GALLERY-DL.CONF(5)

NAME
gallery-dl.conf - gallery-dl configuration file

DESCRIPTION
gallery-dl will search for configuration files in the following places every time it is started, unless --ignore-config is specified:

    /etc/gallery-dl.conf
    $HOME/.config/gallery-dl/config.json
    $HOME/.gallery-dl.conf

It is also possible to specify additional configuration files with the -c/--config command-line option or to add further option values with -o/--option as <key>=<value> pairs, Configuration files are JSON-based and therefore don't allow any ordinary comments, but, since unused keys are simply ignored, it is possible to utilize those as makeshift comments by settings their values to arbitrary strings.

EXAMPLE
{
    "base-directory": "/tmp/",
    "extractor": {
        "pixiv": {
            "directory": ["Pixiv", "Works", "{user[id]}"],
            "filename": "{id}{num}.{extension}",
            "username": "foo",
            "password": "bar"
        },
        "flickr": {
            "_comment": "OAuth keys for account 'foobar'",
            "access-token": "0123456789-0123456789abcdef",
            "access-token-secret": "fedcba9876543210"
        }
    },
    "downloader": {
        "retries": 3,
        "timeout": 2.5
    }
}

EXTRACTOR OPTIONS

  extractor.*.filename

Type:
    string or object

Example:
    * .. code:: "{manga}_c{chapter}_{page:>03}.{extension}"
    * .. code:: json { "extension == 'mp4'": "{id}_video.{extension}", "'nature' in title" : "{id}_{title}.{extension}", "" : "{id}_default.{extension}" }

Description:
    A format string to build filenames for downloaded files with. If this is an object, it must contain Python expressions mapping to the filename format strings to use. These expressions are evaluated in the order as specified in Python 3.6+ and in an undetermined order in Python 3.4 and 3.5. The available replacement keys depend on the extractor used. A list of keys for a specific one can be acquired by calling *gallery-dl* with the -K/--list-keywords command-line option. For example: $ gallery-dl -K http://seiga.nicovideo.jp/seiga/im5977527 Keywords for directory names: category seiga subcategory image Keywords for filenames: category seiga extension None image-id 5977527 subcategory image Note: Even if the value of the extension key is missing or None, it will be filled in later when the file download is starting. This key is therefore always available to provide a valid filename extension.

  extractor.*.directory

Type:
    list of strings

Example:
    ["{category}", "{manga}", "c{chapter} - {title}"]

Description:
    A list of format strings for the resulting target directory. Each individual string in such a list represents a single path segment, which will be joined together and appended to the base-directory to form the complete target directory path.

  extractor.*.base-directory

Type:
    Path

Default:
    "./gallery-dl/"

Description:
    Directory path used as base for all download destinations.

  extractor.*.parent-directory

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Use an extractor's current target directory as base-directory for any spawned child extractors.

  extractor.*.parent-metadata

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Overwrite any metadata provided by a child extractor with its parent's.

  extractor.*.parent-skip

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Share number of skipped downloads between parent and child extractors.

  extractor.*.path-restrict

Type:
    string or object

Default:
    "auto"

Example:
    * "/!? (){}"
    * {" ": "_", "/": "-", "|": "-", ":": "-", "*": "+"}

Description:
    A string of characters to be replaced with the value of
    path-replace or an object mapping invalid/unwanted characters to their replacements
    for generated path segment names.
    Special values:
    * "auto": Use characters from "unix" or "windows" depending on the local operating system
    * "unix": "/"
    * "windows": "\\\\|/<>:\"?*"
    * "ascii": "^0-9A-Za-z_." Note: In a string with 2 or more characters, []^-\ need to be escaped with backslashes, e.g. "\\[\\]"

  extractor.*.path-replace

Type:
    string

Default:
    "_"

Description:
    The replacement character(s) for path-restrict

  extractor.*.path-remove

Type:
    string

Default:
    "\u0000-\u001f\u007f" (ASCII control characters)

Description:
    Set of characters to remove from generated path names. Note: In a string with 2 or more characters, []^-\ need to be escaped with backslashes, e.g. "\\[\\]"

  extractor.*.extension-map

Type:
    object

Default:
    { "jpeg": "jpg", "jpe" : "jpg", "jfif": "jpg", "jif" : "jpg", "jfi" : "jpg" }

Description:
    A JSON object mapping filename extensions to their replacements.

  extractor.*.skip

Type:
    bool or string

Default:
    true

Description:
    Controls the behavior when downloading files that have been downloaded before, i.e. a file with the same filename already exists or its ID is in a download archive.
    * true: Skip downloads
    * false: Overwrite already existing files
    * "abort": Stop the current extractor run
    * "abort:N": Skip downloads and stop the current extractor run after N consecutive skips
    * "terminate": Stop the current extractor run, including parent extractors
    * "terminate:N": Skip downloads and stop the current extractor run, including parent extractors, after N consecutive skips
    * "exit": Exit the program altogether
    * "exit:N": Skip downloads and exit the program after N consecutive skips
    * "enumerate": Add an enumeration index to the beginning of the filename extension (file.1.ext, file.2.ext, etc.)

  extractor.*.sleep

Type:
    float

Default:
    0

Description:
    Number of seconds to sleep before each download.

  extractor.*.sleep-extractor

Type:
    float

Default:
    0

Description:
    Number of seconds to sleep before handling an input URL, i.e. before starting a new extractor.

  extractor.*.sleep-request

Type:
    float

Default:
    0

Description:
    Minimal time interval in seconds between each HTTP request during data extraction.

