Provided by: gallery-dl_1.29.3-1_all 
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
* object (condition -> format string)
Example:
"{manga}_c{chapter}_{page:>03}.{extension}"
{ "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
* object (condition -> format strings)
Example:
["{category}", "{manga}", "c{chapter} - {title}"]
{ "'nature' in content": ["Nature Pictures"], "retweet_id != 0" : ["{category}", "{user[name]}",
"Retweets"], "" : ["{category}", "{user[name]}"] }
Description:
A list of format strings to build target directory paths with.
If this is an object, it must contain Python expressions mapping to the list of format strings to
use.
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.*.metadata-parent
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: false
Description:
If true, overwrite any metadata provided by a child extractor with its parent's.
If this is a string, add a parent's metadata to its children's
to a field named after said string. For example with "parent-metadata": "_p_":
{ "id": "child-id", "_p_": {"id": "parent-id"} }
extractor.*.parent-skip
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Share number of skipped downloads between parent and child extractors.
extractor.*.path-restrict
Type:
* string
* object (character -> replacement character(s))
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_." (only ASCII digits, letters, underscores, and dots)
* "ascii+": "^0-9@-[\\]-{ #-)+-.;=!}~" (all ASCII characters except the ones not allowed by Windows)
Implementation Detail: For strings with length >= 2, this option uses a Regular Expression Character
Set, meaning that:
* using a caret ^ as first character inverts the set
* character ranges are supported (0-9a-z)
* ], -, and \ need to be escaped as \\], \\-, and \\\\ respectively to use them as literal characters
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.*.path-strip
Type: string
Default: "auto"
Description:
Set of characters to remove from the end of generated path segment names using str.rstrip()
Special values:
* "auto": Use characters from "unix" or "windows" depending on the local operating system
* "unix": ""
* "windows": ". "
extractor.*.path-extended
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
On Windows, use extended-length paths prefixed with \\?\ to work around the 260 characters path
length limit.
extractor.*.extension-map
Type: object (extension -> replacement)
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
* 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.*.skip-filter
Type: string
Description:
Python expression controlling which skipped files to count towards "abort" / "terminate" / "exit".
extractor.*.sleep
Type: Duration
Default: 0
Description:
Number of seconds to sleep before each download.
extractor.*.sleep-extractor
Type: Duration
Default: 0
Description:
Number of seconds to sleep before handling an input URL, i.e. before starting a new extractor.
extractor.*.sleep-429
Type: Duration
Default: 60
Description:
Number of seconds to sleep when receiving a 429 Too Many Requests response before retrying the
request.
extractor.*.sleep-request
Type: Duration
Default:
* "0.5-1.5" ao3, arcalive, civitai, [Danbooru], [E621], [foolfuuka]:search, itaku, koharu,
newgrounds, [philomena], pixiv:novel, plurk, poipiku , pornpics, scrolller, soundgasm,
urlgalleries, vk, weebcentral, xfolio, zerochan
* "1.0" furaffinity
* "1.0-2.0" flickr, pexels, weibo, [wikimedia]
* "1.4" wallhaven
* "2.0-4.0" behance, imagefap, [Nijie]
* "3.0-6.0" bilibili, exhentai, idolcomplex, [reactor], readcomiconline
* "6.0-6.1" twibooru
* "6.0-12.0" instagram
* 0 otherwise
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.
This is supported for
* aibooru (*)
* ao3
* aryion
* atfbooru (*)
* bluesky
* booruvar (*)
* coomerparty
* danbooru (*)
* deviantart
* e621 (*)
* e6ai (*)
* e926 (*)
* exhentai
* horne (R)
* idolcomplex
* imgbb
* inkbunny
* kemonoparty
* koharu
* mangadex
* mangoxo
* newgrounds
* nijie (R)
* pillowfort
* sankaku
* scrolller
* seiga
* subscribestar
* tapas
* tsumino
* twitter
* vipergirls
* zerochan
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 these sites should be the API key found in your user profile, not the
actual account password.
(R) Login with username & password or supplying logged-in cookies is required
Note: Leave the password value empty or undefined to be prompted for a password when performing a
login (see getpass()).
extractor.*.input
Type: bool
Default: true if stdin is attached to a terminal, false otherwise
Description:
Allow prompting the user for interactive input.
extractor.*.netrc
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Enable the use of .netrc authentication data.
extractor.*.cookies
Type:
* Path
* object (name -> value)
* list
Description:
Source to read additional cookies from. This can be
* The Path to a Mozilla/Netscape format cookies.txt file
"~/.local/share/cookies-instagram-com.txt"
* An object specifying cookies as name-value pairs
{ "cookie-name": "cookie-value", "sessionid" : "14313336321%3AsabDFvuASDnlpb%3A31", "isAdult" :
"1" }
* A list with up to 5 entries specifying a browser profile.
* The first entry is the browser name
* The optional second entry is a profile name or an absolute path to a profile directory
* The optional third entry is the keyring to retrieve passwords for decrypting cookies from
* The optional fourth entry is a (Firefox) container name ("none" for only cookies with no container
(default))
* The optional fifth entry is the domain to extract cookies for. Prefix it with a dot . to include
cookies for subdomains.
["firefox"] ["firefox", null, null, "Personal"] ["chromium", "Private", "kwallet", null,
".twitter.com"]
extractor.*.cookies-select
Type: string
Default: "random"
Description:
Interpret extractor.cookies as a list of cookie sources and select one of them for each extractor
run.
* "random": Select cookies randomly
* "rotate": Select cookies in sequence. Start over from the beginning after reaching the end of the
list.
[ "~/.local/share/cookies-instagram-com-1.txt", "~/.local/share/cookies-instagram-com-2.txt",
"~/.local/share/cookies-instagram-com-3.txt", ["firefox", null, null, "c1", ".instagram-com"], ]
extractor.*.cookies-update
Type:
* bool
* Path
Default: true
Description:
Export session cookies in cookies.txt format.
* If this is a Path, write cookies to the given file path.
* If this is true and extractor.*.cookies specifies the Path of a valid cookies.txt file, update its
contents.
extractor.*.proxy
Type:
* string
* object (scheme -> proxy)
Example:
"http://10.10.1.10:3128"
{ "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" }
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.
Note: If a proxy URL does not include a scheme, http:// is assumed.
extractor.*.proxy-env
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Collect proxy configuration information from environment variables (HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY,
NO_PROXY) and Windows Registry settings.
extractor.*.source-address
Type:
* string
* list with 1 string and 1 integer as elements
Example:
* "192.168.178.20"
* ["192.168.178.20", 8080]
Description:
Client-side IP address to bind to.
Can be either a simple string with just the local IP address
or a list with IP and explicit port number as elements.
extractor.*.user-agent
Type: string
Default:
* "gallery-dl/VERSION": [Danbooru], mangadex
* "gallery-dl/VERSION (by mikf)": [E621]
* "Patreon/72.2.28 (Android; Android 14; Scale/2.10)": patreon
* "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:LATEST) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/LATEST":
otherwise
Description:
User-Agent header value used for HTTP requests.
Setting this value to "browser" will try to automatically detect and use the User-Agent header of the
system's default browser.
Note: This option has *no* effect if extractor.browser is enabled.
extractor.*.browser
Type: string
Default:
* "firefox": artstation, mangasee, twitter
* null: otherwise
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: This option overrides user-agent and sets custom headers and ciphers defaults.
Note: requests and urllib3 only support HTTP/1.1, while a real browser would use HTTP/2.
extractor.*.referer
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Description:
Send Referer headers with all outgoing HTTP requests.
If this is a string, send it as Referer instead of the extractor's root domain.
extractor.*.headers
Type: object (name -> value)
Default:
{ "User-Agent" : "<extractor.*.user-agent>", "Accept" : "*/*", "Accept-Language":
"en-US,en;q=0.5", "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate", "Referer" : "<extractor.*.referer>"
}
Description:
Additional HTTP headers to be sent with each HTTP request,
To disable sending a header, set its value to null.
extractor.*.ciphers
Type: list of strings
Example:
["ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256", "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256", "ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305",
"ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305"]
Description:
List of TLS/SSL cipher suites in OpenSSL cipher list format to be passed to
ssl.SSLContext.set_ciphers()
extractor.*.tls12
Type: bool
Default:
* false: artstation
* true: otherwise
Description:
Allow selecting TLS 1.2 cipher suites.
Can be disabled to alter TLS fingerprints and potentially bypass Cloudflare blocks.
extractor.*.keywords
Type: object (name -> value)
Example:
{"type": "Pixel Art", "type_id": 123}
Description:
Additional name-value pairs to be added to each metadata dictionary.
extractor.*.keywords-eval
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Evaluate each keywords string value as a format string.
extractor.*.keywords-default
Type: any
Default: "None"
Description:
Default value used for missing or undefined keyword names in format strings.
extractor.*.url-metadata
Type: string
Description:
Insert a file's download URL into its metadata dictionary as the given name.
For example, setting this option to "gdl_file_url" will cause a new metadata field with name
gdl_file_url to appear, which contains the current file's download URL. This can then be used in
filenames, with a metadata post processor, etc.
extractor.*.path-metadata
Type: string
Description:
Insert a reference to the current PathFormat data structure into metadata dictionaries as the given
name.
For example, setting this option to "gdl_path" would make it possible to access the current file's
filename as "{gdl_path.filename}".
extractor.*.extractor-metadata
Type: string
Description:
Insert a reference to the current Extractor object into metadata dictionaries as the given name.
extractor.*.http-metadata
Type: string
Description:
Insert an object containing a file's HTTP headers and filename, extension, and date parsed from them
into metadata dictionaries as the given name.
For example, setting this option to "gdl_http" would make it possible to access the current file's
Last-Modified header as "{gdl_http[Last-Modified]}" and its parsed form as "{gdl_http[date]}".
extractor.*.version-metadata
Type: string
Description:
Insert an object containing gallery-dl's version info into metadata dictionaries as the given name.
The content of the object is as follows:
{ "version" : "string", "is_executable" : "bool", "current_git_head": "string or null" }
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
Example:
["imgur", "redgifs:user", "*:image"]
Description:
A list of extractor identifiers to ignore (or allow) when spawning child extractors for unknown URLs,
e.g. from reddit or plurk.
