[catbox] Direct links

[AlttiRi]

In additional to uploadir #3162 it makes sense to add the support for the direct links of catbox.

More over, there is already the support for catbox gallery URLs (catbox category, album subcategory), but not for the direct links. (a799fae. For example, /c/8xw6g4, /c/zeara1)

Direct links look like these:

• https://files.catbox.moe/ph41ul.png
• https://de.catbox.moe/bjdmz1.jpg
• https://litter.catbox.moe/t8v3n9.png

Last-Modified header is present.

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Note: litter links are temporal, they live for 72 hours.

[mikf]

Aren't these already covered by the directlink extractor?

uploadir

There was some extra code necessary to to make non-image file downloads work, but I don't think that's the case for catbox. Even wget and curl are more then enough here and probably better than gallery-dl.

[AlttiRi]

Currently the config for catbox will work for album links only, while an album is just a collection of direct links.
However, direct links are put to directlink/files.catbox.moe__ph41ul.png, album files to catbox\Six (zeara1)\3bs9a6.png.
One service, but different filename, path formats, as well as and the set of keys for using in filename (no date and different category).

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Although, there is a question is filename unique for all domain files, de, litter, or there may be intersections.

[AlttiRi]

Even wget and curl are more then enough here and probably better than gallery-dl.

Do they support:

• auto file naming
• multiple URLs input
• custom filename pattern
• using formatted Last-Modified value in the filename pattern
• setting Last-Modified value as a file mtime
• download history

I see that they support only the first thing (with a flag), and multiple input from a file.

I don't think that these tools are okay for media downloading.
They are okay only for one time downloading, when you don't care about any meta information, you only need a raw file.