gallery-dl-example.conf

{
    "extractor":
    {
        "base-directory": "~/gallery-dl/",

        "#": "set global archive file for all extractors",
        "archive": "~/gallery-dl/archive.sqlite3",

        "#": "add two custom keywords into the metadata dictionary",
        "#": "these can be used to further refine your output directories or filenames",
        "keywords": {"bkey": "", "ckey": ""},
        "#": "make sure that custom keywords are empty, i.e. they don't appear unless specified by the user",
        "keywords-default": "",

        "#": "replace invalid path characters with unicode alternatives",
        "path-restrict": {
            "\\": "⧹",
            "/" : "⧸",
            "|" : "￨",
            ":" : "꞉",
            "*" : "∗",
            "?" : "？",
            "\"": "″",
            "<" : "﹤",
            ">" : "﹥"
        },

        "#": "write tags for several *booru sites",
        "postprocessors": [
            {
                "name": "metadata",
                "mode": "tags",
                "whitelist": ["danbooru", "moebooru", "sankaku"]
            }
        ],

        "pixiv":
        {
            "#": "override global archive setting for pixiv",
            "archive": "~/gallery-dl/archive-pixiv.sqlite3",

            "#": "set custom directory and filename format strings for all pixiv downloads",
            "filename": "{id}{num}.{extension}",
            "directory": ["Pixiv", "Works", "{user[id]}"],
            "refresh-token": "aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTuVwXyZ01234567890-FedC9",

            "#": "transform ugoira into lossless MKVs",
            "ugoira": true,
            "postprocessors": ["ugoira-copy"],

            "#": "use special settings for favorites and bookmarks",
            "favorite":
            {
                "directory": ["Pixiv", "Favorites", "{user[id]}"]
            },
            "bookmark":
            {
                "directory": ["Pixiv", "My Bookmarks"],
                "refresh-token": "01234567890aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTuVwXyZ-ZyxW1"
            }
        },

        "danbooru":
        {
            "ugoira": true,
            "postprocessors": ["ugoira-webm"]
        },

        "exhentai":
        {
            "#": "use cookies instead of logging in with username and password",
            "cookies":
            {
                "ipb_member_id": "12345",
                "ipb_pass_hash": "1234567890abcdef",
                "igneous"      : "123456789",
                "hath_perks"   : "m1.m2.m3.a-123456789a",
                "sk"           : "n4m34tv3574m2c4e22c35zgeehiw",
                "sl"           : "dm_2"
            },

            "#": "wait 2 to 4.8 seconds between HTTP requests",
            "sleep-request": [2.0, 4.8],

            "filename": "{num:>04}_{name}.{extension}",
            "directory": ["{category!c}", "{title}"]
        },

        "sankaku":
        {
            "#": "authentication with cookies is not possible for sankaku",
            "username": "user",
            "password": "#secret#"
        },

        "furaffinity": {
            "#": "authentication with username and password is not possible due to CAPTCHA",
            "cookies": {
                "a": "01234567-89ab-cdef-fedc-ba9876543210",
                "b": "fedcba98-7654-3210-0123-456789abcdef"
            },

            "descriptions": "html",
            "postprocessors": ["content"]
        },

        "deviantart":
        {
            "#": "download 'gallery' and 'scraps' images for user profile URLs",
            "include": "gallery,scraps",

            "#": "use custom API credentials to avoid 429 errors",
            "client-id": "98765",
            "client-secret": "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
            "refresh-token": "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567",

            "#": "put description texts into a separate directory",
            "metadata": true,
            "postprocessors": [
                {
                    "name": "metadata",
                    "mode": "custom",
                    "directory"       : "Descriptions",
                    "content-format"  : "{description}\n",
                    "extension-format": "descr.txt"
                }
            ]
        },

        "flickr":
        {
            "access-token": "1234567890-abcdef",
            "access-token-secret": "1234567890abcdef",
            "size-max": 1920
        },

        "mangadex":
        {
            "#": "only download safe/suggestive chapters translated to English",
            "lang": "en",
            "ratings": ["safe", "suggestive"],