  extractor.*.username & .password

Type:
    string

Default:
    null

Description:
    The username and password to use when attempting to log in to another site. Specifying a username and password is required for
    * nijie
    * seiga and optional for
    * aryion
    * danbooru (*)
    * e621 (*)
    * exhentai
    * idolcomplex
    * imgbb
    * inkbunny
    * instagram
    * mangadex
    * mangoxo
    * pillowfort
    * pinterest
    * sankaku
    * subscribestar
    * tapas
    * tsumino
    * twitter These values can also be specified via the -u/--username and -p/--password command-line options or by using a .netrc file. (see Authentication_) (*) The password value for danbooru and e621 should be the API key found in your user profile, not the actual account password.

  extractor.*.netrc

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Enable the use of .netrc authentication data.

  extractor.*.cookies

Type:
    Path or object

Default:
    null

Description:
    Source to read additional cookies from. Either as
    * the Path to a Mozilla/Netscape format cookies.txt file or
    * a JSON object specifying cookies as a name-to-value mapping Example: { "cookie-name": "cookie-value", "sessionid" : "14313336321%3AsabDFvuASDnlpb%3A31", "isAdult" : "1" }

  extractor.*.cookies-update

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    If extractor.*.cookies specifies the Path to a cookies.txt file and it can be opened and parsed without errors, update its contents with cookies received during data extraction.

  extractor.*.proxy

Type:
    string or object

Default:
    null

Description:
    Proxy (or proxies) to be used for remote connections.
    * If this is a string, it is the proxy URL for all outgoing requests.
    * If this is an object, it is a scheme-to-proxy mapping to specify different proxy URLs for each scheme. It is also possible to set a proxy for a specific host by using scheme://host as key. See Requests' proxy documentation for more details. Example: { "http" : "http://10.10.1.10:3128", "https": "http://10.10.1.10:1080", "http://10.20.1.128": "http://10.10.1.10:5323" } Note: All proxy URLs should include a scheme, otherwise http:// is assumed.

  extractor.*.user-agent

Type:
    string

Default:
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0"

Description:
    User-Agent header value to be used for HTTP requests. Note: This option has no effect on pixiv extractors, as these need specific values to function correctly.

  extractor.*.browser

Type:
    string

Default:
    "firefox" for patreon, null everywhere else

Example:
    * "chrome:macos"

Description:
    Try to emulate a real browser (firefox or chrome) by using their default HTTP headers and TLS ciphers for HTTP requests. Optionally, the operating system used in the User-Agent header can be specified after a : (windows, linux, or macos). Note: requests and urllib3 only support HTTP/1.1, while a real browser would use HTTP/2.

  extractor.*.keywords

Type:
    object

Example:
    {"type": "Pixel Art", "type_id": 123}

Description:
    Additional key-value pairs to be added to each metadata dictionary.

  extractor.*.keywords-default

Type:
    any

Default:
    "None"

Description:
    Default value used for missing or undefined keyword names in format strings.

  extractor.*.category-transfer

Type:
    bool

Default:
    Extractor-specific

Description:
    Transfer an extractor's (sub)category values to all child extractors spawned by it, to let them inherit their parent's config options.

  extractor.*.blacklist & .whitelist

Type:
    list of strings

Default:
    ["oauth", "recursive", "test"] + current extractor category

Description:
    A list of extractor categories to ignore (or allow) when spawning child extractors for unknown URLs, e.g. from reddit or plurk. Note: Any blacklist setting will automatically include "oauth", "recursive", and "test".

  extractor.*.archive

Type:
    Path

Default:
    null

Example:
    "$HOME/.archives/{category}.sqlite3"

Description:
    File to store IDs of downloaded files in. Downloads of files already recorded in this archive file will be skipped. The resulting archive file is not a plain text file but an SQLite3 database, as either lookup operations are significantly faster or memory requirements are significantly lower when the amount of stored IDs gets reasonably large. Note: archive paths support regular format string replacements, but be aware that using external inputs for building local paths may pose a security risk.

  extractor.*.archive-format

Type:
    string

Example:
    "{id}_{offset}"

Description:
    An alternative format string to build archive IDs with.

  extractor.*.postprocessors

Type:
    list of Postprocessor Configuration objects

Example:
    [ { "name": "zip" , "compression": "store" }, { "name": "exec", "command": ["/home/foobar/script", "{category}", "{image_id}"] } ]

Description:
    A list of post processors to be applied to each downloaded file in the specified order. Unlike other options, a postprocessors setting at a deeper level
    does not override any postprocessors setting at a lower level. Instead, all post processors from all applicable postprocessors
    settings get combined into a single list. For example
    * an mtime post processor at extractor.postprocessors,
    * a zip post processor at extractor.pixiv.postprocessors,
    * and using --exec will run all three post processors - mtime, zip, exec - for each downloaded pixiv file.

  extractor.*.retries

Type:
    integer

Default:
    4

Description:
    Maximum number of times a failed HTTP request is retried before giving up, or -1 for infinite retries.

  extractor.*.timeout

Type:
    float

Default:
    30.0

Description:
    Amount of time (in seconds) to wait for a successful connection and response from a remote server. This value gets internally used as the timeout parameter for the requests.request() method.

  extractor.*.verify

Type:
    bool or string

Default:
    true

Description:
    Controls whether to verify SSL/TLS certificates for HTTPS requests. If this is a string, it must be the path to a CA bundle to use instead of the default certificates. This value gets internally used as the verify parameter for the requests.request() method.

  extractor.*.download

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Controls whether to download media files. Setting this to false won't download any files, but all other functions (postprocessors, download archive, etc.) will be executed as normal.

  extractor.*.image-range

Type:
    string

Example:
    * "10-20"
    * "-5, 10, 30-50, 100-"

