Is there a way to have a subfolder created in the base path for each download link in the script command?

[Roccobot]

Some downloads create multiple folders (if i get it correctly, one per domain by default?). This way, if I have a command with more than one link, like

gallery-dl reddit.com/user/one reddit.com/user/two

the downloaded files are grouped by domain, not by task, and everything gets mixed.
Is there any clever way to specify an output path that groups stuff by task instead?

[Hrxn]

What do you mean, by task?

As in, one task = one invocation of gallery-dl from the command line?

You can simply override the base directory option?
Maybe use an alternative config file, where you turn off each "directory" setting for every desired extractor, so they do not get grouped this way at all?

[Roccobot]

sorry, I probably misused the term 'task'. I don't know how to call it, a download job maybe? Following my example

gallery-dl reddit.com/user/one reddit.com/user/two

I'd like gallery-dl to create one folder for reddit.com/user/one with all this stuff and subfolders inside grouped by domain, and another for reddit.com/user/two, also with its stuff inside grouped by domain

EDIT: or maybe it would be good to have all the stuff mixed together inside those folders, not even inside one folder per domain, but I'm not sure how to achieve that

Anyway, I updated my post trying to use a less ambiguous language (even if not 100% correct probably).

[Roccobot]

@Hrxn (and I also need to invoke @mikf sorry) I think what I'm asking here is the same as #1862

But honestly I'm not proficient enough to understand what's the correct solution that's explained there. Could you help out a poor n00b here? 😦🙏🏻

[mikf]

It is generally not possible to sort files by task/job/input url (unless you manually set a path with, for example, -D), but just sorting by username, which is what I think you want to do (#2799 (reply in thread)), can be done by using a different directory setting than the default.

reddit.com/user/one uses ["{category}", "{subreddit}"] by default (*). Set it to ["{category}", "{author}"] or just ["{author}"] in your config file and gallery-dl will sort by user/author instead of by subreddit.

(*)
Default (and custom) filename/directory format strings can be seen with -E / --extractor-info

$ gallery-dl -E reddit.com/user/one
Category / Subcategory
  "reddit" / "user"

Filename format (default):
  "{id}{num:? //>02} {title[:220]}.{extension}"

Directory format (default):
  ["{category}", "{subreddit}"]

Archive format (default):
  "{filename}"

(**)
Available metadata field names can be seen with -K / --list-keywords