DeviantArt Ripper not using the official API

[Shingedo]

After browsing the issues in regards to DeviantArt and encountering multiple issues like #1068, #892, #811, etc. and then diving into the code myself, I was pondering why the Ripper doesn't use the official API https://www.deviantart.com/developers/ ?

As far as I can see it currently uses an unofficial endpoint https://www.deviantart.com/dapi/v1/gallery/ which might be the reason for many issues, for example the issue of not being able to sort the pictures in the right order.

I was interested why that is before starting to implement a new Ripper based on the official API if someone else already encountered a "showstopper" with this approach.

[Hrxn]

You sure that this is the new API?
As far as I know, dA was bought by website building company Wix a while ago, but they moved the whole site to their own CDN infrastructure or something only pretty recently.
I guess this is when these recent issues started to appear, because the old API might not work (properly) anymore.

The new API URL scheme looks something like this https://api-da.wixmp.com/_api/... from what I can see after a cursory glance.

[Shingedo]

Well I wouldn't call it "new", it has been around since 2014:
https://www.deviantart.com/muteor/journal/All-new-DeviantArt-API-492518964

The thing is the ripper never used it as far as i can see, it instead uses the internal logic of the gallery HTML page with POST requests to https://www.deviantart.com/dapi/v1/gallery/ which I personally couldn't really understand because i haven't found a reference to it anywhere. Even in HTML site, except a form for uploading that targets https://www.deviantart.com/dapi/v1/submit/upload

It is like this since 17a3e4e , so perhabs @cyian-1756 can shed some light on why he used it and where he found it.

Also where have you found information/references regarding this new API https://api-da.wixmp.com/_api ?

[Hrxn]

Okay, just as I thought, this is not the new API then. You're probably right about RipMe and its utilization (or rather lack thereof) of said API, but there is at least one other project here on GitHub with support for dA, and this has been using the API so far, and as far as I know there have been some issues recently as well, maybe it is not even working properly at all right now.

Also where have you found information/references regarding this new AP

Well, I haven't seen any official documentation so far. The purchase of dA was in 2017, I think, you can still find the news about it by doing a simple web search. But the transition of their site backend has been not long ago, I've read about that too but I don't really know where. For this example URL I've just visited the dA main page and clicked through some artworks/deviations until I found one that had this Download button on the right-hand side of the page. The URL has been the resulting link from that button.

[metaprime]

[Mega-Thread] DeviantArt ripper is broken; yes we know -- de-duping all other DeviantArt issues to this one. #2063