Description:
    Index-range(s) specifying which images to download. Note: The index of the first image is 1.

  extractor.*.chapter-range

Type:
    string

Description:
    Like image-range, but applies to delegated URLs like manga-chapters, etc.

  extractor.*.image-filter

Type:
    string

Example:
    * "width >= 1200 and width/height > 1.2"
    * "re.search(r'foo(bar)+', description)"

Description:
    Python expression controlling which files to download. Files for which the expression evaluates to False are ignored.
    Available keys are the filename-specific ones listed by -K or -j.

  extractor.*.chapter-filter

Type:
    string

Example:
    * "lang == 'en'"
    * "language == 'French' and 10 <= chapter < 20"

Description:
    Like image-filter, but applies to delegated URLs like manga-chapters, etc.

  extractor.*.image-unique

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Ignore image URLs that have been encountered before during the current extractor run.

  extractor.*.chapter-unique

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Like image-unique, but applies to delegated URLs like manga-chapters, etc.

  extractor.*.date-format

Type:
    string

Default:
    "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"

Description:
    Format string used to parse string values of date-min and date-max. See strptime for a list of formatting directives.

EXTRACTOR-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

  extractor.artstation.external

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Try to follow external URLs of embedded players.

  extractor.aryion.recursive

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Controls the post extraction strategy.
    * true: Start on users' main gallery pages and recursively descend into subfolders
    * false: Get posts from "Latest Updates" pages

  extractor.blogger.videos

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download embedded videos hosted on https://www.blogger.com/

  extractor.derpibooru.api-key

Type:
    string

Default:
    null

Description:
    Your Derpibooru API Key, to use your account's browsing settings and filters.

  extractor.derpibooru.filter

Type:
    integer

Default:
    56027 (Everything filter)

Description:
    The content filter ID to use. Setting an explicit filter ID overrides any default filters and can be used to access 18+ content without API Key. See Filters for details.

  extractor.deviantart.extra

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Download extra Sta.sh resources from description texts and journals. Note: Enabling this option also enables deviantart.metadata_.

  extractor.deviantart.flat

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Select the directory structure created by the Gallery- and Favorite-Extractors.
    * true: Use a flat directory structure.
    * false: Collect a list of all gallery-folders or favorites-collections and transfer any further work to other extractors (folder or collection), which will then create individual subdirectories for each of them. Note: Going through all gallery folders will not be able to fetch deviations which aren't in any folder.

  extractor.deviantart.folders

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Provide a folders metadata field that contains the names of all folders a deviation is present in. Note: Gathering this information requires a lot of API calls. Use with caution.

  extractor.deviantart.include

Type:
    string or list of strings

Default:
    "gallery"

Example:
    "favorite,journal,scraps" or ["favorite", "journal", "scraps"]

Description:
    A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile. Possible values are "gallery", "scraps", "journal", "favorite". You can use "all" instead of listing all values separately.

  extractor.deviantart.journals

Type:
    string

Default:
    "html"

Description:
    Selects the output format of journal entries.
    * "html": HTML with (roughly) the same layout as on DeviantArt.
    * "text": Plain text with image references and HTML tags removed.
    * "none": Don't download journals.

  extractor.deviantart.mature

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Enable mature content. This option simply sets the mature_content parameter for API calls to either "true" or "false" and does not do any other form of content filtering.

  extractor.deviantart.metadata

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Request extended metadata for deviation objects to additionally provide description, tags, license and is_watching fields.

  extractor.deviantart.original

Type:
    bool or string

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download original files if available. Setting this option to "images" only downloads original files if they are images and falls back to preview versions for everything else (archives, etc.).

  extractor.deviantart.quality

Type:
    integer

Default:
    100

Description:
    JPEG quality level of newer images for which an original file download is not available.

  extractor.deviantart.refresh-token

Type:
    string

Default:
    null

Description:
    The refresh-token value you get from linking your DeviantArt account to gallery-dl. Using a refresh-token allows you to access private or otherwise not publicly available deviations. Note: The refresh-token becomes invalid after 3 months or whenever your cache file is deleted or cleared.

  extractor.deviantart.wait-min

Type:
    integer

Default:
    0

Description:
    Minimum wait time in seconds before API requests.

  extractor.exhentai.limits

Type:
    integer

Default:
    null

Description:
    Sets a custom image download limit and stops extraction when it gets exceeded.

  extractor.exhentai.domain

Type:
    string

Default:
    "auto"

Description:
    * "auto": Use e-hentai.org or exhentai.org depending on the input URL
    * "e-hentai.org": Use e-hentai.org for all URLs
    * "exhentai.org": Use exhentai.org for all URLs

  extractor.exhentai.metadata

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Load extended gallery metadata from the API. Adds archiver_key, posted, and torrents. Makes date and filesize more precise.

  extractor.exhentai.original

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download full-sized original images if available.

  extractor.fanbox.embeds

Type:
    bool or string

Default:
    true

Description:
    Control behavior on embedded content from external sites.
    * true: Extract embed URLs and download them if supported (videos are not downloaded).
    * "ytdl": Like true, but let youtube-dl handle video extraction and download for YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud embeds.
    * false: Ignore embeds.

  extractor.flickr.access-token & .access-token-secret

Type:
    string

Default:
    null

Description:
    The access_token and access_token_secret values you get from linking your Flickr account to gallery-dl.

  extractor.flickr.videos

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Extract and download videos.

  extractor.flickr.size-max

Type:
    integer or string

Default:
    null

Description:
    Sets the maximum allowed size for downloaded images.
    * If this is an integer, it specifies the maximum image dimension (width and height) in pixels.
    * If this is a string, it should be one of Flickr's format specifiers ("Original", "Large", ... or "o", "k", "h", "l", ...) to use as an upper limit.