Each identifier can be
* A category or basecategory name ("imgur", "mastodon")
* | A (base)category-subcategory pair, where both names are separated by a colon ("redgifs:user").
Both names can be a * or left empty, matching all possible names ("*:image", ":user").
Note: Any blacklist setting will automatically include "oauth", "recursive", and "test".
extractor.*.archive
Type:
* string
* Path
Default: null
Example:
* "$HOME/.archives/{category}.sqlite3"
* "postgresql://user:pass@host/database"
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.
If this value is a PostgreSQL Connection URI, the archive will use this PostgreSQL database as
backend (requires Psycopg).
Note: Archive files that do not already exist get generated automatically.
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-event
Type: + string + list of strings
Default: "file"
Example:
* "file,skip"
* ["file", "skip"]
Description:
Event(s) for which IDs get written to an archive.
Available events are: file, skip
extractor.*.archive-format
Type: string
Example:
"{id}_{offset}"
Description:
An alternative format string to build archive IDs with.
extractor.*.archive-mode
Type: string
Default: "file"
Description:
Controls when to write archive IDs to the archive database.
* "file": Write IDs immediately after completing or skipping a file download.
* "memory": Keep IDs in memory and only write them after successful job completion.
extractor.*.archive-prefix
Type: string
Default:
* "" when archive-table is set
* "{category}" otherwise
Description:
Prefix for archive IDs.
extractor.*.archive-pragma
Type: list of strings
Example:
["journal_mode=WAL", "synchronous=NORMAL"]
Description:
A list of SQLite PRAGMA statements to run during archive initialization.
See <https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#toc> for available PRAGMA statements and further details.
extractor.*.archive-table
Type: string
Default: "archive"
Example:
"{category}"
Description:
Format string selecting the archive database table name.
extractor.*.actions
Type:
* object (pattern -> action(s))
* list of lists with pattern -> action(s) pairs as elements
Example:
{ "info:Logging in as .+" : "level = debug", "warning:(?i)unable to .+": "exit 127", "error"
: [ "status = 1", "exec notify.sh 'gdl error'", "abort" ] }
[ ["info:Logging in as .+" , "level = debug"], ["warning:(?i)unable to .+", "exit 127" ],
["error" , [ "status = 1", "exec notify.sh 'gdl error'", "abort" ]] ]
Description:
Perform an action when logging a message matched by pattern.
pattern is parsed as severity level (debug, info, warning, error, or integer value) followed by an
optional Python Regular Expression separated by a colon :. Using * as level or leaving it empty
matches logging messages of all levels (e.g. *:<re> or :<re>).
action is parsed as action type followed by (optional) arguments.
It is possible to specify more than one action per pattern by providing them as a list: ["<action1>",
"<action2>", …]
Supported Action Types:
status: Modify job exit status.
Expected syntax is <operator> <value> (e.g. = 100).
Supported operators are = (assignment), & (bitwise AND), | (bitwise OR), ^ (bitwise XOR). level:
Modify severity level of the current logging message.
Can be one of debug, info, warning, error or an integer value.
print: Write argument to stdout. exec: Run a shell command. abort: Stop the current extractor run.
terminate: Stop the current extractor run, including parent extractors. restart: Restart the current
extractor run. wait: Sleep for a given Duration or
wait until Enter is pressed when no argument was given.
exit: Exit the program with the given argument as exit status.
extractor.*.postprocessors
Type:
* Postprocessor Configuration object
* 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.*.postprocessor-options
Type: object (name -> value)
Example:
{ "archive": null, "keep-files": true }
Description:
Additional Postprocessor Options that get added to each individual post processor object before
initializing it and evaluating filters.
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.*.retry-codes
Type: list of integers
Example:
[404, 429, 430]
Description:
Additional HTTP response status codes to retry an HTTP request on.
2xx codes (success responses) and 3xx codes (redirection messages) will never be retried and always
count as success, regardless of this option.
5xx codes (server error responses) will always be retried, regardless of this option.
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
* 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.*.fallback
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Use fallback download URLs when a download fails.
extractor.*.image-range
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Examples:
* "10-20"
* "-5, 10, 30-50, 100-"
* "10:21, 30:51:2, :5, 100:"
* ["-5", "10", "30-50", "100-"]
Description:
Index range(s) selecting which files to download.
These can be specified as
* index: 3 (file number 3)
* range: 2-4 (files 2, 3, and 4)
* slice: 3:8:2 (files 3, 5, and 7)
Arguments for range and slice notation are optional
and will default to begin (1) or end (sys.maxsize) if omitted. For example 5-, 5:, and 5:: all mean
"Start at file number 5".
Note: The index of the first file 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
* list of strings
Examples:
* "re.search(r'foo(bar)+', description)"
* ["width >= 1200", "width/height > 1.2"]
Description:
Python expression controlling which files to download.
A file only gets downloaded when *all* of the given expressions evaluate to True.
Available values are the filename-specific ones listed by -K or -j.
extractor.*.chapter-filter
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Examples:
* "lang == 'en'"
* ["language == 'French'", "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.
Note: Despite its name, this option does **not** control how {date} metadata fields are formatted.
To use a different formatting for those values other than the default %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S, put strptime
formatting directives after a colon :, for example {date:%Y%m%d}.
extractor.*.write-pages
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: false
Description:
During data extraction, write received HTTP request data to enumerated files in the current working
directory.
Special values:
* "all": Include HTTP request and response headers. Hide Authorization, Cookie, and Set-Cookie
values.
* "ALL": Include all HTTP request and response headers.
EXTRACTOR-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
extractor.ao3.formats
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "pdf"
Example:
* "azw3,epub,mobi,pdf,html"
* ["azw3", "epub", "mobi", "pdf", "html"]
Description:
Format(s) to download.
extractor.arcalive.emoticons
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Download emoticon images.
extractor.arcalive.gifs
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Description:
Try to download .gif versions of .mp4 videos.
true | "fallback Use the .gif version as primary URL and provide the .mp4 one as fallback. "check"
Check whether a .gif version is available by sending an extra HEAD request. false Always download
the .mp4 version.
extractor.artstation.external
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Try to follow external URLs of embedded players.
extractor.artstation.max-posts
Type: integer
Default: null
Description:
Limit the number of posts/projects to download.
extractor.artstation.previews
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Download video previews.
extractor.artstation.videos
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download video clips.
extractor.artstation.search.pro-first
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Enable the "Show Studio and Pro member artwork first" checkbox when retrieving search results.
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.batoto.domain
Type: string
Default: "auto"
Example:
"mangatoto.org"
Description:
Specifies the domain used by batoto extractors.
"auto" | "url" Use the input URL's domain "nolegacy" Use the input URL's domain
- replace legacy domains with "xbato.org" "nowarn" Use the input URL's domain
- do not warn about legacy domains any string Use this domain
extractor.bbc.width
Type: integer
Default: 1920
Description:
Specifies the requested image width.
This value must be divisble by 16 and gets rounded down otherwise. The maximum possible value
appears to be 1920.
extractor.behance.modules
Type: list of strings
Default: ["image", "video", "mediacollection", "embed"]
Description:
Selects which gallery modules to download from.
Supported module types are image, video, mediacollection, embed, text.
extractor.[blogger].api-key
Type: string
Description:
Custom Blogger API key.
https://developers.google.com/blogger/docs/3.0/using#APIKey
extractor.[blogger].videos
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download embedded videos hosted on https://www.blogger.com/
extractor.bluesky.include
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default:
* "posts" if reposts or quoted is enabled
* "media" otherwise
Example:
* "avatar,background,posts"
* ["avatar", "background", "posts"]
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile.
Possible values are "info", "avatar", "background", "posts", "replies", "media", "likes",
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
extractor.bluesky.metadata
Type:
* bool
* string
* list of strings
Default: false
Example:
* "facets,user"
* ["facets", "user"]
Description:
Extract additional metadata.
* facets: hashtags, mentions, and uris
* user: detailed user metadata for the user referenced in the input URL (See
app.bsky.actor.getProfile).
extractor.bluesky.post.depth
Type: integer
Default: 0
Description:
Sets the maximum depth of returned reply posts.
(See depth parameter of app.bsky.feed.getPostThread)
extractor.bluesky.quoted
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Fetch media from quoted posts.
extractor.bluesky.reposts
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Process reposts.
extractor.bluesky.videos
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download videos.
extractor.boosty.allowed
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Request only available posts.
extractor.boosty.bought
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Request only purchased posts for feed results.
extractor.boosty.metadata
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Provide detailed user metadata.
extractor.boosty.videos
Type:
* bool
* list of strings
Default: true
Example:
["full_hd", "high", "medium"]
Description:
Download videos.
If this is a list, it selects which format to try to download.
Possibly available formats are
* ultra_hd (2160p)
* quad_hd (1440p)
* full_hd (1080p)
* high (720p)
* medium (480p)
* low (360p)
* lowest (240p)
* tiny (144p)
extractor.bunkr.endpoint
Type: string
Default: "/api/_001"
Description:
API endpoint for retrieving file URLs.
extractor.bunkr.tlds
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Controls which bunkr TLDs to accept.
* true: Match URLs with *all* possible TLDs (e.g. bunkr.xyz or bunkrrr.duck)
* false: Match only URLs with known TLDs
extractor.cien.files
Type: list of strings
Default: ["image", "video", "download", "gallery"]
Description:
Determines the type and order of files to download.
Available types are image, video, download, gallery.
extractor.civitai.api
Type: string
Default: "trpc"
Description:
Selects which API endpoints to use.
* "rest": Public REST API
* "trpc": Internal tRPC API
extractor.civitai.api-key
Type: string
Description:
The API Key value generated in your User Account Settings to make authorized API requests.
See API/Authorization for details.
extractor.civitai.files
Type: list of strings
Default: ["image"]
Description:
Determines the type and order of files to download when processing models.
Available types are model, image, gallery.
extractor.civitai.include
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: ["user-models", "user-posts"]
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile.
Possible values are
* "user-models"
* "user-posts"
* "user-images"
* "user-videos"
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
extractor.civitai.metadata
Type:
* bool
* string
* list of strings
Default: false
Example:
* "generation"
* ["generation"]
Description:
Extract additional generation metadata.
