Gallery-dl: I can't seem to specify my config file in Gallery-dl?

[diece]

I'm decent with tech but don't really know anything with coding, I'm trying to get gallery-dl to recognize my config file but it doesn't seem to see it?

Why is this?

And the broader question here is how to get gallery-dl to read my config file with my OAuth for Deviant art so I can download without getting API errors.

I've created the client id and the secret, made the file but I don't understand what I am doing wrong.

The screenshot should explain things.

[kattjevfel]

You're almost doing it right, instead of doing gallery-dl --config config C:\Users\Jason\gallery-dl you'll want to do gallery-dl --config C:\Users\Jason\gallery-dl\config.json

I'd suggest to enable viewing file extensions to make things a bit more obvious, also I don't know if python still has issues with windows paths, but you may have to use forward slashes instead as well, aka: gallery-dl --config C:/Users/Jason/gallery-dl/config.json

[diece]

I tried that and now I'm getting another error, its asking for a URL? I assume that means a file name?

Not sure.

[kattjevfel]

Well, this tool is for downloading stuff from URLs, yes. So you input the deviantart profiles/posts or whatever site you wanna download from

[diece]

But how do I know it's recognized my config file?

[diece]

(as you can tell im used to GUI type programs haha)

[diece]

Tried a URL and it's still giving me the API error, so I guess that means it is not using my unique API? Sorry if these are dumb questions and the answer is obvious.

[kattjevfel]

Don't worry about the 429 warnings, I've been getting those too lately, deviantart is just shit :p

Unless something changed and it's broken somehow (wouldn't surprise me either)

[diece]

Ahh, that makes sense. Is there any way to check if my config file was properly recognized though?

[kattjevfel]

You can add --verbose and you should see [deviantart][debug] Using custom API credentials (client-id #####) with the ID you set.

[diece]

Tried that, I think it's working. Does this look like its using the custom api?

It doesn't seem to match the one in my config file (the token) but I might not be looking at the right thing.

[kattjevfel]

That's too far down to tell, it shows right when you start, anyway I personally found a bug just now as I accidentally nuked my own deviantart application, and now when trying to get a new refresh-token I'm unable to.

anyway your config (at least the deviantart part) should look like this:

        "deviantart": {
            "client-id": "<redacted>",
            "client-secret": "<redacted>",
            "refresh-token": "<redacted>"
        },

[diece]

god damn.

Its using the default api.

I think my config file is wrong, looking at what you put there.

Can you take a look??

https://pastebin.com/YBJfvAz4

(The XXXX is the token I got from Deviant art. No fields for client-secret and Id.)

[kattjevfel]

Here's how to set up a application on deviantart and how to put it in your config: https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/configuration.rst#api-tokens--ids

You'll want to copy those to client-id and client-secret

As for the token, well that part I can't get working myself, used to, but not anymore.
I've made a separate issue for that: https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/670

[diece]

Where do I put them in my config file? I've followed those steps but I just don't understand where I should put them in. Do I just put them below refresh token on my config file?

[diece]

Like this?

[mikf]

Yes, like this basically, but make sure you get the commas right. Every key-value pair in a block has to end with a comma, except the last one.

It should look like https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/669#issuecomment-609068947, and all the other values go under client-secret. (Order doesn't matter, so can they can go anywhere inside the deviantart block)

[diece]

Alright, looks like I finally got it to work., thanks for the help guys and thank you mikf for creating such a cool program, just found out it even downloads zip and rar files from the gallery too, that's pretty damn cool.

Cheers!