  extractor.furaffinity.descriptions

Type:
    string

Default:
    "text"

Description:
    Controls the format of description metadata fields.
    * "text": Plain text with HTML tags removed
    * "html": Raw HTML content

  extractor.furaffinity.include

Type:
    string or list of strings

Default:
    "gallery"

Example:
    "scraps,favorite" or ["scraps", "favorite"]

Description:
    A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile. Possible values are "gallery", "scraps", "favorite". You can use "all" instead of listing all values separately.

  extractor.gfycat.format

Type:
    string

Default:
    "mp4"

Description:
    The name of the preferred animation format, which can be one of "mp4", "webm", "gif", "webp" or "mjpg". If the selected format is not available, "mp4", "webm" and "gif" (in that order) will be tried instead, until an available format is found.

  extractor.hentaifoundry.include

Type:
    string or list of strings

Default:
    "pictures"

Example:
    "scraps,stories" or ["scraps", "stories"]

Description:
    A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile. Possible values are "pictures", "scraps", "stories", "favorite". You can use "all" instead of listing all values separately.

  extractor.hentainexus.original

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download original files instead of WebP versions.

  extractor.hitomi.metadata

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Try to extract artist, group, parody, and characters metadata.

  extractor.imgur.mp4

Type:
    bool or string

Default:
    true

Description:
    Controls whether to choose the GIF or MP4 version of an animation.
    * true: Follow Imgur's advice and choose MP4 if the prefer_video flag in an image's metadata is set.
    * false: Always choose GIF.
    * "always": Always choose MP4.

  extractor.inkbunny.orderby

Type:
    string

Default:
    "create_datetime"

Description:
    Value of the orderby parameter for submission searches. (See API#Search for details)

  extractor.instagram.include

Type:
    string or list of strings

Default:
    "posts"

Example:
    "stories,highlights,posts" or ["stories", "highlights", "posts"]

Description:
    A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile. Possible values are "posts", "reels", "channel", "tagged", "stories", "highlights". You can use "all" instead of listing all values separately.

  extractor.instagram.videos

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download video files.

  extractor.kemonoparty.metadata

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Extract username metadata

  extractor.khinsider.format

Type:
    string

Default:
    "mp3"

Description:
    The name of the preferred file format to download. Use "all" to download all available formats, or a (comma-separated) list to select multiple formats. If the selected format is not available, the first in the list gets chosen (usually mp3).

  extractor.mangadex.api-server

Type:
    string

Default:
    "https://api.mangadex.org"

Description:
    The server to use for API requests.

  extractor.newgrounds.flash

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download original Adobe Flash animations instead of pre-rendered videos.

  extractor.newgrounds.include

Type:
    string or list of strings

Default:
    "art"

Example:
    "movies,audio" or ["movies", "audio"]

Description:
    A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile. Possible values are "art", "audio", "movies". You can use "all" instead of listing all values separately.

  extractor.nijie.include

Type:
    string or list of strings

Default:
    "illustration,doujin"

Description:
    A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile. Possible values are "illustration", "doujin", "favorite". You can use "all" instead of listing all values separately.

  extractor.oauth.browser

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Controls how a user is directed to an OAuth authorization page.
    * true: Use Python's webbrowser.open() method to automatically open the URL in the user's default browser.
    * false: Ask the user to copy & paste an URL from the terminal.

  extractor.oauth.cache

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Store tokens received during OAuth authorizations in cache.

  extractor.oauth.port

Type:
    integer

Default:
    6414

Description:
    Port number to listen on during OAuth authorization. Note: All redirects will go to http://localhost:6414/, regardless of the port specified here. You'll have to manually adjust the port number in your browser's address bar when using a different port than the default.

  extractor.photobucket.subalbums

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download subalbums.

  extractor.pillowfort.external

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Follow links to external sites, e.g. Twitter,

  extractor.pillowfort.inline

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Extract inline images.

  extractor.pillowfort.reblogs

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Extract media from reblogged posts.

  extractor.pinterest.sections

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Include pins from board sections.

  extractor.pinterest.videos

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download from video pins.

  extractor.pixiv.user.avatar

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Download user avatars.

  extractor.pixiv.user.metadata

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Fetch extended user metadata.

  extractor.pixiv.work.related

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Also download related artworks.

  extractor.pixiv.tags

Type:
    string

Default:
    "japanese"

Description:
    Controls the tags metadata field.
    * "japanese": List of Japanese tags
    * "translated": List of translated tags
    * "original": Unmodified list with both Japanese and translated tags

  extractor.pixiv.ugoira

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download Pixiv's Ugoira animations or ignore them. These animations come as a .zip file containing all animation frames in JPEG format. Use an ugoira post processor to convert them to watchable videos. (Example__)

  extractor.pixiv.max-posts

Type:
    integer

Default:
    0

Description:
    When downloading galleries, this sets the maximum number of posts to get. A value of 0 means no limit.

  extractor.plurk.comments

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Also search Plurk comments for URLs.

  extractor.readcomiconline.captcha

Type:
    string

Default:
    "stop"

Description:
    Controls how to handle redirects to CAPTCHA pages.
    * "stop: Stop the current extractor run.
    * "wait: Ask the user to solve the CAPTCHA and wait.

  extractor.reddit.comments

Type:
    integer

Default:
    0

Description:
    The value of the limit parameter when loading a submission and its comments. This number (roughly) specifies the total amount of comments being retrieved with the first API call. Reddit's internal default and maximum values for this parameter appear to be 200 and 500 respectively. The value 0 ignores all comments and significantly reduces the time required when scanning a subreddit.

