[instagram] lots of webp downloads

[cheese1218]

So I just started using gallery-dl again to download from instagram after a couple years and I noticed that it's giving me tons of webp files as well - would anyone here have any insights at all to why this might be and if there is a solution to this? I'd rather get a png or jpg instead of a webp file if possible to clarify some sort of option for this.

[mikf]

Could you provide an example post with .webp files?
I searched a bit and can't find any.

[cheese1218]

yeah sorry for not providing them earlier. here's a bunch of examples.

1. https://www.instagram.com/p/DBti_uNuv8u/?img_index=1
2. https://www.instagram.com/p/DBmlGZgMHTB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
3. https://www.instagram.com/p/DBm7MZhyyma/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
4. https://www.instagram.com/p/DB-QFsXIIAF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[cheese1218]

also @mikf this is unrelated but i wanted to avoid making a new issue just for this but how would i get gallery-dl to use my custom yt-dlp config for instagram? i tried doing this but the output with this is that it just ends up using yt-dlp entirely and it ignores my instagram config so i get a file in my users folder which looks like this 3445461475109894922.mp4 instead of misssjuline 2024-08-29 3445461475109894922_67778197194_1.mp4

        {
			"filename": "{username} {date:%Y-%m-%d} {post_id}_{owner_id}_{num}.{extension}",
            "api": "rest",
            "cookies": null,
            "include": "stories",
            "sleep-request": [6.0, 12.0],
            "videos": yt-dlp/testers,
			"saved": {
                "directory": ["{category}", "Saved"],
                "highlights": {
                    "directory": ["Highlights", "{highlight_title}"],
                    "filename": "{date:%Y-%m-%d} {post_id}_{num}.{extension}"
                }
            }
        },```
        

[mikf]

Fixed in 5cc9ca7
Not disabling downloader.http.adjust-extensions would have "fixed" this as well.

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but how would i get gallery-dl to use my custom yt-dlp config for instagram?

Using yt-dlp to download IG videos is not supported.

and it ignores my instagram config

"videos": yt-dlp/testers, is invalid JSON, so it causes gallery-dl to ignore all your config settings.

[cheese1218]

Using yt-dlp to download IG videos is not supported.

Oh I see, is there any plans on supporting it in the future?

[mikf]

No, not really. Handling posts with mixed images and videos would be rather complicated I think.

[cheese1218]

@mikf the webp bug is still there btw if the posts you are downloading are saved inside your saved posts they will continue to download as those webp files, but if you download 1 post using it's specific url you get the jpg.

[cheese1218]

let me know if you want me to post a verbose log for this or you could just save any of the links i sent you earlier into your saved posts and then try downloading https://www.instagram.com/user/saved/

[mikf]

I've added your examples to my saved posts and they all have the correct .jpg filename extension:

$ gallery-dl --print extension https://www.instagram.com/user/saved/all-posts/
jpg
./instagram/90smoment/3489599198812897070_3489599191691029619.jpg
jpg
./instagram/90smoment/3489599198812897070_3489599191497913247.jpg
jpg
./instagram/90smoment/3489599198812897070_3489599191489578298.jpg

Given that these .webp files aren't actually WebP files but JPEGs with the wrong filename extension (which adjust-extensions would fix, by the way), you could use extension-map to have them renamed to jpg.

    "extension-map": {"webp": "jpg"}