            "#": "put chapters into '.cbz' archives",
            "postprocessors": ["cbz"]
        },

        "reddit":
        {
            "#": "only spawn child extractors for links to specific sites",
            "whitelist": ["imgur", "redgifs", "gfycat"],

            "#": "put files from child extractors into the reddit directory",
            "parent-directory": true,

            "#": "transfer metadata to any child extractor as '_reddit'",
            "parent-metadata": "_reddit"
        },

        "imgur":
        {
            "#": "use different directory and filename formats when coming from a reddit post",
            "directory":
            {
                "'_reddit' in locals()": []
            },
            "filename":
            {
                "'_reddit' in locals()": "{_reddit[id]} {id}.{extension}",
                ""                     : "{id}.{extension}"
            }
        },

        "tumblr":
        {
            "posts"   : "all",
            "external": false,
            "reblogs" : false,
            "inline"  : true,

            "#": "use special settings when downloading liked posts",
            "likes":
            {
                "posts"   : "video,photo,link",
                "external": true,
                "reblogs" : true
            }
        },

        "twitter":
        {
            "#": "write text content for *all* tweets",
            "postprocessors": ["content"],
            "text-tweets": true
        },

        "mastodon":
        {
            "#": "add 'tabletop.social' as recognized mastodon instance",
            "#": "(run 'gallery-dl oauth:mastodon:tabletop.social to get an access token')",
            "tabletop.social":
            {
                "root": "https://tabletop.social",
                "access-token": "513a36c6..."
            },

            "#": "set filename format strings for all 'mastodon' instances",
            "directory": ["mastodon", "{instance}", "{account[username]!l}"],
            "filename" : "{id}_{media[id]}.{extension}"
        },

        "foolslide": {
            "#": "add two more foolslide instances",
            "otscans"  : {"root": "https://otscans.com/foolslide"},
            "helvetica": {"root": "https://helveticascans.com/r" }
        },

        "foolfuuka": {
            "#": "add two other foolfuuka 4chan archives",
            "fireden-onion": {"root": "http://ydt6jy2ng3s3xg2e.onion"},
            "scalearchive" : {"root": "https://archive.scaled.team"  }
        },

        "gelbooru_v01":
        {
            "#": "add a custom gelbooru_v01 instance",
            "#": "this is just an example, this specific instance is already included!",
            "allgirlbooru": {"root": "https://allgirl.booru.org"},

            "#": "the following options are used for all gelbooru_v01 instances",
            "tag":
            {
                "directory": {
                    "locals().get('bkey')": ["Booru", "AllGirlBooru", "Tags", "{bkey}", "{ckey}", "{search_tags}"],
                    ""                    : ["Booru", "AllGirlBooru", "Tags", "_Unsorted", "{search_tags}"]
                }
            },
            "post":
            {
                "directory": ["Booru", "AllGirlBooru", "Posts"]
            },
            "archive": "~/gallery-dl/custom-archive-file-for-gelbooru_v01_instances.db",
            "filename": "{tags}_{id}_{md5}.{extension}",
            "sleep-request": [0, 1.2]
        },

        "gelbooru_v02":
        {
            "#": "add a custom gelbooru_v02 instance",
            "#": "this is just an example, this specific instance is already included!",
            "tbib":
            {
                "root": "https://tbib.org",
                "#": "some sites have different domains for API access",
                "#": "use the 'api_root' option in addition to the 'root' setting here"
            }
        },

        "tbib": {
            "#": "the following options are only used for TBIB",
            "#": "gelbooru_v02 has four subcategories at the moment, use custom directory settings for all of these",
            "tag":
            {
                "directory": {
                    "locals().get('bkey')": ["Other Boorus", "TBIB", "Tags", "{bkey}", "{ckey}", "{search_tags}"],
                    ""                    : ["Other Boorus", "TBIB", "Tags", "_Unsorted", "{search_tags}"]
                }
            },
            "pool":
            {
                "directory": {
                    "locals().get('bkey')": ["Other Boorus", "TBIB", "Pools", "{bkey}", "{ckey}", "{pool}"],
                    ""                    : ["Other Boorus", "TBIB", "Pools", "_Unsorted", "{pool}"]
                }
            },
            "favorite":
            {
                "directory": {
                    "locals().get('bkey')": ["Other Boorus", "TBIB", "Favorites", "{bkey}", "{ckey}", "{favorite_id}"],
                    ""                    : ["Other Boorus", "TBIB", "Favorites", "_Unsorted", "{favorite_id}"]
                }
            },
            "post":
            {
                "directory": ["Other Boorus", "TBIB", "Posts"]
            },
            "archive": "~/gallery-dl/custom-archive-file-for-TBIB.db",
            "filename": "{id}_{md5}.{extension}",
            "sleep-request": [0, 1.2]
        }
    },

