[REQUEST] Using Github Actions to compile gallery-dl upon commit

[God-damnit-all]

The cloudflare issue is still at large, and I've been having an issue very unique to my setup in which anti-cheat does not like repeated python executions in the background, but it doesn't seem to mind the gallery-dl executable.

There's not really a guide on compiling gallery-dl to an executable posted, but rather than ask for that, I think it'd be simpler in the long run just to have Github compile it every time there's a new commit. Would you be willing?

[Hrxn]

I don't really understand what you are trying to say here, to be honest. Anti-cheat? In the background?

If you are concerned about false positives, you should probably avoid the bundled executable and simply install Python instead on your system to run gallery-dl. I've never heard about any issues if you do it that way, I think.

[God-damnit-all]

I don't really understand what you are trying to say here, to be honest. Anti-cheat? In the background?

If you are concerned about false positives, you should probably avoid the bundled executable and simply install Python instead on your system to run gallery-dl. I've never heard about any issues if you do it that way, I think.

I'm having the opposite problems where it doesn't like python but doesn't mind the bundled executable.

[rautamiekka]

I don't really understand what you are trying to say here, to be honest. Anti-cheat? In the background?
If you are concerned about false positives, you should probably avoid the bundled executable and simply install Python instead on your system to run gallery-dl. I've never heard about any issues if you do it that way, I think.

I'm having the opposite problems where it doesn't like python but doesn't mind the bundled executable.

Give the commands used and the resulting outputs/logs.

[God-damnit-all]

I don't really understand what you are trying to say here, to be honest. Anti-cheat? In the background?
If you are concerned about false positives, you should probably avoid the bundled executable and simply install Python instead on your system to run gallery-dl. I've never heard about any issues if you do it that way, I think.

I'm having the opposite problems where it doesn't like python but doesn't mind the bundled executable.

Give the commands used and the resulting outputs/logs.

It's a bluescreen. Happens consistently but at somewhat random, generally about half an hour to an hour of scraping twitter.

There's not much that can be done about it, really.

[Hrxn]

A real bluescreen?

Then it's very likely some deeper issue with your system, normal userspace programs cannot cause this in usual circumstances.

[God-damnit-all]

A real bluescreen?

Then it's very likely some deeper issue with your system, normal userspace programs cannot cause this in usual circumstances.

Ring-0 anti-cheat programs do some unpredictable things.

[Hrxn]

I'm aware, so you should better explain why this is an issue with gallery-dl

[God-damnit-all]

I'm aware, so you should better explain why this is an issue with gallery-dl

It's not. It's just one of the reasons why I would like this feature. I did not submit this as a bug.

[God-damnit-all]

I'm just going to close this and resubmit the request at a later date without mentioning the anti-cheat problems I've been having.

[mikf]

So I tried something and it actually seems to work:
https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/actions/runs/575031865#artifacts

The Windows executable has actually less positives on VirusTotal than my own builds:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e728f79d112e9d4ecd40ff2475185fb17b2f51cf96a08edfff047f48a9fad139/detection

There's not really a guide on compiling gallery-dl to an executable posted

• set up and activate a virtualenv
• pip install requests urllib3==1.25.11 youtube-dl pyinstaller
• run ./scripts/pyinstaller.py

[Hrxn]

Less false positives? I wonder how, honestly.