  extractor.reddit.morecomments

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Retrieve additional comments by resolving the more comment stubs in the base comment tree. This requires 1 additional API call for every 100 extra comments.

  extractor.reddit.date-min & .date-max

Type:
    Date

Default:
    0 and 253402210800 (timestamp of datetime.max)

Description:
    Ignore all submissions posted before/after this date.

  extractor.reddit.id-min & .id-max

Type:
    string

Example:
    "6kmzv2"

Description:
    Ignore all submissions posted before/after the submission with this ID.

  extractor.reddit.recursion

Type:
    integer

Default:
    0

Description:
    Reddit extractors can recursively visit other submissions linked to in the initial set of submissions. This value sets the maximum recursion depth. Special values:
    * 0: Recursion is disabled
    * -1: Infinite recursion (don't do this)

  extractor.reddit.refresh-token

Type:
    string

Default:
    null

Description:
    The refresh-token value you get from linking your Reddit account to gallery-dl. Using a refresh-token allows you to access private or otherwise not publicly available subreddits, given that your account is authorized to do so, but requests to the reddit API are going to be rate limited at 600 requests every 10 minutes/600 seconds.

  extractor.reddit.videos

Type:
    bool or string

Default:
    true

Description:
    Control video download behavior.
    * true: Download videos and use youtube-dl to handle HLS and DASH manifests
    * "ytdl": Download videos and let youtube-dl handle all of video extraction and download
    * false: Ignore videos

  extractor.redgifs.format

Type:
    string

Default:
    "mp4"

Description:
    The name of the preferred format, which can be one of "mp4", "webm", "gif", "webp", "mobile", or "mini". If the selected format is not available, "mp4", "webm" and "gif" (in that order) will be tried instead, until an available format is found.

  extractor.sankakucomplex.embeds

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Download video embeds from external sites.

  extractor.sankakucomplex.videos

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download videos.

  extractor.smugmug.videos

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download video files.

  extractor.tumblr.avatar

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Download blog avatars.

  extractor.tumblr.date-min & .date-max

Type:
    Date

Default:
    0 and null

Description:
    Ignore all posts published before/after this date.

  extractor.tumblr.external

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Follow external URLs (e.g. from "Link" posts) and try to extract images from them.

  extractor.tumblr.inline

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Search posts for inline images and videos.

  extractor.tumblr.reblogs

Type:
    bool or string

Default:
    true

Description:
    * true: Extract media from reblogged posts
    * false: Skip reblogged posts
    * "same-blog": Skip reblogged posts unless the original post is from the same blog

  extractor.tumblr.posts

Type:
    string or list of strings

Default:
    "all"

Example:
    "video,audio,link" or ["video", "audio", "link"]

Description:
    A (comma-separated) list of post types to extract images, etc. from. Possible types are text, quote, link, answer, video, audio, photo, chat. You can use "all" instead of listing all types separately.

  extractor.twitter.cards

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Fetch media from Cards.

  extractor.twitter.conversations

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Fetch media from all Tweets and replies in a conversation <https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-conversations>.

  extractor.twitter.quoted

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Fetch media from quoted Tweets.

  extractor.twitter.replies

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Fetch media from replies to other Tweets.

  extractor.twitter.retweets

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Fetch media from Retweets. If this value is "original", metadata for these files will be taken from the original Tweets, not the Retweets.

  extractor.twitter.text-tweets

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Also emit metadata for text-only Tweets without media content. This only has an effect with a metadata (or exec) post processor with "event": "post" and appropriate filename.

  extractor.twitter.twitpic

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Extract TwitPic embeds.

  extractor.twitter.users

Type:
    string

Default:
    "timeline"

Example:
    "https://twitter.com/search?q=from:{legacy[screen_name]}"

Description:
    Format string for user URLs generated from
    following and list-members queries, whose replacement field values come from Twitter user objects
    (Example) Special values:
    * "timeline": https://twitter.com/i/user/{rest_id}
    * "media": https://twitter.com/id:{rest_id}/media Note: To allow gallery-dl to follow custom URL formats, set the blacklist for twitter to a non-default value, e.g. an empty string "".

  extractor.twitter.videos

Type:
    bool or string

Default:
    true

Description:
    Control video download behavior.
    * true: Download videos
    * "ytdl": Download videos using youtube-dl
    * false: Skip video Tweets

  extractor.unsplash.format

Type:
    string

Default:
    "raw"

Description:
    Name of the image format to download. Available formats are "raw", "full", "regular", "small", and "thumb".

  extractor.vsco.videos

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download video files.

  extractor.wallhaven.api-key

Type:
    string

Default:
    null

Description:
    Your Wallhaven API Key, to use your account's browsing settings and default filters when searching. See https://wallhaven.cc/help/api for more information.

  extractor.weasyl.api-key

Type:
    string

Default:
    null

Description:
    Your Weasyl API Key, to use your account's browsing settings and filters.

  extractor.weibo.retweets

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Fetch media from retweeted posts. If this value is "original", metadata for these files will be taken from the original posts, not the retweeted posts.

  extractor.weibo.videos

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Download video files.

  extractor.[manga-extractor].chapter-reverse

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Reverse the order of chapter URLs extracted from manga pages.
    * true: Start with the latest chapter
    * false: Start with the first chapter

DOWNLOADER OPTIONS

  downloader.*.enabled

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Enable/Disable this downloader module.

  downloader.*.filesize-min & .filesize-max

Type:
    string

Default:
    null

Example:
    "32000", "500k", "2.5M"

