Discrepancy between Pixiv website search and Pixiv Grabber search

[Atulin]

Bug description

Let's take the tag ギャランドゥ as an example. On Pixiv I see 172 results of mostly girls. In Grabber, the very same keyword returns 278 results of mostly man.

No, I do not have any tags blacklisted.

Steps to reproduce

1. Search for ギャランドゥ on Pixiv
2. Search for ギャランドゥ in Grabber with Pixiv source

Expected behavior

Both searches return the exact same results

Context

• main.log
• settings.zip

Screenshots (NSFW)

First page in Grabber  First page in Pixiv 

System information

• Win10
• Grabber 7.1.0 x64

[Bionus]

What you're seeing are the logged out Pixiv results. If you logout of Pixiv then navigate to https://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag&order=date_d&p=1&word=ギャランドゥ, you'll see that those are the same Grabber shows.

You need to log into Pixiv via Grabber to see the same results as a logged in user. To do so, open the "Sources" window, then click "Options" for Pixiv, and add your username and password in the "Login" tab (you don't need to change the consumer key and secret). After you're done, clicking the "Test" button should show "Success".

[Atulin]

Thing is, I am logged in. Or at least I should be, if the test button is to be believed.

[fanboy01]

I'm having the same issue as Atulin

Pixiv and Grabber results are not matching up.

I already added my login information in Grabber but I'm still seeing the "logout" results.

I could be wrong but could this bug/issue have something to do with OAuth2?

I use a different app to download from pixiv and that app had some issues with OAuth.

https://github.com/Nandaka/PixivUtil2/issues/483

[VeggieJay]

Still same issue on latest version - pixiv login successful but full results not showing

[Bionus]

Okay so after investigation, the results are different because the API uses the "Title, caption" search mode by default instead of the "Tag" mode which is the default on the website search (and which you can change in the search settings).

So for OP's example:

• Normal search: https://www.pixiv.net/search.php?word=ギャランドゥ ⚠️ NSFW
• Grabber's results: https://www.pixiv.net/search.php?word=ギャランドゥ&s_mode=s_tc ⚠️ NSFW

I'll see what I can do for this, bug Grabber currently uses the "works" API which does not allow changing the search mode. Allowing it would require moving to the "illust search" API.

[Bionus]

Okay, so I made Grabber follow the default Pixiv search. I also added the mode:full, mode:partial, and mode:tc for choosing between different search modes.

The default is partial (Pixiv's default). tc switches back to the "works" API which is more complete.