Doesn't download media in best/original resolution

[startingstuffup]

I downloaded this fork of tumblr-utils yesterday (June 10, 2024) and comparing the media resolution with Tumblthree's downloaded files, this one is much smaller.

I downloaded a blog using the basic tumblr-backup blog-name command, and looking at the media files, an image was only 640x640 while on TumblThree it downloaded the image as 1024x1024. I haven't tried it out on gifs and videos yet, so I'm not sure what resolution they download as. Is there any way to always download the best possible resolution for the media?

[deepspaceaxolotl]

I've noticed the same issue. It seems it notes down the right data-orig-height and data-orig-width, but downloads the smaller version rather than the biggest available (example post where this happened for me; the full srcset including the biggest image available seems to be always available on the tumblr.com/dashboard/blog version of a post, though, so that would perhaps be a better target for downloading). Would really appreciate having this fixed since I've got some thousands of images I want to make sure are backed up properly in case of a worst case scenario with tumblr!

[deepspaceaxolotl]

It seems there is a way to access the "raw", full resolution image (bigger than the maximum 2000-something px images usually available) mikf/gallery-dl#3383, but it's not clear if it could be done via the API or not... if it could, it would be so good to have it integrated into this script, making it the de-facto best tumblr archiving solution! I can confirm that downloading an archive of one's blog provided by tumblr does include the full resolution images from reblogs, too, or at least it did in 2019 which is when my data is from.