Note: This requires 1 additional HTTP request per image or video.
extractor.civitai.nsfw
Type:
* bool
* string ("api": "rest")
* integer ("api": "trpc")
Default: true
Description:
Download images rated NSFW.
* For "api": "rest", this can be one of "None", "Soft", "Mature", "X" to set the highest returned
mature content flag.
* For "api": "trpc", this can be an integer whose bits select the returned mature content flags.
For example, 12 (48) would return only Mature and X rated images, while 3 (12) would return only
None and Soft rated images,
extractor.civitai.quality
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "original=true"
Example:
* "width=1280,quality=90"
* ["width=1280", "quality=90"]
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of image quality options to pass with every image URL.
Known available options include original, quality, width
Note: Set this option to an arbitrary letter, e.g., "w", to download images in JPEG format at their
original resolution.
extractor.cyberdrop.domain
Type: string
Default: null
Example:
"cyberdrop.to"
Description:
Specifies the domain used by cyberdrop regardless of input URL.
Setting this option to "auto" uses the same domain as a given input URL.
extractor.[Danbooru].external
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
For unavailable or restricted posts, follow the source and download from there if possible.
extractor.[Danbooru].favgroup.order-posts
Type: string
Default: "pool"
Description:
Controls the order in which pool/favgroup posts are returned.
"pool" "pool_asc" "asc" "asc_pool" Pool order "pool_desc" "desc_pool" "desc" Reverse Pool order
"id" "id_desc" "desc_id" Descending Post ID order "id_asc" "asc_id" Ascending Post ID order
extractor.[Danbooru].ugoira
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Controls the download target for Ugoira posts.
* true: Original ZIP archives
* false: Converted video files
extractor.[Danbooru].metadata
Type:
* bool
* string
* list of strings
Default: false
Example:
* "replacements,comments,ai_tags"
* ["replacements", "comments", "ai_tags"]
Description:
Extract additional metadata (notes, artist commentary, parent, children, uploader)
It is possible to specify a custom list of metadata includes. See available_includes for possible
field names. aibooru also supports ai_metadata.
Note: This requires 1 additional HTTP request per 200-post batch.
extractor.[Danbooru].threshold
Type:
* string
* integer
Default: "auto"
Description:
Stop paginating over API results if the length of a batch of returned posts is less than the
specified number. Defaults to the per-page limit of the current instance, which is 200.
Note: Changing this setting is normally not necessary. When the value is greater than the per-page
limit, gallery-dl will stop after the first batch. The value cannot be less than 1.
extractor.deviantart.auto-watch
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Automatically watch users when encountering "Watchers-Only Deviations" (requires a refresh-token).
extractor.deviantart.auto-unwatch
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
After watching a user through auto-watch, unwatch that user at the end of the current extractor run.
extractor.deviantart.comments
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Extract comments metadata.
extractor.deviantart.comments-avatars
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Download the avatar of each commenting user.
Note: Enabling this option also enables deviantart.comments_.
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.group
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Description:
Check whether the profile name in a given URL belongs to a group or a regular user.
When disabled, assume every given profile name belongs to a regular user.
Special values:
* "skip": Skip groups
extractor.deviantart.include
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "gallery"
Example:
* "favorite,journal,scraps"
* ["favorite", "journal", "scraps"]
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile.
Possible values are "avatar", "background", "gallery", "scraps", "journal", "favorite", "status".
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
extractor.deviantart.intermediary
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
For older non-downloadable images, download a higher-quality /intermediary/ version.
extractor.deviantart.journals
Type: string
Default: "html"
Description:
Selects the output format for textual content. This includes journals, literature and status updates.
* "html": HTML with (roughly) the same layout as on DeviantArt.
* "text": Plain text with image references and HTML tags removed.
* "none": Don't download textual content.
extractor.deviantart.jwt
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Update JSON Web Tokens (the token URL parameter) of otherwise non-downloadable, low-resolution images
to be able to download them in full resolution.
Note: No longer functional as of 2023-10-11
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
* string
* list of strings
Default: false
Example:
* "stats,submission"
* ["camera", "stats", "submission"]
Description:
Extract additional metadata for deviation objects.
Provides description, tags, license, and is_watching fields when enabled.
It is possible to request extended metadata by specifying a list of
* camera : EXIF information (if available)
* stats : deviation statistics
* submission : submission information
* collection : favourited folder information (requires a refresh token)
* gallery : gallery folder information (requires a refresh token)
Set this option to "all" to request all extended metadata categories.
See /deviation/metadata for official documentation.
extractor.deviantart.original
Type:
* bool
* 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, videos, etc.).
extractor.deviantart.pagination
Type: string
Default: "api"
Description:
Controls when to stop paginating over API results.
* "api": Trust the API and stop when has_more is false.
* "manual": Disregard has_more and only stop when a batch of results is empty.
extractor.deviantart.previews
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
For non-image files (archives, videos, etc.), also download the file's preview image.
Set this option to "all" to download previews for all files.
extractor.deviantart.public
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Use a public access token for API requests.
Disable this option to *force* using a private token for all requests when a refresh token is
provided.
extractor.deviantart.quality
Type:
* integer
* string
Default: 100
Description:
JPEG quality level of images for which an original file download is not available.
Set this to "png" to download a PNG version of these images instead.
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.deviantart.avatar.formats
Type: list of strings
Example:
["original.jpg", "big.jpg", "big.gif", ".png"]
Description:
Avatar URL formats to return.
Each format is parsed as SIZE.EXT.
Leave SIZE empty to download the regular, small avatar format.
extractor.deviantart.folder.subfolders
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Also extract subfolder content.
extractor.discord.embeds
Type: list of strings
Default: ["image", "gifv", "video"]
Description:
Selects which embed types to download from.
Supported embed types are image, gifv, video, rich, article, link.
extractor.discord.threads
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Extract threads from Discord text channels.
extractor.discord.token
Type: string
Description:
Discord Bot Token for API requests.
You can follow this guide to get a token.
extractor.[E621].metadata
Type:
* bool
* string
* list of strings
Default: false
Example:
* "notes,pools"
* ["notes", "pools"]
Description:
Extract additional metadata (notes, pool metadata) if available.
Note: This requires 0-2 additional HTTP requests per post.
extractor.[E621].threshold
Type:
* string
* integer
Default: "auto"
Description:
Stop paginating over API results if the length of a batch of returned posts is less than the
specified number. Defaults to the per-page limit of the current instance, which is 320.
Note: Changing this setting is normally not necessary. When the value is greater than the per-page
limit, gallery-dl will stop after the first batch. The value cannot be less than 1.
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.fallback-retries
Type: integer
Default: 2
Description:
Number of times a failed image gets retried or -1 for infinite retries.
extractor.exhentai.fav
Type: string
Example:
"4"
Description:
After downloading a gallery, add it to your account's favorites as the given category number.
Note: Set this to "favdel" to remove galleries from your favorites.
Note: This will remove any Favorite Notes when applied to already favorited galleries.
extractor.exhentai.gp
Type: string
Default: "resized"
Description:
Selects how to handle "you do not have enough GP" errors.
* "resized": Continue downloading non-original images.
* "stop": Stop the current extractor run.
* "wait": Wait for user input before retrying the current image.
extractor.exhentai.limits
Type: integer
Default: null
Description:
Sets a custom image download limit and stops extraction when it gets exceeded.
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.exhentai.source
Type: string
Default: "gallery"
Description:
Selects an alternative source to download files from.
* "hitomi": Download the corresponding gallery from hitomi.la
extractor.exhentai.tags
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Group tags by type and provide them as tags_<type> metadata fields, for example tags_artist or
tags_character.
extractor.facebook.author-followups
Type: bool
Default: false
description:
Extract comments that include photo attachments made by the author of the post.
extractor.facebook.videos
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Description:
Control video download behavior.
* true: Extract and download video & audio separately.
* "ytdl": Let ytdl handle video extraction and download, and merge video & audio streams.
* false: Ignore videos.
extractor.fanbox.comments
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Extract comments metadata.
Note: This requires 1 or more additional API requests per post, depending on the number of comments.
extractor.fanbox.embeds
Type:
* bool
* 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 ytdl handle video extraction and download for YouTube, Vimeo, and
SoundCloud embeds.
* false: Ignore embeds.
extractor.fanbox.metadata
Type:
* bool
* string
* list of strings
Default: false
Example:
* user,plan,comments
* ["user", "plan", "comments"]
Description:
Extract plan and extended user metadata.
Supported fields when selecting which data to extract are
* comments
* plan
* user
Note: comments can also be enabled via fanbox.comments
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.contexts
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
For each photo, return the albums and pools it belongs to as set and pool metadata.
Note: This requires 1 additional API call per photo. See flickr.photos.getAllContexts for details.
extractor.flickr.exif
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
For each photo, return its EXIF/TIFF/GPS tags as exif and camera metadata.
Note: This requires 1 additional API call per photo. See flickr.photos.getExif for details.
extractor.flickr.metadata
Type:
* bool
* string
* list of strings
Default: false
Example:
* license,last_update,machine_tags
* ["license", "last_update", "machine_tags"]
Description:
Extract additional metadata (license, date_taken, original_format, last_update, geo, machine_tags,
o_dims)
It is possible to specify a custom list of metadata includes. See the extras parameter in Flickr's
API docs for possible field names.
extractor.flickr.videos
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Extract and download videos.
extractor.flickr.size-max
Type:
* integer
* 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.external
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Follow external URLs linked in descriptions.
extractor.furaffinity.include
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "gallery"
Example:
* "scraps,favorite"
* ["scraps", "favorite"]
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile.
Possible values are "gallery", "scraps", "favorite".
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
extractor.furaffinity.layout
Type: string
Default: "auto"
Description:
Selects which site layout to expect when parsing posts.
* "auto": Automatically differentiate between "old" and "new"
* "old": Expect the *old* site layout
* "new": Expect the *new* site layout
extractor.gelbooru.api-key & .user-id
Type: string
Default: null
Description:
Values from the API Access Credentials section found at the bottom of your Account Options page.
extractor.gelbooru.favorite.order-posts
Type: string
Default: "desc"
Description:
Controls the order in which favorited posts are returned.