Description:
    Minimum/Maximum allowed file size in bytes. Any file smaller/larger than this limit will not be downloaded. Possible values are valid integer or floating-point numbers optionally followed by one of k, m. g, t or p. These suffixes are case-insensitive.

  downloader.*.mtime

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Use Last-Modified HTTP response headers to set file modification times.

  downloader.*.part

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Controls the use of .part files during file downloads.
    * true: Write downloaded data into .part files and rename them upon download completion. This mode additionally supports resuming incomplete downloads.
    * false: Do not use .part files and write data directly into the actual output files.

  downloader.*.part-directory

Type:
    Path

Default:
    null

Description:
    Alternate location for .part files. Missing directories will be created as needed. If this value is null, .part files are going to be stored alongside the actual output files.

  downloader.*.rate

Type:
    string

Default:
    null

Example:
    "32000", "500k", "2.5M"

Description:
    Maximum download rate in bytes per second. Possible values are valid integer or floating-point numbers optionally followed by one of k, m. g, t or p. These suffixes are case-insensitive.

  downloader.*.retries

Type:
    integer

Default:
    extractor.*.retries

Description:
    Maximum number of retries during file downloads, or -1 for infinite retries.

  downloader.*.timeout

Type:
    float or null

Default:
    extractor.*.timeout

Description:
    Connection timeout during file downloads.

  downloader.*.verify

Type:
    bool or string

Default:
    extractor.*.verify

Description:
    Certificate validation during file downloads.

  downloader.http.adjust-extensions

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Check the file headers of jpg, png, and gif files and adjust their filename extensions if they do not match.

  downloader.http.headers

Type:
    object

Example:
    {"Accept": "image/webp,*/*", "Referer": "https://example.org/"}

Description:
    Additional HTTP headers to send when downloading files,

  downloader.ytdl.format

Type:
    string

Default:
    youtube-dl's default, currently "bestvideo+bestaudio/best"

Description:
    Video format selection <https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#format-selection> directly passed to youtube-dl.

  downloader.ytdl.forward-cookies

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Forward cookies to youtube-dl.

  downloader.ytdl.logging

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Route youtube-dl's output through gallery-dl's logging system. Otherwise youtube-dl will write its output directly to stdout/stderr. Note: Set quiet and no_warnings in downloader.ytdl.raw-options to true to suppress all output.

  downloader.ytdl.module

Type:
    string

Default:
    "youtube_dl"

Description:
    Name of the youtube-dl Python module to import.

  downloader.ytdl.outtmpl

Type:
    string

Default:
    null

Description:
    The Output Template used to generate filenames for files downloaded with youtube-dl. Special values:
    * null: generate filenames with extractor.*.filename
    * "default": use youtube-dl's default, currently "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" Note: An output template other than null might cause unexpected results in combination with other options (e.g. "skip": "enumerate")

  downloader.ytdl.raw-options

Type:
    object

Example:
    { "quiet": true, "writesubtitles": true, "merge_output_format": "mkv" }

Description:
    Additional options passed directly to the YoutubeDL constructor. All available options can be found in youtube-dl's docstrings <https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L138-L318>.

OUTPUT OPTIONS

  output.fallback

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Include fallback URLs in the output of -g/--get-urls.

  output.mode

Type:
    string

Default:
    "auto"

Description:
    Controls the output string format and status indicators.
    * "null": No output
    * "pipe": Suitable for piping to other processes or files
    * "terminal": Suitable for the standard Windows console
    * "color": Suitable for terminals that understand ANSI escape codes and colors
    * "auto": Automatically choose the best suitable output mode

  output.shorten

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Controls whether the output strings should be shortened to fit on one console line.

  output.skip

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Show skipped file downloads.

  output.progress

Type:
    bool or string

Default:
    true

Description:
    Controls the progress indicator when *gallery-dl* is run with multiple URLs as arguments.
    * true: Show the default progress indicator ("[{current}/{total}] {url}")
    * false: Do not show any progress indicator
    * Any string: Show the progress indicator using this as a custom format string. Possible replacement keys are current, total and url.

  output.log

Type:
    string or Logging Configuration

Default:
    "[{name}][{levelname}] {message}"

Description:
    Configuration for standard logging output to stderr. If this is a simple string, it specifies the format string for logging messages.

  output.logfile

Type:
    Path or Logging Configuration

Default:
    null

Description:
    File to write logging output to.

  output.unsupportedfile

Type:
    Path or Logging Configuration

Default:
    null

Description:
    File to write external URLs unsupported by *gallery-dl* to. The default format string here is "{message}".

  output.num-to-str

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Convert numeric values (integer or float) to string before outputting them as JSON.

POSTPROCESSOR OPTIONS

  classify.mapping

Type:
    object

Default:
    { "Pictures": ["jpg", "jpeg", "png", "gif", "bmp", "svg", "webp"], "Video" : ["flv", "ogv", "avi", "mp4", "mpg", "mpeg", "3gp", "mkv", "webm", "vob", "wmv"], "Music" : ["mp3", "aac", "flac", "ogg", "wma", "m4a", "wav"], "Archives": ["zip", "rar", "7z", "tar", "gz", "bz2"] }

Description:
    A mapping from directory names to filename extensions that should be stored in them. Files with an extension not listed will be ignored and stored in their default location.

  compare.action

Type:
    string

Default:
    "replace"

Description:
    The action to take when files do not compare as equal.
    * "replace": Replace/Overwrite the old version with the new one
    * "enumerate": Add an enumeration index to the filename of the new version like skip = "enumerate"

  compare.shallow

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Only compare file sizes. Do not read and compare their content.

  exec.async

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Controls whether to wait for a subprocess to finish or to let it run asynchronously.

