Booru mass editor

Use the Booru mass editor (BME) to quickly edit individual images at websites running Gelbooru software. BME also imporves the interface at index.php?page=post&s=view&id=# and elsewhere.

Required additional software

To use BME you must have the following software:

• A web browser:
  • Firefox - BME works best in Mozilla Firefox.
  • Chrome (ew) - I haven't tested BME in Google Chrome in one or more years, so it probably will not work.
  • BME probably will not work in the following: Opera, Microsoft Edge, and Internet Explorer.
• A userscript add-on:
  • Greasemonkey for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
  • Tampermonkey for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo
  • (I think a usercript add-on exists for Opera, but I don't know what it is called.)
  • (Does a userscript add-on exist for Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer?)

Required or highly recommended additional software

Add these types of add-ons to your web broswer:

• An add-on that only loads a tab when you select/view that tab
  • I use LoadTabOnSelect: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/loadtabonselect/
• Optional, but very helpful: An add-on that opens multiple links after one click-and-drag
  • I use Snap Links: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snaplinksplus/
  • If you can run PHP files use this type of link opening software in conjunction with a booru crawler that I wrote: GetIDs.php (I don't know if GetIDs.php still works).

How to use this software

Functionality

BME will work on websites that run the following software:

• Gelbooru Beta 0.1.11: what most hostnames on booru.org use; BME works best on this variant of Gelbooru. ("Hostname" referes to the * in *.example.com; it is also called a "subdomain".)
• Gelbooru Beta 0.2 (more featuers planned to be added).
• Gelbooru Beta 0.2.0 or Gelbooru Beta 0.2.5 (more featuers planned to be added).

Editing upgrades

Add these tags at the ID page or at Account > Options > My Tags (no one or more of the same tag(s) should be in "My Tags", use , for commas in "My Tags", and don't add too much text because the data cookie can only hold two paragraphs max):

• To change the rating add: r:s;r; (changes the rating to safe)
• To replace tags add: re:bad_tag1_>_good_tag1|re:bt1_>_bt1|re:bt2_>_gt2;re; (replaces multiple tags) or re:bad_tag_>_good_tag;re; (only replaces one tag)
• To add tags add: add:x|y|z;add; (adds tags x, y, and z) or add:x;add; (only adds x)
• To remove tags add: re:x_>_|y_>_|z_>_;re; (removes tags x, y, and z) or re:x_>_;re; (only removes x)
• To add the "tagme" tag if an image has less than a certain amount of tags add: tagmeif:lt#;endif; where # is, examples: tagmeif:lt5;endif; and tagmeif:lt10;endif;
• To implicate tags use: im:particular_>_general;im; or im:all_>_tag|implications_>_are|based_>_on|inductive_>_reasoning;im; here is 268 pages of implications: http://danbooru.donmai.us/tag_implications
• To submit the aforementioned changes when the page loads add: op:onload;op;; this bullet point is why this script is called a "mass editor": careful using this one. DO NOT add aliased tags because it will submit the form a bunch of times which results in duplicate tag history revisions. For the script's functionality with a newer version, if Firefox, go to about:config to change dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows to true so get it to work as it does on Google Chrome.

Post list improvements

• Keyboard shortcuts
• Fix ' in links: %26%23039%3B → %27
• Fix " in links: %26quot%3B → %22
• Hide adverts:
  • link with href matching: https://www.patreon.com/booru
  • ("#bottom") (for the newer version)
  • ("#top") (for the newer version)
• Compact view (done): switch on or off (future)
• Remove excess space at the bottom
• Improve ("#header") and rearrange links to the blank ("#long-notice") part
• Future:
  • Fix pagination
  • Pagination links length based on page width

Future updates

For newer versions of Gelbooru:

• Get the form to display automatically instead of having to click "Edit" to unhide it - done, I think
• Other stuff: this script is not finished
• Regular expression replacements and removals at &id= pages
• Test and maybe fix at rule34.xxx, Gelbooru.com, etc.
• Fix immediate closer of 1st page opened (but not all subsequent pages in such a way) if op:onload;op; at xbooru.com.
• Get BME to work with WebMs in rule34.xxx (it works with WebMs in xbooru.com).

Trends and information

The newer the software the more tags a booru has:

• Gelbooru version Beta 0.1.11
  • Users could post images with no tags resulting in the images having the "tagme" tag
  • Many boorus have vast image dumps with no tags (for example, 80% images at meme.booru.org have no tags (out of 30,000 images total))
  • Thus, many boorus really need to be tagged.
• Gelbooru versions equal to or greater than "Beta 0.2" (the newest version takes 15 seconds per page when mass tag editing):
  • The software forces users to have at least 4 tags
  • The software is not free so the popularity of the booru has to pay for the software's cost
  • Basically they mainly contain popular content that is very well tagged so add tags to boorus with older free (price = $0) Gelbooru software!

See also

Seedmanc's userscripts:

• Booru mass uploader
• Booru Augmentation Project (my fork)