Patreon-related issues

[SumatraPeter]

I'm trying to download only certain (not all) public files from a creator's Patreon that I'm not subscribed to. The creator has non-public files as well of course, available only to subscribers at various tiers, but I'm not concerned about those here. I'm not logged in to Patreon either. All target files are images that I'm able to view fine via a browser.

gallery-dl.exe "https://www.patreon.com/user/posts?u=CreatorID&filters[tag]=Word1 Word2"
resulted in

[patreon][error] NotFoundError: Requested creator could not be found

gallery-dl.exe "https://www.patreon.com/CreatorName/posts?filters[tag]=Word1 Word2"
on the other hand worked, but instead of downloading attachments from posts that only matched the tag filter, I found that it was downloading attachments from all the public posts of the creator.

So my request would be to have the program recognize Patreon URLs containing the CreatorID instead of the CreatorName, and to properly obey any specified tag filters.

[mikf]

233b6f9 now recognizes Patreon URLs with creator IDs.

Applying filters from URL queries hasn't been implemented yet, but you can always use --filter to manually filter posts by their metadata.

[SumatraPeter]

Thanks for what's been implemented so far!

you can always use --filter to manually filter posts by their metadata

I don't know how to get this to work - can you please point me to some documentation about it?

[mikf]

Filter statements (and post sort order) in query parameters now get recognized (fc3e542)

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I don't know how to get this to work - can you please point me to some documentation about it?

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/configuration.rst#extractorimage-filter
You would basically have to write custom Python statements to evaluate a file's metadata (-j) to decide whether or not to download it. It's not the easiest thing, but it can at least sometimes be used as a fallback when certain features aren't implemented in gallery-dl itself.