* "asc": Ascending favorite date order (oldest first)
* "desc": Descending favorite date order (newest first)
* "reverse": Same as "asc"
extractor.generic.enabled
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Match **all** URLs not otherwise supported by gallery-dl, even ones without a generic: prefix.
extractor.gofile.api-token
Type: string
Default: null
Description:
API token value found at the bottom of your profile page.
If not set, a temporary guest token will be used.
extractor.gofile.website-token
Type: string
Description:
API token value used during API requests.
An invalid or not up-to-date value will result in 401 Unauthorized errors.
Keeping this option unset will use an extra HTTP request to attempt to fetch the current value used
by gofile.
extractor.gofile.recursive
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Recursively download files from subfolders.
extractor.hentaifoundry.include
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "pictures"
Example:
* "scraps,stories"
* ["scraps", "stories"]
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile.
Possible values are "pictures", "scraps", "stories", "favorite".
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
extractor.hitomi.format
Type: string
Default: "webp"
Description:
Selects which image format to download.
Available formats are "webp" and "avif".
extractor.imagechest.access-token
Type: string
Description:
Your personal Image Chest access token.
These tokens allow using the API instead of having to scrape HTML pages, providing more detailed
metadata. (date, description, etc)
See https://imgchest.com/docs/api/1.0/general/authorization for instructions on how to generate such
a token.
extractor.imgur.client-id
Type: string
Description:
Custom Client ID value for API requests.
extractor.imgur.mp4
Type:
* bool
* 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.api
Type: string
Default: "rest"
Description:
Selects which API endpoints to use.
* "rest": REST API - higher-resolution media
* "graphql": GraphQL API - lower-resolution media
extractor.instagram.cursor
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Example:
"3414259811154179155_25025320"
Description:
Controls from which position to start the extraction process from.
* true: Start from the beginning. Log the most recent cursor value when interrupted before reaching
the end.
* false: Start from the beginning.
* any string: Start from the position defined by this value.
extractor.instagram.include
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "posts"
Example:
* "stories,highlights,posts"
* ["stories", "highlights", "posts"]
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile.
Possible values are "posts", "reels", "tagged", "stories", "highlights", "info", "avatar".
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
extractor.instagram.max-posts
Type: integer
Default: null
Description:
Limit the number of posts to download.
extractor.instagram.metadata
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Provide extended user metadata even when referring to a user by ID, e.g. instagram.com/id:12345678.
Note: This metadata is always available when referring to a user by name, e.g.
instagram.com/USERNAME.
extractor.instagram.order-files
Type: string
Default: "asc"
Description:
Controls the order in which files of each post are returned.
* "asc": Same order as displayed in a post
* "desc": Reverse order as displayed in a post
* "reverse": Same as "desc"
Note: This option does *not* affect {num}. To enumerate files in reverse order, use count - num + 1.
extractor.instagram.order-posts
Type: string
Default: "asc"
Description:
Controls the order in which posts are returned.
* "asc": Same order as displayed
* "desc": Reverse order as displayed
* "id" or "id_asc": Ascending order by ID
* "id_desc": Descending order by ID
* "reverse": Same as "desc"
Note: This option only affects highlights.
extractor.instagram.previews
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Download video previews.
extractor.instagram.videos
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Description:
Controls video download behavior.
true "dash" "ytdl" Download videos from video_dash_manifest data using ytdl "merged" Download pre-
merged video formats false Do not download videos
extractor.itaku.videos
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download video files.
extractor.kemonoparty.archives
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Extract additional metadata for archives files, including file, file_list, and password.
Note: This requires 1 additional HTTP request per archives file.
extractor.kemonoparty.comments
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Extract comments metadata.
Note: This requires 1 additional HTTP request per post.
extractor.kemonoparty.duplicates
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Controls how to handle duplicate files in a post.
* true: Download duplicates
* false: Ignore duplicates
extractor.kemonoparty.dms
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Extract a user's direct messages as dms metadata.
extractor.kemonoparty.announcements
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Extract a user's announcements as announcements metadata.
extractor.kemonoparty.favorites
Type: string
Default: artist
Description:
Determines the type of favorites to be downloaded.
Available types are artist, and post.
extractor.kemonoparty.files
Type: list of strings
Default: ["attachments", "file", "inline"]
Description:
Determines the type and order of files to be downloaded.
Available types are file, attachments, and inline.
extractor.kemonoparty.max-posts
Type: integer
Default: null
Description:
Limit the number of posts to download.
extractor.kemonoparty.metadata
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Extract username and user_profile metadata.
extractor.kemonoparty.revisions
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: false
Description:
Extract post revisions.
Set this to "unique" to filter out duplicate revisions.
Note: This requires 1 additional HTTP request per post.
extractor.kemonoparty.order-revisions
Type: string
Default: "desc"
Description:
Controls the order in which revisions are returned.
* "asc": Ascending order (oldest first)
* "desc": Descending order (newest first)
* "reverse": Same as "asc"
extractor.khinsider.covers
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Download album cover images.
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.koharu.cbz
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download each gallery as a single .cbz file.
Disabling this option causes a gallery to be downloaded as individual image files.
extractor.koharu.format
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: ["0", "1600", "1280", "980", "780"]
Description:
Name(s) of the image format to download.
When more than one format is given, the first available one is selected.
Possible formats are
"780", "980", "1280", "1600", "0" (original)
extractor.koharu.tags
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Group tags by type and provide them as tags_<type> metadata fields, for example tags_artist or
tags_character.
extractor.lolisafe.domain
Type: string
Default: null
Description:
Specifies the domain used by a lolisafe extractor regardless of input URL.
Setting this option to "auto" uses the same domain as a given input URL.
extractor.luscious.gif
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Format in which to download animated images.
Use true to download animated images as gifs and false to download as mp4 videos.
extractor.mangadex.api-server
Type: string
Default: "https://api.mangadex.org"
Description:
The server to use for API requests.
extractor.mangadex.api-parameters
Type: object (name -> value)
Example:
{"order[updatedAt]": "desc"}
Description:
Additional query parameters to send when fetching manga chapters.
(See /manga/{id}/feed and /user/follows/manga/feed)
extractor.mangadex.lang
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Example:
* "en"
* "fr,it"
* ["fr", "it"]
Description:
ISO 639-1 language codes to filter chapters by.
extractor.mangadex.ratings
Type: list of strings
Default: ["safe", "suggestive", "erotica", "pornographic"]
Description:
List of acceptable content ratings for returned chapters.
extractor.mangapark.source
Type:
* string
* integer
Example:
* "koala:en"
* 15150116
Description:
Select chapter source and language for a manga.
The general syntax is "<source name>:<ISO 639-1 language code>".
Both are optional, meaning "koala", "koala:", ":en",
or even just ":" are possible as well.
Specifying the numeric ID of a source is also supported.
extractor.[mastodon].access-token
Type: string
Default: null
Description:
The access-token value you get from linking your account to gallery-dl.
Note: gallery-dl comes with built-in tokens for mastodon.social, pawoo and baraag. For other
instances, you need to obtain an access-token in order to use usernames in place of numerical user
IDs.
extractor.[mastodon].cards
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Fetch media from cards.
extractor.[mastodon].reblogs
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Fetch media from reblogged posts.
extractor.[mastodon].replies
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Fetch media from replies to other posts.
extractor.[mastodon].text-posts
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Also emit metadata for text-only posts without media content.
extractor.[misskey].access-token
Type: string
Description:
Your access token, necessary to fetch favorited notes.
extractor.[misskey].renotes
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Fetch media from renoted notes.
extractor.[misskey].replies
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Fetch media from replies to other notes.
extractor.[moebooru].pool.metadata
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Extract extended pool metadata.
Note: Not supported by all moebooru instances.
extractor.newgrounds.flash
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download original Adobe Flash animations instead of pre-rendered videos.
extractor.newgrounds.format
Type:
* string
* list of string
Default: "original"
Example:
* "720p"
* ["mp4", "mov", "1080p", "720p"]
Description:
Selects the preferred format for video downloads.
If the selected format is not available, the next smaller one gets chosen.
If this is a list, try each given filename extension in original resolution or recoded format until
an available format is found.
extractor.newgrounds.include
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "art"
Example:
* "movies,audio"
* ["movies", "audio"]
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile.
Possible values are "art", "audio", "games", "movies".
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
extractor.nijie.include
Type:
* string
* 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", "nuita".
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
extractor.nitter.quoted
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Fetch media from quoted Tweets.
extractor.nitter.retweets
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Fetch media from Retweets.
extractor.nitter.videos
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Description:
Control video download behavior.
* true: Download videos
* "ytdl": Download videos using ytdl
* false: Skip video Tweets
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.host
Type: string
Default: "localhost"
Description:
Host name / IP address to bind to during OAuth authorization.
extractor.oauth.port
Type: integer
Default: 6414
Description:
Port number to listen on during OAuth authorization.
Note: All redirects will go to port 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.paheal.metadata
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Extract additional metadata (source, uploader)
Note: This requires 1 additional HTTP request per post.
extractor.patreon.files
Type: list of strings
Default: ["images", "image_large", "attachments", "postfile", "content"]
Description:
Determines types and order of files to download.
Available types:
* postfile
* images
* image_large
* attachments
* content
extractor.patreon.format-images
Type: string
Default: "download_url"
Description:
Selects the format of images files.
Possible formats:
* download_url ("a":1,"p":1)
* url ("w":620)
* original ("q":100,"webp":0)
* default ("w":620)
* default_small ("w":360)
* default_blurred ("w":620)
* default_blurred_small ("w":360)
* thumbnail ("h":360,"w":360)
* thumbnail_large ("h":1080,"w":1080)
* thumbnail_small ("h":100,"w":100)
extractor.[philomena].api-key
Type: string
Default: null
Description:
Your account's API Key, to use your personal browsing settings and filters.
extractor.[philomena].filter
Type: integer
Default: :derpibooru: 56027 (Everything filter) :ponybooru: 3 (Nah. filter) :otherwise: 2
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.[philomena].svg
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download SVG versions of images when available.
Try to download the view_url version of these posts when this option is disabled.
