Help associating Reddit posts to RedGIFS/Imgur/Gfycat file names?

[ALonelyJuicebox]

Firstly, thanks to the devs for such a well authored app! 💙

When scraping a user's reddit posts, sometimes that user will have hosted the content on a a different service, like RedGIFs.
Gallery-dl will happily download the content, but by default it'll be sent to a different directory (ex. redgifs) and the name (again, by default) will be something like redgifs_ARandomBunchOfKeywordsFromRedGifs.mp4.

This is fine and all but given that some folks really just use these services (RedGIFS/Gfycat/Imgur) as a video/image hosting platform, I'm trying to sort out a way to capture the title of the Reddit post that linked to the external content in a JSON or text file.

Does this make sense?
For example, if there's a Reddit post with a title of "Check out this video I made!" that links to a file on RedGifs called redgifs_bumblingwanderingpineapple.mp4, I'm trying to generate a file that has the title of the associated reddit post ("Check out this video I made") and the filename of what was pulled down from RedGIFS.

Thanks!

[mikf]

Take a look at the reddit/imgur config in the example config file:

gallery-dl/docs/gallery-dl-example.conf

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	"reddit":
	{
	"#": "only spawn child extractors for links to specific sites",
	"whitelist": ["imgur", "redgifs", "gfycat"],
	"#": "put files from child extractors into the reddit directory",
	"parent-directory": true,
	"#": "transfer metadata to any child extractor as '_reddit'",
	"parent-metadata": "_reddit"
	},
	"imgur":
	{
	"#": "use different directory and filename formats when coming from a reddit post",
	"directory":
	{
	"'_reddit' in locals()": []
	},
	"filename":
	{
	"'_reddit' in locals()": "{_reddit[id]} {id}.{extension}",
	"" : "{id}.{extension}"
	}
	},

You can adjust the imgur filename to also include {_reddit[title]} and use the same config for redgifs/gfycat.

Just writing the Reddit title to an external file can be done with a metadata post processor, but I think putting it directly in the filename is the better option.

All the parent-* options and more are explained in https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/configuration.rst

[ALonelyJuicebox]

Thank you so much! I'll play with these options today. 🙏