<h3class="warning">This is a bit out of date! I'll give it another pass soon!</h3>
<pclass="warning">Do not try to create a subscription until you are comfortable with a normal gallery download page! Go <ahref="getting_started_downloading.html">here</a>.</p>
<p>Subscriptions are a way of telling the client to quietly and regularly repeat a gallery search. The client will sync with the gallery and download any new files behind the scenes, just as if you were running the download yourself.</p>
<p>Here the client is set to search gelbooru for 'blue_eyes' every seven days. It will keep fetching gallery pages, starting at the first page, generating new media urls, until:</p>
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<li>It has never run before and reaches the last page in the gallery.</li>
<li>It has never run before and has found as many files as the 'initial sync file limit'.</li>
<li>It has run before and discovers a url it has previously seen.</li>
<p>Once it has finished adding urls, it will visit each new one in turn and strip out the file and any tags you have set it to parse. <b>Urls it has checked in previous runs will not be rechecked, and tags will not be retroactively fetched.</b></p>
<p>You don't really have to care about this all that much; it just lets you know what it is doing. The 'show x files' button is useful just to quickly make sure it is getting what you meant it to. Once it is done, it will collapse down and wait for you to dismiss it with a right click.</p>
<p>If I were to leave the subscription in place for seven days, it would recheck blue_eyes and download every single new file until it hit whichever of those ten is the newest.</p>
<p>If you set a subscription to have no initial file limit on a simple query--say, blue_eyes on gelbooru--it will attempt to parse, at current count, 581,509 files. This would take a very long time and it would use a lot of gelbooru's bandwidth--enough that they probably have a system in place to ban your IP for it. Even if you set a reasonable initial file count, the sheer number of new blue_eyes files every week is probably a bit too large.</p>
<p>So, I suggest you start with artist searches to begin with. These usually top out at about 1,000 files total and a handful of new files every week/month, and also hence don't take all that long. Once you are more confident, try doing multiple-tag queries. I suggest you leave simple single-tag queries for the manual download page, where you can hit 'that's enough' yourself.</p>
<p>If you <i>do</i> put in a huge search, and the 'found x new files for subscription y' message is climbing terrifyingly higher and higher with no end in sight, just hit the pause button on the popup. You can also pause all current subscriptions from even starting at <i>services->pause->subscriptions synchronisation</i>. Then you can go back into the dialog and remove or edit at your own pace.</p>
