir: Path = args.out
+    out_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    manifest = out_dir / "download_order.txt"
+    seen_path = out_dir / "seen.txt"
+    failed_path = out_dir / "failed.txt"
+    skipped_path = out_dir / "skipped.txt"
+    seen = read_seen(seen_path)
+    session = make_session()
+    success_index = sum(1 for line in manifest.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines()) if manifest.exists() else 0
+
+    items = bookmark_items_for_pages(
+        session,
+        args.username,
+        start_page=args.start_page,
+        end_page=args.end_page,
+        take=20,
+        tries=args.tries,
+        base_retry_delay=args.base_retry_delay,
+    )
+
+    processed_count = 0
+    for item in tqdm(items, desc="bookmarks", unit="post"):
+        if args.limit is not None and processed_count >= args.limit:
+            break
+        processed_count += 1
+        post_id = str(item.get("id"))
+        if not post_id or post_id == "None":
+            append_line(failed_path, f"unknown invalid bookmark item {item!r}")
+            continue
+        existing = already_downloaded(post_id, out_dir)
+        if post_id in seen or existing:
+            append_line(skipped_path, f"{post_id} already downloaded {existing or ''}".rstrip())
+            continue
+
+        try:
+            if args.dry_run:
+                append_line(skipped_path, f"{post_id} dry-run")
+                continue
+            resolved = resolve_media(
+                session,
+                item,
+                tries=args.tries,
+                base_retry_delay=args.base_retry_delay,
+            )
+            if not resolved:
+                append_line(failed_path, f"{post_id} no media found")
+                continue
+            source_url, response = resolved
+            try:
+                dest = destination_for(out_dir, post_id, source_url, response)
+                size = stream_download_response(response, dest)
+            finally:
+                response.close()
+            success_index += 1
+            append_download_order(manifest, success_index, post_id, dest, source_url)
+            append_line(seen_path, f"{post_id} {dest.as_posix()} {size}")
+        except Exception as exc:  # keep batch running and log plain text failure
+            append_line(failed_path, f"{post_id} {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}")
+        time.sleep(args.delay)
+
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..41bd862
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+requests>=2.34
+beautifulsoup4>=4.15
+tqdm>=4.68
diff --git a/tests/test_r34vault_downloader.py b/tests/test_r34vault_downloader.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0924fbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_r34vault_downloader.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+import r34vault_downloader as dl
+
+
+def test_extract_bookmark_items_from_ng_state_preserves_order():
+    state = {
+        "get:/api/v2/account/user/krosh": {"id": 50311, "userName": "krosh"},
+        "post:/api/v2/post/search/bookmarked/50311": {
+            "items": [
+                {"id": 1075647, "type": 0},
+                {"id": 996379, "type": 1},
+                {"id": 1263322, "type": 0},
+            ]
+        },
+    }
+    html = f'<script id="ng-state" type="application/json">{json.dumps(state)}</script>'
+
+    parsed = dl.parse_ng_state(html)
+    user_id = dl.extract_user_id(parsed, "krosh")
+    items = dl.extract_bookmark_items_from_state(parsed, user_id)
+
+    assert user_id == 50311
+    assert [item["id"] for item in items] == [1075647, 996379, 1263322]
+
+
+def test_candidate_image_urls_prefers_original_rule34vault_then_cdn():
+    assert dl.post_prefix("1263322") == "1263"
+    assert dl.post_prefix("738794") == "738"
+    assert list(dl.candidate_image_urls("1263322"))[:4] == [
+        "https://rule34vault.com/posts/1263/1263322/1263322.jpg",
+        "https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/1263/1263322/1263322.jpg",
+        "https://rule34vault.com/posts/1263/1263322/1263322.png",
+        "https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/1263/1263322/1263322.png",
+    ]
+
+
+def test_original_from_derivative_url_removes_small_preview_suffix():
+    assert dl.original_from_derivative_url(
+        "https://rule34vault.com/posts/1263/1263303/1263303.small.jpg", "1263303"
+    ) == "https://rule34vault.com/posts/1263/1263303/1263303.jpg"
+    assert dl.original_from_derivative_url(
+        "/posts/1263/1263303/1263303.preview.webp", "1263303"
+    ) == "/posts/1263/1263303/1263303.webp"
+
+
+def test_extract_media_sources_from_post_html_finds_video_and_originalized_images():
+    html = """
+    <html><body>
+      <img class="img" src="/posts/1263/1263303/1263303.small.jpg">
+      <video controls>
+        <source type="video/mp4; codecs=hvc1" src="https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/996/996379/996379.720.hevc.mp4">
+        <source type="video/mp4" src="https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/996/996379/996379.480.mp4">
+      </video>
+    </body></html>
+    """
+
+    sources = dl.extract_media_sources_from_html(html, "1263303", "https://rule34vault.com/post/1263303")
+
+    assert "https://rule34vault.com/posts/1263/1263303/1263303.jpg" in sources.images
+    assert "https://rule34vault.com/posts/1263/1263303/1263303.small.jpg" in sources.image_fallbacks
+    assert sources.videos == [
+        "https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/996/996379/996379.720.hevc.mp4",
+        "https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/996/996379/996379.480.mp4",
+    ]
+
+
+def test_choose_video_source_prefers_non_hevc_mp4():
+    sources = [
+        "https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/996/996379/996379.720.hevc.mp4",
+        "https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/996/996379/996379.480.mp4",
+    ]
+
+    assert dl.choose_video_source(sources) == "https://r34xyz.b-cdn.net/posts/996/996379/996379.480.mp4"
+
+
+def test_append_download_order_writes_plain_text_manifest(tmp_path):
+    manifest = tmp_path / "download_order.txt"
+
+    dl.append_download_order(manifest, 3, "996379", Path("downloads/996/996379.mp4"), "https://example/file.mp4")
+
+    assert manifest.read_text() == "000003 996379 downloads/996/996379.mp4 https://example/file.mp4\n"