    "downloader":
    {
        "#": "restrict download speed to 1 MB/s",
        "rate": "1M",

        "#": "show download progress indicator after 2 seconds",
        "progress": 2.0,

        "#": "retry failed downloads up to 3 times",
        "retries": 3,

        "#": "consider a download 'failed' after 8 seconds of inactivity",
        "timeout": 8.0,

        "#": "write '.part' files into a special directory",
        "part-directory": "/tmp/.download/",

        "#": "do not update file modification times",
        "mtime": false,

        "ytdl":
        {
            "#": "use yt-dlp instead of youtube-dl",
            "module": "yt_dlp"
        }
    },

    "output":
    {
        "log": {
            "level": "info",

            "#": "use different ANSI colors for each log level",
            "format": {
                "debug"  : "\u001b[0;37m{name}: {message}\u001b[0m",
                "info"   : "\u001b[1;37m{name}: {message}\u001b[0m",
                "warning": "\u001b[1;33m{name}: {message}\u001b[0m",
                "error"  : "\u001b[1;31m{name}: {message}\u001b[0m"
            }
        },

        "#": "shorten filenames to fit into one terminal line",
        "#": "while also considering wider East-Asian characters",
        "shorten": "eaw",

        "#": "write logging messages to a separate file",
        "logfile": {
            "path": "~/gallery-dl/log.txt",
            "mode": "w",
            "level": "debug"
        },

        "#": "write unrecognized URLs to a separate file",
        "unsupportedfile": {
            "path": "~/gallery-dl/unsupported.txt",
            "mode": "a",
            "format": "{asctime} {message}",
            "format-date": "%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S"
        }
    },

    "postprocessor":
    {
        "#": "write 'content' metadata into separate files",
        "content":
        {
            "name" : "metadata",

            "#": "write data for every post instead of each individual file",
            "event": "post",
            "filename": "{post_id|tweet_id|id}.txt",

            "#": "write only the values for 'content' or 'description'",
            "mode" : "custom",
            "format": "{content|description}\n"
        },

        "#": "put files into a '.cbz' archive",
        "cbz":
        {
            "name": "zip",
            "extension": "cbz"
        },

        "#": "various ugoira post processor configurations to create different file formats",
        "ugoira-webm":
        {
            "name": "ugoira",
            "extension": "webm",
            "ffmpeg-args": ["-c:v", "libvpx-vp9", "-an", "-b:v", "0", "-crf", "30"],
            "ffmpeg-twopass": true,
            "ffmpeg-demuxer": "image2"
        },
        "ugoira-mp4":
        {
            "name": "ugoira",
            "extension": "mp4",
            "ffmpeg-args": ["-c:v", "libx264", "-an", "-b:v", "4M", "-preset", "veryslow"],
            "ffmpeg-twopass": true,
            "libx264-prevent-odd": true
        },
        "ugoira-gif":
        {
            "name": "ugoira",
            "extension": "gif",
            "ffmpeg-args": ["-filter_complex", "[0:v] split [a][b];[a] palettegen [p];[b][p] paletteuse"]
        },
        "ugoira-copy": {
            "name": "ugoira",
            "extension": "mkv",
            "ffmpeg-args": ["-c", "copy"],
            "libx264-prevent-odd": false,
            "repeat-last-frame": false
        }
    },

    "#": "use a custom cache file location",
    "cache": {
        "file": "~/gallery-dl/cache.sqlite3"
    }
}