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.domain
Type: string
Default: "auto"
Description:
Specifies the domain used by pinterest extractors.
Setting this option to "auto" uses the same domain as a given input URL.
extractor.pinterest.sections
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Include pins from board sections.
extractor.pinterest.stories
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Extract files from story pins.
extractor.pinterest.videos
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download from video pins.
extractor.pixeldrain.api-key
Type: string
Description:
Your account's API key
extractor.pixiv.include
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "artworks"
Example:
* "avatar,background,artworks"
* ["avatar", "background", "artworks"]
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile.
Possible values are "artworks", "avatar", "background", "favorite", "novel-user", "novel-bookmark".
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
extractor.pixiv.refresh-token
Type: string
Description:
The refresh-token value you get from running gallery-dl oauth:pixiv (see OAuth_) or by using a third-
party tool like gppt.
extractor.pixiv.novel.covers
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Download cover images.
extractor.pixiv.novel.embeds
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Download embedded images.
extractor.pixiv.novel.full-series
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
When downloading a novel being part of a series, download all novels of that series.
extractor.pixiv.metadata
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Fetch extended user metadata.
extractor.pixiv.metadata-bookmark
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
For works bookmarked by your own account, fetch bookmark tags as tags_bookmark metadata.
Note: This requires 1 additional API request per bookmarked post.
extractor.pixiv.captions
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
For works with seemingly empty caption metadata, try to grab the actual caption value using the AJAX
API.
extractor.pixiv.comments
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Fetch comments metadata.
Note: This requires 1 or more additional API requests per post, depending on the number of comments.
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
* string
Default: true
Description:
Download Pixiv's Ugoira animations.
These animations come as a .zip archive containing all animation frames in JPEG format by default.
Set this option to "original" to download them as individual, higher-quality frames.
Use an ugoira post processor to convert them to watchable animations. (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.pixiv.sanity
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Try to fetch limit_sanity_level works via web API.
extractor.plurk.comments
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Also search Plurk comments for URLs.
extractor.[postmill].save-link-post-body
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Whether or not to save the body for link/image posts.
extractor.reactor.gif
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Format in which to download animated images.
Use true to download animated images as gifs and false to download as mp4 videos.
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.readcomiconline.quality
Type: string
Default: "auto"
Description:
Sets the quality query parameter of issue pages. ("lq" or "hq")
"auto" uses the quality parameter of the input URL or "hq" if not present.
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.
Note: This requires 1 additional API call for every 100 extra comments.
extractor.reddit.embeds
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download embedded comments media.
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.previews
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
For failed downloads from external URLs / child extractors, download Reddit's preview image/video if
available.
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.selftext
Type: bool
Default:
* true if comments are enabled
* false otherwise
Description:
Follow links in the original post's selftext.
extractor.reddit.videos
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Description:
Control video download behavior.
* true: Download videos and use ytdl to handle HLS and DASH manifests
* "ytdl": Download videos and let ytdl handle all of video extraction and download
* "dash": Extract DASH manifest URLs and use ytdl to download and merge them. (*)
* false: Ignore videos
(*) This saves 1 HTTP request per video and might potentially be able to download otherwise deleted
videos, but it will not always get the best video quality available.
extractor.redgifs.format
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: ["hd", "sd", "gif"]
Description:
List of names of the preferred animation format, which can be "hd", "sd", "gif", "thumbnail",
"vthumbnail", or "poster".
If a selected format is not available, the next one in the list will be tried until an available
format is found.
If the format is given as string, it will be extended with ["hd", "sd", "gif"]. Use a list with one
element to restrict it to only one possible format.
extractor.rule34xyz.format
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: ["10", "40", "41", "2"]
Example:
"33,34,4"
Description:
Selects the file format to extract.
When more than one format is given, the first available one is selected.
extractor.sankaku.id-format
Type: string
Default: "numeric"
Description:
Format of id metadata fields.
* "alphanumeric" or "alnum": 11-character alphanumeric IDs (y0abGlDOr2o)
* "numeric" or "legacy": numeric IDs (360451)
extractor.sankaku.refresh
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Refresh download URLs before they expire.
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.skeb.article
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Download article images.
extractor.skeb.sent-requests
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Download sent requests.
extractor.skeb.thumbnails
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Download thumbnails.
extractor.skeb.search.filters
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: ["genre:art", "genre:voice", "genre:novel", "genre:video", "genre:music", "genre:correction"]
Example:
"genre:music OR genre:voice"
Description:
Filters used during searches.
extractor.smugmug.videos
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download video files.
extractor.steamgriddb.animated
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Include animated assets when downloading from a list of assets.
extractor.steamgriddb.epilepsy
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Include assets tagged with epilepsy when downloading from a list of assets.
extractor.steamgriddb.dimensions
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "all"
Examples:
* "1024x512,512x512"
* ["460x215", "920x430"]
Description:
Only include assets that are in the specified dimensions. all can be used to specify all dimensions.
Valid values are:
* Grids: 460x215, 920x430, 600x900, 342x482, 660x930, 512x512, 1024x1024
* Heroes: 1920x620, 3840x1240, 1600x650
* Logos: N/A (will be ignored)
* Icons: 8x8, 10x10, 14x14, 16x16, 20x20, 24x24, 28x28, 32x32, 35x35, 40x40, 48x48, 54x54, 56x56,
57x57, 60x60, 64x64, 72x72, 76x76, 80x80, 90x90, 96x96, 100x100, 114x114, 120x120, 128x128, 144x144,
150x150, 152x152, 160x160, 180x180, 192x192, 194x194, 256x256, 310x310, 512x512, 768x768, 1024x1024
extractor.steamgriddb.file-types
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "all"
Examples:
* "png,jpeg"
* ["jpeg", "webp"]
Description:
Only include assets that are in the specified file types. all can be used to specify all file types.
Valid values are:
* Grids: png, jpeg, jpg, webp
* Heroes: png, jpeg, jpg, webp
* Logos: png, webp
* Icons: png, ico
extractor.steamgriddb.download-fake-png
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download fake PNGs alongside the real file.
extractor.steamgriddb.humor
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Include assets tagged with humor when downloading from a list of assets.
extractor.steamgriddb.languages
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "all"
Examples:
* "en,km"
* ["fr", "it"]
Description:
Only include assets that are in the specified languages. all can be used to specify all languages.
Valid values are ISO 639-1 language codes.
extractor.steamgriddb.nsfw
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Include assets tagged with adult content when downloading from a list of assets.
extractor.steamgriddb.sort
Type: string
Default: score_desc
Description:
Set the chosen sorting method when downloading from a list of assets. Can be one of:
* score_desc (Highest Score (Beta))
* score_asc (Lowest Score (Beta))
* score_old_desc (Highest Score (Old))
* score_old_asc (Lowest Score (Old))
* age_desc (Newest First)
* age_asc (Oldest First)
extractor.steamgriddb.static
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Include static assets when downloading from a list of assets.
extractor.steamgriddb.styles
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: all
Examples:
* white,black
* ["no_logo", "white_logo"]
Description:
Only include assets that are in the specified styles. all can be used to specify all styles. Valid
values are:
* Grids: alternate, blurred, no_logo, material, white_logo
* Heroes: alternate, blurred, material
* Logos: official, white, black, custom
* Icons: official, custom
extractor.steamgriddb.untagged
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Include untagged assets when downloading from a list of assets.
extractor.[szurubooru].username & .token
Type: string
Description:
Username and login token of your account to access private resources.
To generate a token, visit /user/USERNAME/list-tokens and click Create Token.
extractor.tenor.format
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: ["gif", "mp4", "webm", "webp"]
Description:
List of names of the preferred animation format.
If a selected format is not available, the next one in the list will be tried until a format is
found.
Possible formats include
* gif
* gif_transparent
* mediumgif
* gifpreview
* tinygif
* tinygif_transparent
* mp4
* tinymp4
* webm
* webp
* webp_transparent
* tinywebp
* tinywebp_transparent
extractor.tiktok.audio
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Description:
Controls audio download behavior.
* true: Download audio tracks
* "ytdl": Download audio tracks using ytdl
* false: Ignore audio tracks
extractor.tiktok.videos
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download videos using ytdl.
extractor.tiktok.user.avatar
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download user avatars.
extractor.tiktok.user.module
Type: string
Default: null
Description:
Name or filesystem path of the ytdl Python module to extract posts from a tiktok user profile with.
See extractor.ytdl.module.
extractor.tiktok.user.tiktok-range
Type: string
Default: ""
Example:
"1-20"
Description:
Range or playlist indices of tiktok user posts to extract.
See ytdl/playlist_items for details.
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.offset
Type: integer
Default: 0
Description:
Custom offset starting value when paginating over blog posts.
Allows skipping over posts without having to waste API calls.
extractor.tumblr.original
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download full-resolution photo and inline images.
For each photo with "maximum" resolution (width equal to 2048 or height equal to 3072) or each inline
image, use an extra HTTP request to find the URL to its full-resolution version.
extractor.tumblr.pagination
Type: string
Default: "offset"
Description:
Controls how to paginate over blog posts.
* "api": next parameter provided by the API (potentially misses posts due to a bug in Tumblr's API)
* "before": timestamp of last post
* "offset": post offset number
extractor.tumblr.ratelimit
Type: string
Default: "abort"
Description:
Selects how to handle exceeding the daily API rate limit.
* "abort": Raise an error and stop extraction
* "wait": Wait until rate limit reset
extractor.tumblr.reblogs
Type:
* bool
* 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
* list of strings
Default: "all"
Example:
* "video,audio,link"
* ["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.
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all types separately.
extractor.tumblr.fallback-delay
Type: float
Default: 120.0
Description:
Number of seconds to wait between retries for fetching full-resolution images.
extractor.tumblr.fallback-retries
Type: integer
Default: 2
Description:
Number of retries for fetching full-resolution images or -1 for infinite retries.
extractor.twibooru.api-key
Type: string
Default: null
Description:
Your Twibooru API Key, to use your account's browsing settings and filters.
extractor.twibooru.filter
Type: integer
Default: 2 (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.twibooru.svg
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download SVG versions of images when available.