  exec.command

Type:
    string or list of strings

Example:
    * "convert {} {}.png && rm {}"
    * ["echo", "{user[account]}", "{id}"]

Description:
    The command to run.
    * If this is a string, it will be executed using the system's shell, e.g. /bin/sh. Any {} will be replaced with the full path of a file or target directory, depending on exec.event
    * If this is a list, the first element specifies the program name and any further elements its arguments. Each element of this list is treated as a format string using the files' metadata as well as {_path}, {_directory}, and {_filename}.

  exec.event

Type:
    string

Default:
    "after"

Description:
    The event for which exec.command is run. See metadata.event for a list of available events.

  metadata.mode

Type:
    string

Default:
    "json"

Description:
    Select how to write metadata.
    * "json": all metadata using json.dump() <https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html#json.dump>
    * "tags": tags separated by newlines
    * "custom": result of applying metadata.content-format to a file's metadata dictionary

  metadata.filename

Type:
    string

Default:
    null

Example:
    "{id}.data.json"

Description:
    A format string to build the filenames for metadata files with. (see extractor.filename) If this option is set, metadata.extension and metadata.extension-format will be ignored.

  metadata.directory

Type:
    string

Default:
    "."

Example:
    "metadata"

Description:
    Directory where metadata files are stored in relative to the current target location for file downloads.

  metadata.extension

Type:
    string

Default:
    "json" or "txt"

Description:
    Filename extension for metadata files that will be appended to the original file names.

  metadata.extension-format

Type:
    string

Example:
    * "{extension}.json"
    * "json"

Description:
    Custom format string to build filename extensions for metadata files with, which will replace the original filename extensions. Note: metadata.extension is ignored if this option is set.

  metadata.event

Type:
    string

Default:
    "file"

Description:
    The event for which metadata gets written to a file. The available events are: init After post processor initialization and before the first file download finalize On extractor shutdown, e.g. after all files were downloaded prepare Before a file download file When completing a file download, but before it gets moved to its target location after After a file got moved to its target location skip When skipping a file download post When starting to download all files of a post, e.g. a Tweet on Twitter or a post on Patreon.

  metadata.content-format

Type:
    string or list of strings

Example:
    * "tags:\n\n{tags:J\n}\n"
    * ["tags:", "", "{tags:J\n}"]

Description:
    Custom format string to build the content of metadata files with. Note: Only applies for "mode": "custom".

  mtime.key

Type:
    string

Default:
    "date"

Description:
    Name of the metadata field whose value should be used. This value must either be a UNIX timestamp or a datetime object.

  ugoira.extension

Type:
    string

Default:
    "webm"

Description:
    Filename extension for the resulting video files.

  ugoira.ffmpeg-args

Type:
    list of strings

Default:
    null

Example:
    ["-c:v", "libvpx-vp9", "-an", "-b:v", "2M"]

Description:
    Additional FFmpeg command-line arguments.

  ugoira.ffmpeg-demuxer

Type:
    string

Default:
    image2

Description:
    FFmpeg demuxer to read input files with. Possible values are "image2" and "concat".

  ugoira.ffmpeg-location

Type:
    Path

Default:
    "ffmpeg"

Description:
    Location of the ffmpeg (or avconv) executable to use.

  ugoira.ffmpeg-output

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Show FFmpeg output.

  ugoira.ffmpeg-twopass

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Enable Two-Pass encoding.

  ugoira.framerate

Type:
    string

Default:
    "auto"

Description:
    Controls the frame rate argument (-r) for FFmpeg
    * "auto": Automatically assign a fitting frame rate based on delays between frames.
    * any other string: Use this value as argument for -r.
    * null or an empty string: Don't set an explicit frame rate.

  ugoira.keep-files

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Keep ZIP archives after conversion.

  ugoira.libx264-prevent-odd

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Prevent "width/height not divisible by 2" errors when using libx264 or libx265 encoders by applying a simple cropping filter. See this Stack Overflow thread for more information. This option, when libx264/5 is used, automatically adds ["-vf", "crop=iw-mod(iw\\,2):ih-mod(ih\\,2)"] to the list of FFmpeg command-line arguments to reduce an odd width/height by 1 pixel and make them even.

  ugoira.repeat-last-frame

Type:
    bool

Default:
    true

Description:
    Allow repeating the last frame when necessary to prevent it from only being displayed for a very short amount of time.

  zip.extension

Type:
    string

Default:
    "zip"

Description:
    Filename extension for the created ZIP archive.

  zip.keep-files

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Keep the actual files after writing them to a ZIP archive.

  zip.mode

Type:
    string

Default:
    "default"

Description:
    * "default": Write the central directory file header once after everything is done or an exception is raised.
    * "safe": Update the central directory file header each time a file is stored in a ZIP archive. This greatly reduces the chance a ZIP archive gets corrupted in case the Python interpreter gets shut down unexpectedly (power outage, SIGKILL) but is also a lot slower.

MISCELLANEOUS OPTIONS

  extractor.modules

Type:
    list of strings

Default:
    The modules list in extractor/__init__.py

Example:
    ["reddit", "danbooru", "mangadex"]

Description:
    The list of modules to load when searching for a suitable extractor class. Useful to reduce startup time and memory usage.

  cache.file

Type:
    Path

Default:
    * (%APPDATA% or "~") + "/gallery-dl/cache.sqlite3" on Windows
    * ($XDG_CACHE_HOME or "~/.cache") + "/gallery-dl/cache.sqlite3" on all other platforms

Description:
    Path of the SQLite3 database used to cache login sessions, cookies and API tokens across gallery-dl invocations. Set this option to null or an invalid path to disable this cache.

  pyopenssl

Type:
    bool

Default:
    false

Description:
    Use pyOpenSSL-backed SSL-support.

