da-cli-deviantart-sync

Install da-cli with pipx, register an OAuth app on the DeviantArt developers portal, set your client_id and client_secret with da config set, then run da auth followed by da sync feed or da sync artist username. Downloads go to the destination folder you configure.

On macOS, create a launchd plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents with a StartCalendarInterval and load it with launchctl. On Linux, create a systemd user service and timer with OnCalendar=daily, then enable it with systemctl --user and run loginctl enable-linger.

No, da-cli has zero runtime dependencies and uses only the Python 3.10+ standard library. Python 3.10 is the minimum because the tool relies on argparse.BooleanOptionalAction and X | None type syntax.

The error occurs when the redirect URI registered in your DeviantArt app does not exactly match what da-cli sends. Set the whitelist entry to https://localhost:8765/ including the trailing slash, and verify with da config get redirect_uri.

da-cli saves a checkpoint every 50 deviations by default, so re-running da sync feed automatically resumes from the last checkpoint. You can adjust the interval with da config set checkpoint_interval or force a fresh start with da index rebuild.

The client secret is stored in macOS Keychain under the da-cli service, while OAuth tokens live in ~/.local/state/da-cli/state.json with 0600 permissions. PKCE code verifiers are generated per auth flow and never leave the machine.