Try to download the view_url version of these posts when this option is disabled.
extractor.twitter.ads
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Fetch media from promoted Tweets.
extractor.twitter.cards
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: false
Description:
Controls how to handle Twitter Cards.
* false: Ignore cards
* true: Download image content from supported cards
* "ytdl": Additionally download video content from unsupported cards using ytdl
extractor.twitter.cards-blacklist
Type: list of strings
Example:
["summary", "youtube.com", "player:twitch.tv"]
Description:
List of card types to ignore.
Possible values are
* card names
* card domains
* <card name>:<card domain>
extractor.twitter.conversations
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: false
Description:
For input URLs pointing to a single Tweet, e.g. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/<TweetID>, fetch
media from all Tweets and replies in this conversation <https://help.twitter.com/en/using-
twitter/twitter-conversations>.
If this option is equal to "accessible", only download from conversation Tweets if the given initial
Tweet is accessible.
extractor.twitter.csrf
Type: string
Default: "cookies"
Description:
Controls how to handle Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) tokens.
* "auto": Always auto-generate a token.
* "cookies": Use token given by the ct0 cookie if present.
extractor.twitter.cursor
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Example:
"1/DAABCgABGVKi5lE___oKAAIYbfYNcxrQLggAAwAAAAIAAA"
Description:
Controls from which position to start the extraction process from.
* true: Start from the beginning. Log the most recent cursor value when interrupted before reaching
the end.
* false: Start from the beginning.
* any string: Start from the position defined by this value.
Note: A cursor value from one timeline cannot be used with another.
extractor.twitter.expand
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
For each Tweet, return *all* Tweets from that initial Tweet's conversation or thread, i.e. *expand*
all Twitter threads.
Going through a timeline with this option enabled is essentially the same as running gallery-dl
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/<TweetID> with enabled conversations option for each Tweet in said
timeline.
Note: This requires at least 1 additional API call per initial Tweet.
extractor.twitter.unavailable
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Try to download media marked as Unavailable, e.g. Geoblocked videos.
extractor.twitter.include
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "timeline"
Example:
* "avatar,background,media"
* ["avatar", "background", "media"]
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile.
Possible values are "info", "avatar", "background", "timeline", "tweets", "media", "replies",
"likes".
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
extractor.twitter.transform
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Transform Tweet and User metadata into a simpler, uniform format.
extractor.twitter.tweet-endpoint
Type: string
Default: "auto"
Description:
Selects the API endpoint used to retrieve single Tweets.
* "restid": /TweetResultByRestId - accessible to guest users
* "detail": /TweetDetail - more stable
* "auto": "detail" when logged in, "restid" otherwise
extractor.twitter.size
Type: list of strings
Default: ["orig", "4096x4096", "large", "medium", "small"]
Description:
The image version to download. Any entries after the first one will be used for potential fallback
URLs.
Known available sizes are
* orig
* large
* medium
* small
* 4096x4096
* 900x900
* 360x360
extractor.twitter.logout
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Logout and retry as guest when access to another user's Tweets is blocked.
extractor.twitter.pinned
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Fetch media from pinned Tweets.
extractor.twitter.quoted
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Fetch media from quoted Tweets.
If this option is enabled, gallery-dl will try to fetch a quoted (original) Tweet when it sees the
Tweet which quotes it.
extractor.twitter.ratelimit
Type: string
Default: "wait"
Description:
Selects how to handle exceeding the API rate limit.
* "abort": Raise an error and stop extraction
* "wait": Wait until rate limit reset
* "wait:N": Wait for N seconds
extractor.twitter.relogin
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
When receiving a "Could not authenticate you" error while logged in with username & password, refresh
the current login session and try to continue from where it left off.
extractor.twitter.locked
Type: string
Default: "abort"
Description:
Selects how to handle "account is temporarily locked" errors.
* "abort": Raise an error and stop extraction
* "wait": Wait until the account is unlocked and retry
extractor.twitter.replies
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Fetch media from replies to other Tweets.
If this value is "self", only consider replies where reply and original Tweet are from the same user.
Note: Twitter will automatically expand conversations if you use the /with_replies timeline while
logged in. For example, media from Tweets which the user replied to will also be downloaded.
It is possible to exclude unwanted Tweets using image-filter <extractor.*.image-filter_>.
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.timeline.strategy
Type: string
Default: "auto"
Description:
Controls the strategy / tweet source used for timeline URLs (https://twitter.com/USER/timeline).
* "tweets": /tweets timeline + search
* "media": /media timeline + search
* "with_replies": /with_replies timeline + search
* "auto": "tweets" or "media", depending on retweets and text-tweets settings
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.unique
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Ignore previously seen Tweets.
extractor.twitter.username-alt
Type: string
Description:
Alternate Identifier (username, email, phone number) when logging in.
When not specified and asked for by Twitter, this identifier will need to entered in an interactive
prompt.
extractor.twitter.users
Type: string
Default: "user"
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:
* "user": https://twitter.com/i/user/{rest_id}
* "timeline": https://twitter.com/id:{rest_id}/timeline
* "tweets": https://twitter.com/id:{rest_id}/tweets
* "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
* string
Default: true
Description:
Control video download behavior.
* true: Download videos
* "ytdl": Download videos using ytdl
* 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.vipergirls.domain
Type: string
Default: "viper.click"
Description:
Specifies the domain used by vipergirls extractors.
For example "viper.click" if the main domain is blocked or to bypass Cloudflare,
extractor.vipergirls.like
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Automatically like posts after downloading their images.
Note: Requires login or cookies
extractor.vk.offset
Type: integer
Default: 0
Description:
Custom offset starting value when paginating over image results.
extractor.vsco.include
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "gallery"
Example:
* "avatar,collection"
* ["avatar", "collection"]
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile.
Possible values are "avatar", "gallery", "spaces", "collection",
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
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.wallhaven.include
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "uploads"
Example:
* "uploads,collections"
* ["uploads", "collections"]
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile.
Possible values are "uploads", "collections".
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
extractor.wallhaven.metadata
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Extract additional metadata (tags, uploader)
Note: This requires 1 additional HTTP request per post.
extractor.weasyl.api-key
Type: string
Default: null
Description:
Your Weasyl API Key, to use your account's browsing settings and filters.
extractor.weasyl.metadata
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Fetch extra submission metadata during gallery downloads.
(comments, description, favorites, folder_name,
tags, views)
Note: This requires 1 additional HTTP request per submission.
extractor.weibo.gifs
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Description:
Download gif files.
Set this to "video" to download GIFs as video files.
extractor.weibo.include
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "feed"
Description:
A (comma-separated) list of subcategories to include when processing a user profile.
Possible values are "home", "feed", "videos", "newvideo", "article", "album".
It is possible to use "all" instead of listing all values separately.
extractor.weibo.livephoto
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Download livephoto files.
extractor.weibo.movies
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Download movie videos.
extractor.weibo.retweets
Type: bool
Default: false
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.wikimedia.limit
Type: integer
Default: 50
Description:
Number of results to return in a single API query.
The value must be between 10 and 500.
extractor.wikimedia.subcategories
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
For Category: pages, recursively descent into subcategories.
extractor.ytdl.cmdline-args
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Example:
* "--quiet --write-sub --merge-output-format mkv"
* ["--quiet", "--write-sub", "--merge-output-format", "mkv"]
Description:
Additional ytdl options specified as command-line arguments.
See yt-dlp options / youtube-dl options
extractor.ytdl.config-file
Type: Path
Example:
"~/.config/yt-dlp/config"
Description:
Location of a ytdl configuration file to load options from.
extractor.ytdl.enabled
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Process URLs otherwise unsupported by gallery-dl with ytdl.
extractor.ytdl.format
Type: string
Default: Default of the ytdl module used.
("bestvideo*+bestaudio/best" for yt_dlp,
"bestvideo+bestaudio/best" for youtube_dl)
Description:
ytdl format selection string.
See yt-dlp format selection / youtube-dl format selection
extractor.ytdl.generic
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Description:
Enables the use of ytdl's generic extractor.
Set this option to "force" for the same effect as --force-generic-extractor.
extractor.ytdl.logging
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Route ytdl's output through gallery-dl's logging system. Otherwise it will be written directly to
stdout/stderr.
Note: Set quiet and no_warnings in extractor.ytdl.raw-options to true to suppress all output.
extractor.ytdl.module
Type:
* string
* Path
Default: null
Example:
* "yt-dlp"
* "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/youtube_dl"
Description:
Name or filesystem path of the ytdl Python module to import.
Setting this to null will try to import "yt_dlp" followed by "youtube_dl" as fallback.
extractor.ytdl.raw-options
Type: object (name -> value)
Example:
{ "quiet": true, "writesubtitles": true, "merge_output_format": "mkv" }
Description:
Additional options passed directly to the YoutubeDL constructor.
Available options can be found in yt-dlp's docstrings / youtube-dl's docstrings
extractor.zerochan.extensions
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: ["jpg", "png", "webp", "gif"]
Example:
* "gif"
* ["webp", "gif", "jpg"}
Description:
List of filename extensions to try when dynamically building download URLs ("pagination": "api" +
"metadata": false)
extractor.zerochan.metadata
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Extract additional metadata (date, md5, tags, ...)
Note: This requires 1-2 additional HTTP requests per post.
extractor.zerochan.pagination
Type: string
Default: "api"
Description:
Controls how to paginate over tag search results.
* "api": Use the JSON API (no extension metadata)
* "html": Parse HTML pages (limited to 100 pages * 24 posts)
extractor.zerochan.redirects
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Automatically follow tag redirects.
extractor.[booru].tags
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Group tags by type and provide them as tags_<type> metadata fields, for example tags_artist or
tags_character.
Note: This requires 1 additional HTTP request per post.
extractor.[booru].notes
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Extract overlay notes (position and text).
Note: This requires 1 additional HTTP request per post.
extractor.[booru].url
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "file_url"
Example:
* "preview_url"
* ["sample_url", "preview_url", "file_url"]
Description:
Alternate field name to retrieve download URLs from.
When multiple names are given, download the first available one.
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
extractor.[manga-extractor].page-reverse
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Download manga chapter pages in reverse order.
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.*.progress
Type: float
Default: 3.0
Description:
Number of seconds until a download progress indicator for the current download is displayed.
