Any way to download twitter media or likes into one separate folder within the artist folder?

[ZenythFactor]

As I downloaded all the likes of said artist's twitter, i begun to notice they're downloaded in the same twitter directory folder instead of just the artist's folder and in a separate folder for likes, not generally.
Is there a possible way of doing that? Because I'd hate to go back to using Twitter Media Downloader to do separate downloads again ugh.

[Fukitsu]

You can do something like
"twitter": { "likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{user[name]}", "Likes"] } }

[ZenythFactor]

You can do something like
"twitter": { "likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{user[name]}", "Likes"] } }

Neat
Do i put this as a command or a configuration file?

[Fukitsu]

In the config file

[ZenythFactor]

In the config file

Thanks, i'll test this out and come back.

[mikf]

#1421 (comment) is how it should work, but {user[name]} refers to the Tweet owner and not the user whose likes are being downloaded.

fd858ee adds a user_likes field which at least contains the screen_name of the right user, so this would be
"twitter": { "likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{user_likes}", "Likes"] } }

[ZenythFactor]

#1421 (comment) is how it should work, but {user[name]} refers to the Tweet owner and not the user whose likes are being downloaded.

fd858ee adds a user_likes field which at least contains the screen_name of the right user, so this would be
"twitter": { "likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{user_likes}", "Likes"] } }

I see then.
It's getting a bit complicated for me, so I apologize.
Where exactly I should put the string at in the .conf file?

[Fukitsu]

You put it in the configuration file just like that. For example:
{ "extractor"" { "twitter": { "likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{user_likes}", "Likes"] } } } }

[ZenythFactor]

You put it in the configuration file just like that. For example:
{ "extractor"" { "twitter": { "likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{user_likes}", "Likes"] } } } }

So just paste it in there at the bottom or top?
I apologize again. Very novice when it comes to stuff like this.

[mikf]

Given the default config file, go to the twitter block and paste "likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{user_likes}", "Likes"] } in there:

        "twitter":
        {
            "likes": {
                "directory": ["Twitter", "{user_likes}", "Likes"]
            },
            
            "username": null,
            "password": null,
            "cards": false,
            "conversations": false,
            "quoted": true,
            "replies": true,
            "retweets": true,
            "twitpic": false,
            "users": "timeline",
            "videos": true
        },

[ZenythFactor]

Given the default config file, go to the twitter block and paste "likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{user_likes}", "Likes"] } in there:

        "twitter":
        {
            "likes": {
                "directory": ["Twitter", "{user_likes}", "Likes"]
            },
            
            "username": null,
            "password": null,
            "cards": false,
            "conversations": false,
            "quoted": true,
            "replies": true,
            "retweets": true,
            "twitpic": false,
            "users": "timeline",
            "videos": true
        },

Alright, I did exactly what you shown and, as i feated, the likes are still not going to their respective singular folder.
Like, I desire to have all the downloaded like content into one single folder. Basically folder that is filled with all of the other folders filled with liked content.

Something like this, but the director is basically: "gallery-ld/twitter/[artist] likes". Basically just have the twitter folder not be mixed up with other profile folders that were just for the account's likes.

[mikf]

then use "directory": ["twitter", "{user_likes} likes"] or something alike

[nisehime]

@mikf maybe it would be better if you add the third array, similar to user[] and author[], which contains metadata about the user, specified in the url. In case of direct tweet url it should be the author of this tweet, currently if you have conversations: true, you're also unable to save media from replies to a tweet to this tweet author's folder.

[Hrxn]

I think this issue can be closed, btw.

[ZenythFactor]

I think this issue can be closed, btw.

Not yet
I admittedly forgotten to try any of the suggestions here.

If nothing resolves, i'll close it.

[Hrxn]

Should definitely be doable with conditional directory settings like here

[mikf]

With 749802c and related commits, user is now always the user an input URL points to, which should resolve the problem here.

[Kalidibus]

With 749802c and related commits, user is now always the user an input URL points to, which should resolve the problem here.

Is there any way to trigger the old behavior? I updated recently and this new behavior broke some important scripts for me. I likes having likes sorted into the different folders of the user that posted them as it allowed me to tag the artist to the files.

[mikf]

@Kalidibus then use author instead of user.

user is the user referenced in the input URL
author is the user who created the Tweet

[Kalidibus]

@mikf - sorry I'm not having any luck still. I've tried the following:

"likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{author}", "Likes"] },
Results in OS errors because the folder name becomes extremely long

"likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{author-likes}", "Likes"] },
Everything goes into a folder called "None"

"likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{author-name}", "Likes"] },
Everything goes into a folder called "None"

[Hrxn]

@mikf - sorry I'm not having any luck still. I've tried the following:

"likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{author}", "Likes"] }, Results in OS errors because the folder name becomes extremely long

You can limit the length of field like this {author[:180]} (length in characters) or {author[b:180]} (length in bytes).
Please note, this is just an example, it's probably not the {author} field, but you can check this for yourself with gallery-dl -K <your_URL>

"likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{author-likes}", "Likes"] }, Everything goes into a folder called "None"

Please check if this value actually exists, you can do this with gallery-dl -K <your_URL>

"likes": { "directory": ["Twitter", "{author-name}", "Likes"] }, Everything goes into a folder called "None"

Same thing. gallery-dl -K <your_URL>