how to use this within my code

[terfani]

Hi, What I specifically need is to sign in to my twitter or any other platform and then download images from another user that I follow. I want to use this within my other python code to automate a simple check and done task written on python. How to use this as a function of my code avoiding logging in repeatedly to the platform (twitter or others) and download the images straight to a given folder?

[JSouthGB]

#642 and #146 should be helpful.

[mikf]

Set all necessary options with config.set() and run job.DownloadJob(url).run() to download files.

Example:

from gallery_dl import config, job, output

def init():
    config.set((), "base-directory", "/target/dir/")
    config.set((), "directory", ())
    config.set(("extractor", "twitter"), "username", "MY_USER")
    config.set(("extractor", "twitter"), "password", "MY_PASS")

def download(url):
    return job.DownloadJob(url).run()

avoiding logging in repeatedly

Login sessions get cached in memory and cache.file