Set this option to null to disable this indicator.
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
Default: extractor.*.timeout
Description:
Connection timeout during file downloads.
downloader.*.verify
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: extractor.*.verify
Description:
Certificate validation during file downloads.
downloader.*.proxy
Type:
* string
* object (scheme -> proxy)
Default: extractor.*.proxy
Description:
Proxy server used for file downloads.
Disable the use of a proxy for file downloads by explicitly setting this option to null.
downloader.http.adjust-extensions
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Check file headers of downloaded files and adjust their filename extensions if they do not match.
For example, this will change the filename extension ({extension}) of a file called example.png from
png to jpg when said file contains JPEG/JFIF data.
downloader.http.consume-content
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Controls the behavior when an HTTP response is considered unsuccessful
If the value is true, consume the response body. This avoids closing the connection and therefore
improves connection reuse.
If the value is false, immediately close the connection without reading the response. This can be
useful if the server is known to send large bodies for error responses.
downloader.http.chunk-size
Type:
* integer
* string
Default: 32768
Example:
"50k", "0.8M"
Description:
Number of bytes per downloaded chunk.
Possible values are integer numbers optionally followed by one of k, m. g, t, or p. These suffixes
are case-insensitive.
downloader.http.headers
Type: object (name -> value)
Example:
{"Accept": "image/webp,*/*", "Referer": "https://example.org/"}
Description:
Additional HTTP headers to send when downloading files,
downloader.http.retry-codes
Type: list of integers
Default: extractor.*.retry-codes
Description:
Additional HTTP response status codes to retry a download on.
Codes 200, 206, and 416 (when resuming a partial download) will never be retried and always count as
success, regardless of this option.
5xx codes (server error responses) will always be retried, regardless of this option.
downloader.http.sleep-429
Type: Duration
Default: extractor.*.sleep-429
Description:
Number of seconds to sleep when receiving a 429 Too Many Requests response before retrying the
request.
Note: Requires retry-codes to include 429.
downloader.http.validate
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Check for invalid responses.
Fail a download when a file does not pass instead of downloading a potentially broken file.
downloader.ytdl.cmdline-args
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Example:
* "--quiet --write-sub --merge-output-format mkv"
* ["--quiet", "--write-sub", "--merge-output-format", "mkv"]
Description:
Additional ytdl options specified as command-line arguments.
See yt-dlp options / youtube-dl options
downloader.ytdl.config-file
Type: Path
Example:
"~/.config/yt-dlp/config"
Description:
Location of a ytdl configuration file to load options from.
downloader.ytdl.format
Type: string
Default: Default of the ytdl module used.
("bestvideo*+bestaudio/best" for yt_dlp,
"bestvideo+bestaudio/best" for youtube_dl)
Description:
ytdl format selection string.
See yt-dlp format selection / youtube-dl format selection
downloader.ytdl.forward-cookies
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Forward gallery-dl's cookies to ytdl.
downloader.ytdl.logging
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Route ytdl's output through gallery-dl's logging system. Otherwise it will be written 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
* Path
Default: null
Example:
* "yt-dlp"
* "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/youtube_dl"
Description:
Name or filesystem path of the ytdl Python module to import.
Setting this to null will try to import "yt_dlp" followed by "youtube_dl" as fallback.
downloader.ytdl.outtmpl
Type: string
Default: null
Description:
The Output Template used to generate filenames for files downloaded with ytdl.
See yt-dlp output template / youtube-dl output template.
Special values:
* null: generate filenames with extractor.*.filename
* "default": use ytdl's default, currently "%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s" for yt-dlp /
"%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" for youtube-dl
Note: An output template other than null might cause unexpected results in combination with certain
options (e.g. "skip": "enumerate")
downloader.ytdl.raw-options
Type: object (name -> value)
Example:
{ "quiet": true, "writesubtitles": true, "merge_output_format": "mkv" }
Description:
Additional options passed directly to the YoutubeDL constructor.
Available options can be found in yt-dlp's docstrings / youtube-dl's docstrings
OUTPUT OPTIONS
output.mode
Type:
* string
* object (key -> format 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": "terminal" on Windows with output.ansi disabled, "color" otherwise.
It is possible to use custom output format strings
by setting this option to an object and specifying start, success, skip, progress, and progress-
total.
For example, the following will replicate the same output as mode: color:
{ "start" : "{}", "success": "\r\u001b[1;32m{}\u001b[0m\n", "skip" : "\u001b[2m{}\u001b[0m\n",
"progress" : "\r{0:>7}B {1:>7}B/s ", "progress-total": "\r{3:>3}% {0:>7}B {1:>7}B/s " }
start, success, and skip are used to output the current filename, where {} or {0} is replaced with
said filename. If a given format string contains printable characters other than that, their number
needs to be specified as [<number>, <format string>] to get the correct results for output.shorten.
For example
"start" : [12, "Downloading {}"]
progress and progress-total are used when displaying the
download progress indicator, progress when the total number of bytes to download is unknown,
progress-total otherwise.
For these format strings
* {0} is number of bytes downloaded
* {1} is number of downloaded bytes per second
* {2} is total number of bytes
* {3} is percent of bytes downloaded to total bytes
output.stdout & .stdin & .stderr
Type:
* string
* object
Example:
"utf-8"
{ "encoding": "utf-8", "errors": "replace", "line_buffering": true }
Description:
Reconfigure a standard stream.
Possible options are
* encoding
* errors
* newline
* line_buffering
* write_through
When this option is specified as a simple string, it is interpreted as {"encoding": "<string-value>",
"errors": "replace"}
Note: errors always defaults to "replace"
output.shorten
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Controls whether the output strings should be shortened to fit on one console line.
Set this option to "eaw" to also work with east-asian characters with a display width greater than 1.
output.colors
Type: object (key -> ANSI color)
Default:
{ "success": "1;32", "skip" : "2", "debug" : "0;37", "info" : "1;37", "warning": "1;33",
"error" : "1;31" }
Description:
Controls the ANSI colors used for various outputs.
Output for mode: color
* success: successfully downloaded files
* skip: skipped files
Logging Messages:
* debug: debug logging messages
* info: info logging messages
* warning: warning logging messages
* error: error logging messages
output.ansi
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
On Windows, enable ANSI escape sequences and colored output
by setting the ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING flag for stdout and stderr.
output.skip
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Show skipped file downloads.
output.fallback
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Include fallback URLs in the output of -g/--get-urls.
output.private
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Include private fields, i.e. fields whose name starts with an underscore, in the output of -K/--list-
keywords and -j/--dump-json.
output.progress
Type:
* bool
* 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
* Logging Configuration
Default: "[{name}][{levelname}] {message}"
Description:
Configuration for logging output to stderr.
If this is a simple string, it specifies the format string for logging messages.
output.logfile
Type:
* Path
* Logging Configuration
Description:
File to write logging output to.
output.unsupportedfile
Type:
* Path
* Logging Configuration
Description:
File to write external URLs unsupported by *gallery-dl* to.
The default format string here is "{message}".
output.errorfile
Type:
* Path
* Logging Configuration
Description:
File to write input URLs which returned an error to.
The default format string here is also "{message}".
When combined with -I/--input-file-comment or -x/--input-file-delete, this option will cause *all*
input URLs from these files to be commented/deleted after processing them and not just successful
ones.
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 (directory -> extensions)
Default:
{ "Pictures" : ["jpg", "jpeg", "png", "gif", "bmp", "svg", "webp", "avif", "heic", "heif",
"ico", "psd"], "Video" : ["flv", "ogv", "avi", "mp4", "mpg", "mpeg", "3gp", "mkv", "webm",
"vob", "wmv", "m4v", "mov"], "Music" : ["mp3", "aac", "flac", "ogg", "wma", "m4a", "wav"],
"Archives" : ["zip", "rar", "7z", "tar", "gz", "bz2"], "Documents": ["txt", "pdf"] }
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.equal
Type: string
Default: "null"
Description:
The action to take when files do compare as equal.
* "abort:N": Stop the current extractor run after N consecutive files compared as equal.
* "terminate:N": Stop the current extractor run, including parent extractors, after N consecutive
files compared as equal.
* "exit:N": Exit the program after N consecutive files compared as equal.
compare.shallow
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Only compare file sizes. Do not read and compare their content.
exec.archive
Type:
* string
* Path
Description:
Database to store IDs of executed commands in, similar to extractor.*.archive.
The following archive options are also supported:
* archive-format
* archive-prefix
* archive-pragma
* archive-table
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
* 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
* list of strings
Default: "after"
Description:
The event(s) for which exec.command is run.
See metadata.event for a list of available events.
hash.chunk-size
Type: integer
Default: 32768
Description:
Number of bytes read per chunk during file hash computation.
hash.event
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "file"
Description:
The event(s) for which file hashes are computed.
See metadata.event for a list of available events.
hash.filename
Type:
* bool
Default: false
Description:
Rebuild filenames after computing hash digests and adding them to the metadata dict.
hash.hashes
Type:
* string
* object (field name -> hash algorithm)
Default: "md5,sha1"
Example:
"sha256:hash_sha,sha3_512:hash_sha3"
{ "hash_sha" : "sha256", "hash_sha3": "sha3_512" }
Description:
Hash digests to compute.
For a list of available hash algorithms, run
python -c "import hashlib; print('\n'.join(hashlib.algorithms_available))"
or see python/hashlib.
* If this is a string, it is parsed as a a comma-separated list of algorthm-fieldname pairs:
[<hash algorithm> ":"] <field name> ["," ...]
When <hash algorithm> is omitted, <field name> is used as algorithm name.
* If this is an object, it is a <field name> to <algorithm name> mapping for hash digests to compute.
metadata.mode
Type: string
Default: "json"
Description:
Selects how to process metadata.
* "json": write metadata using json.dump()
* "jsonl": write metadata in JSON Lines <https://jsonlines.org/> format
* "tags": write tags separated by newlines
* "custom": write the result of applying metadata.content-format to a file's metadata dictionary
* "modify": add or modify metadata entries
* "delete": remove metadata entries
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)
Using "-" as filename will write all output to stdout.
If this option is set, metadata.extension and metadata.extension-format will be ignored.
metadata.directory
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "."
