deviantart behaviour

[Butterfly-Dragon]

i get the following on all deviantart galleries

[gallery-dl][debug] Starting DownloadJob for 'https://www.deviantart.com/chocolatekeys/gallery/all'
[deviantart][debug] Using DeviantartGalleryExtractor for 'https://www.deviantart.com/chocolatekeys/gallery/all'
[deviantart][debug] Using default API credentials (client-id 5388)
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.deviantart.com:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://www.deviantart.com:443 "GET /api/v1/oauth2/user/profile/chocolatekeys HTTP/1.1" 200 356
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://www.deviantart.com:443 "GET /api/v1/oauth2/gallery/all?username=ChocolateKeys&offset=0&limit=24&mature_content=true HTTP/1.1" 200 None
[deviantart][debug] Using download archive 'D:/Downloads/Downloader//!Downloader/archive.sqlite3'
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://www.deviantart.com:443 "GET /api/v1/oauth2/deviation/download/BEC3C4CF-2F43-CD48-A5EB-C4D02B14594A?mature_content=true HTTP/1.1" 200 505
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://www.deviantart.com:443 "GET /api/v1/oauth2/deviation/download/69ECDFA4-3D94-4D70-9182-D193A25B58CD?mature_content=true HTTP/1.1" 200 505
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://www.deviantart.com:443 "GET /api/v1/oauth2/deviation/download/436003E0-9E3B-B933-DA1F-87D093A16ED5?mature_content=true HTTP/1.1" 200 504

along with comments that it needs to retry downloading with increasingly long times

sometimes i have to stop everything because it tries to download every 4096 seconds... which is... absurd.

i tried to limit it in the extractor options but it does not seem to follow it:

        "deviantart":
        {
            "filename": "{username} - {title}.{extension}",
            "extra": false,
            "flat": true,
            "folders": false,
            "journals": "none",
            "mature": true,
            "metadata": false,
            "original": true,
            "quality": 100,
	        "wait-min": 0,
	        "wait-max": 8
        },

[mikf]

wait-max isn't available here, but I've now limited the maximum wait time to 512 seconds / 8 minutes.

You should get your own dA API credentials to avoid those wait times in the first place:
https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/configuration.rst#extractordeviantartclient-id--client-secret

[Butterfly-Dragon]

i left DA for various personal reasons, i did not wish to try and re-go there

[biznizz]

It is the best way to rip DA galleries/submissions, but I can understand.

You can make a dummy account, then publish the app there, and put the credentials into your config file. Other than possible maintenance (exporting cookies every so often), you won't have to interact with any user/staff than you need to.

[Butterfly-Dragon]

yeah, i will probably do that at some point... did the same for tumblr and pixiv anyway.