At least Ex supports torrents and also has some custom p2p software which you can run (serves content) from which data can be siphoned off.
And what is served through their website is resized. So web-scraping is an inferior approach.
And what is served through their website is resized. So web-scraping is an inferior approach.
1. I'm scraping the resized galleries.
2. I don't have the Hath perk that makes the galleries full sized.
3. I don't have a phash-based fuzzy image deduplication system on top of all this (see https://github.com/fake-name/IntraArchiveDeduplicator). It's main purpose is to deduplicate manga (https://github.com/fake-name/MangaCMS).