API TOKENS & IDS

  extractor.deviantart.client-id & .client-secret

Type:
    string

How To:
    * login and visit DeviantArt's Applications & Keys section
    * click "Register Application"
    * scroll to "OAuth2 Redirect URI Whitelist (Required)" and enter "https://mikf.github.io/gallery-dl/oauth-redirect.html"
    * scroll to the bottom and agree to the API License Agreement. Submission Policy, and Terms of Service.
    * click "Save"
    * copy client_id and client_secret of your new application and put them in your configuration file as "client-id" and "client-secret"
    * clear your cache to delete any remaining access-token entries. (gallery-dl --clear-cache)
    * get a new refresh-token for the new client-id (gallery-dl oauth:deviantart)

  extractor.flickr.api-key & .api-secret

Type:
    string

How To:
    * login and Create an App in Flickr's App Garden
    * click "APPLY FOR A NON-COMMERCIAL KEY"
    * fill out the form with a random name and description and click "SUBMIT"
    * copy Key and Secret and put them in your configuration file

  extractor.reddit.client-id & .user-agent

Type:
    string

How To:
    * login and visit the apps section of your account's preferences
    * click the "are you a developer? create an app..." button
    * fill out the form, choose "installed app", preferably set "http://localhost:6414/" as "redirect uri" and finally click "create app"
    * copy the client id (third line, under your application's name and "installed app") and put it in your configuration file
    * use "Python:<application name>:v1.0 (by /u/<username>)" as user-agent and replace <application name> and <username> accordingly (see Reddit's API access rules)

  extractor.smugmug.api-key & .api-secret

Type:
    string

How To:
    * login and Apply for an API Key
    * use a random name and description, set "Type" to "Application", "Platform" to "All", and "Use" to "Non-Commercial"
    * fill out the two checkboxes at the bottom and click "Apply"
    * copy API Key and API Secret and put them in your configuration file

  extractor.tumblr.api-key & .api-secret

Type:
    string

How To:
    * login and visit Tumblr's Applications section
    * click "Register application"
    * fill out the form: use a random name and description, set https://example.org/ as "Application Website" and "Default callback URL"
    * solve Google's "I'm not a robot" challenge and click "Register"
    * click "Show secret key" (below "OAuth Consumer Key")
    * copy your OAuth Consumer Key and Secret Key and put them in your configuration file

CUSTOM TYPES

  Date

Type:
    string or integer

Example:
    * "2019-01-01T00:00:00"
    * "2019" with "%Y" as date-format
    * 1546297200

Description:
    A Date value represents a specific point in time.
    * If given as string, it is parsed according to date-format.
    * If given as integer, it is interpreted as UTC timestamp.

  Path

Type:
    string or list of strings

Example:
    * "file.ext"
    * "~/path/to/file.ext"
    * "$HOME/path/to/file.ext"
    * ["$HOME", "path", "to", "file.ext"]

Description:
    A Path is a string representing the location of a file or directory. Simple tilde expansion and environment variable expansion is supported. In Windows environments, backslashes ("\") can, in addition to forward slashes ("/"), be used as path separators. Because backslashes are JSON's escape character, they themselves have to be escaped. The path C:\path\to\file.ext has therefore to be written as "C:\\path\\to\\file.ext" if you want to use backslashes.

  Logging Configuration

Type:
    object

Example:
    { "format" : "{asctime} {name}: {message}", "format-date": "%H:%M:%S", "path" : "~/log.txt", "encoding" : "ascii" } { "level" : "debug", "format": { "debug" : "debug: {message}", "info" : "[{name}] {message}", "warning": "Warning: {message}", "error" : "ERROR: {message}" } }

Description:
    Extended logging output configuration.
    * format
    * General format string for logging messages or a dictionary with format strings for each loglevel. In addition to the default LogRecord attributes, it is also possible to access the current extractor, job, path, and keywords objects and their attributes, for example "{extractor.url}", "{path.filename}", "{keywords.title}"
    * Default: "[{name}][{levelname}] {message}"
    * format-date
    * Format string for {asctime} fields in logging messages (see strftime() directives)
    * Default: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
    * level
    * Minimum logging message level (one of "debug", "info", "warning", "error", "exception")
    * Default: "info"
    * path
    * Path to the output file
    * mode
    * Mode in which the file is opened; use "w" to truncate or "a" to append (see open())
    * Default: "w"
    * encoding
    * File encoding
    * Default: "utf-8" Note: path, mode, and encoding are only applied when configuring logging output to a file.

  Postprocessor Configuration

Type:
    object

Example:
    { "name": "mtime" } { "name" : "zip", "compression": "store", "extension" : "cbz", "filter" : "extension not in ('zip', 'rar')", "whitelist" : ["mangadex", "exhentai", "nhentai"] }

Description:
    An object containing a "name" attribute specifying the post-processor type, as well as any of its options. It is possible to set a "filter" expression similar to image-filter to only run a post-processor conditionally. It is also possible set a "whitelist" or "blacklist" to only enable or disable a post-processor for the specified extractor categories. The available post-processor types are classify Categorize files by filename extension compare Compare versions of the same file and replace/enumerate them on mismatch
    (requires downloader.*.part = true and extractor.*.skip = false)
    exec Execute external commands metadata Write metadata to separate files mtime Set file modification time according to its metadata ugoira Convert Pixiv Ugoira to WebM using FFmpeg zip Store files in a ZIP archive

BUGS
https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues

AUTHORS
Mike Fährmann <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
and https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/graphs/contributors

SEE ALSO
gallery-dl(1)