Example:
* "metadata"
* ["..", "metadata", "\fF {id // 500 * 500}"]
Description:
Directory where metadata files are stored in relative to metadata.base-directory.
metadata.base-directory
Type:
* bool
* Path
Default: false
Description:
Selects the relative location for metadata files.
* false: current target location for file downloads (base-directory + directory_)
* true: current base-directory location
* any Path: custom location
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
* list of strings
Default: "file"
Example:
* "prepare,file,after"
* ["prepare-after", "skip"]
Description:
The event(s) for which metadata gets written to a file.
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 finalize-success On extractor shutdown when no error
occurred finalize-error On extractor shutdown when at least one error occurred prepare Before a file
download prepare-after Before a file download, but after building and checking file paths 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 error After a file download failed
post When starting to download all files of a post, e.g. a Tweet on Twitter or a post on Patreon.
post-after After downloading all files of a post
metadata.include
Type: list of strings
Example:
["id", "width", "height", "description"]
Description:
Include only the given top-level keys when writing JSON data.
Note: Missing or undefined fields will be silently ignored.
metadata.exclude
Type: list of strings
Example:
["blocked", "watching", "status"]
Description:
Exclude all given keys from written JSON data.
Note: Cannot be used with metadata.include.
metadata.fields
Type:
* list of strings
* object (field name -> format string)
Example:
["blocked", "watching", "status[creator][name]"]
{ "blocked" : "***", "watching" : "\fE 'yes' if watching else 'no'",
"status[username]": "{status[creator][name]!l}" }
Description:
* "mode": "delete": A list of metadata field names to remove.
* "mode": "modify": An object with metadata field names mapping to a format string whose result is
assigned to said field name.
metadata.content-format
Type:
* string
* 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".
metadata.ascii
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Escape all non-ASCII characters.
See the ensure_ascii argument of json.dump() for further details.
Note: Only applies for "mode": "json" and "jsonl".
metadata.indent
Type:
* integer
* string
Default: 4
Description:
Indentation level of JSON output.
See the indent argument of json.dump() for further details.
Note: Only applies for "mode": "json".
metadata.separators
Type: list with two string elements
Default: [", ", ": "]
Description:
<item separator> - <key separator> pair to separate JSON keys and values with.
See the separators argument of json.dump() for further details.
Note: Only applies for "mode": "json" and "jsonl".
metadata.sort
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Sort output by key.
See the sort_keys argument of json.dump() for further details.
Note: Only applies for "mode": "json" and "jsonl".
metadata.open
Type: string
Defsult:
"w"
Description:
The mode in which metadata files get opened.
For example, use "a" to append to a file's content or "w" to truncate it.
See the mode argument of open() for further details.
metadata.encoding
Type: string
Defsult:
"utf-8"
Description:
Name of the encoding used to encode a file's content.
See the encoding argument of open() for further details.
metadata.private
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Include private fields, i.e. fields whose name starts with an underscore.
metadata.skip
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Do not overwrite already existing files.
metadata.archive
Type:
* string
* Path
Description:
Database to store IDs of generated metadata files in, similar to extractor.*.archive.
The following archive options are also supported:
* archive-format
* archive-prefix
* archive-pragma
* archive-table
metadata.mtime
Type: bool
Default: false
Description:
Set modification times of generated metadata files according to the accompanying downloaded file.
Enabling this option will only have an effect *if* there is actual mtime metadata available, that is
* after a file download ("event": "file" (default), "event": "after")
* when running *after* an mtime post processes for the same event
For example, a metadata post processor for "event": "post" will *not* be able to set its file's
modification time unless an mtime post processor with "event": "post" runs *before* it.
mtime.event
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "file"
Description:
The event(s) for which mtime.key or mtime.value get evaluated.
See metadata.event for a list of available events.
mtime.key
Type: string
Default: "date"
Description:
Name of the metadata field whose value should be used.
This value must be either a UNIX timestamp or a datetime object.
Note: This option gets ignored if mtime.value is set.
mtime.value
Type: string
Default: null
Example:
* "{status[date]}"
* "{content[0:6]:R22/2022/D%Y%m%d/}"
Description:
A format string whose value should be used.
The resulting value must be either a UNIX timestamp or a datetime object.
python.archive
Type:
* string
* Path
Description:
Database to store IDs of called Python functions in, similar to extractor.*.archive.
The following archive options are also supported:
* archive-format
* archive-prefix
* archive-pragma
* archive-table
python.event
Type:
* string
* list of strings
Default: "file"
Description:
The event(s) for which python.function gets called.
See metadata.event for a list of available events.
python.function
Type: string
Example:
* "my_module:generate_text"
* "~/.local/share/gdl-utils.py:resize"
Description:
The Python function to call.
This function is specified as <module>:<function name> and gets called with the current metadata dict
as argument.
module is either an importable Python module name or the Path to a .py file,
rename.from
Type: string
Description:
The format string for filenames to rename.
When no value is given, extractor.*.filename is used.
rename.to
Type: string
Description:
The format string for target filenames.
When no value is given, extractor.*.filename is used.
rename.skip
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Do not rename a file when another file with the target name already exists.
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: auto
Description:
ffmpeg demuxer to read and process input files with.
Possible values are
* "concat" (inaccurate frame timecodes for non-uniform frame delays)
* "image2" (accurate timecodes, requires nanosecond file timestamps, i.e. no Windows or macOS)
* "mkvmerge" (accurate timecodes, only WebM or MKV, requires mkvmerge)
* "archive" (store "original" frames in a .zip archive)
"auto" will select mkvmerge if available and fall back to concat otherwise.
ugoira.ffmpeg-location
Type: Path
Default: "ffmpeg"
Description:
Location of the ffmpeg (or avconv) executable to use.
ugoira.mkvmerge-location
Type: Path
Default: "mkvmerge"
Description:
Location of the mkvmerge executable for use with the mkvmerge demuxer.
ugoira.ffmpeg-output
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: "error"
Description:
Controls ffmpeg output.
* true: Enable ffmpeg output
* false: Disable all ffmpeg output
* any string: Pass -hide_banner and -loglevel with this value as argument to ffmpeg
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.
* "uniform": Like auto, but assign an explicit frame rate only to Ugoira with uniform frame delays.
* 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.metadata
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Description:
When using "mode": "archive", save Ugoira frame delay data as animation.json within the archive file.
If this is a string, use it as alternate filename for frame delay files.
ugoira.mtime
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Set modification times of generated ugoira aniomations.
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.
ugoira.skip
Type: bool
Default: true
Description:
Do not convert frames if target file already exists.
zip.compression
Type: string
Default: "store"
Description:
Compression method to use when writing the archive.
Possible values are "store", "zip", "bzip2", "lzma".
zip.extension
Type: string
Default: "zip"
Description:
Filename extension for the created ZIP archive.
zip.files
Type: list of Path
Example:
["info.json"]
Description:
List of extra files to be added to a ZIP archive.
Note: Relative paths are relative to the current download directory.
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:
List of internal modules to load when searching for a suitable extractor class. Useful to reduce
startup time and memory usage.
extractor.module-sources
Type: list of Path instances
Example:
["~/.config/gallery-dl/modules", null]
Description:
List of directories to load external extractor modules from.
Any file in a specified directory with a .py filename extension gets imported and searched for
potential extractors, i.e. classes with a pattern attribute.
Note: null references internal extractors defined in extractor/__init__.py or by extractor.modules.
globals
Type:
* Path
* string
Example:
* "~/.local/share/gdl-globals.py"
* "gdl-globals"
Description:
Path to or name of an
importable Python module, whose namespace,
in addition to the GLOBALS dict in util.py, gets used as globals parameter for compiled Python
expressions.
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.
filters-environment
Type:
* bool
* string
Default: true
Description:
Evaluate filter expressions in a special environment preventing them from raising fatal exceptions.
true or "tryexcept": Wrap expressions in a try/except block; Evaluate expressions raising an
exception as false false or "raw": Do not wrap expressions in a special environment "defaultdict":
Prevent exceptions when accessing undefined variables by using a defaultdict
format-separator
Type: string
Default: "/"
Description:
Character(s) used as argument separator in format string format specifiers.
For example, setting this option to "#" would allow a replacement operation to be Rold#new# instead
of the default Rold/new/
input-files
Type: list of Path
Example:
["~/urls.txt", "$HOME/input"]
Description:
Additional input files.
signals-ignore
Type: list of strings
Example:
["SIGTTOU", "SIGTTIN", "SIGTERM"]
Description:
The list of signal names to ignore, i.e. set SIG_IGN as signal handler for.
subconfigs
Type: list of Path
Example:
["~/cfg-twitter.json", "~/cfg-reddit.json"]
Description:
Additional configuration files to load.
warnings
Type: string
Default: "default"
Description:
The Warnings Filter action used for (urllib3) warnings.
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
deviantart)
* 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 as "api-key" and "api-secret"
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 a name
* select "installed app"
* set http://localhost:6414/ as "redirect uri"
* solve the "I'm not a robot" reCAPTCHA if needed
* click "create app"
* copy the client id (third line, under your application's name and "installed app") and put it in
your configuration file as "client-id"
* 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)
* clear your cache to delete any remaining access-token entries. (gallery-dl --clear-cache reddit)
* get a refresh-token for the new client-id (gallery-dl oauth:reddit)
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 as "api-key" and "api-secret"
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 as "api-key"
and "api-secret"
CUSTOM TYPES
Date
Type:
* string
* 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.
Duration
Type:
* float
* list with 2 floats
* string
Example:
* 2.85
* [1.5, 3.0]
* "2.85", "1.5-3.0"
Description:
A Duration represents a span of time in seconds.
* If given as a single float, it will be used as that exact value.
* If given as a list with 2 floating-point numbers a & b , it will be randomly chosen with uniform
distribution such that a <= N <= b. (see random.uniform())
* If given as a string, it can either represent a single float value ("2.85") or a range
("1.5-3.0").
Path
Type:
* string
* 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 an object 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 hash Compute file hash digests metadata Write metadata to separate
files mtime Set file modification time according to its metadata python Call Python functions rename
Rename previously downloaded files 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)
1.29.3 2025-03-29 GALLERY-DL.CONF(5)