Adding post processors - how?

[kendrakirai]

I've been searching around and I can't find anything for how to add post processors to gallery-dl. Can anyone give me a hand? Do I just copy them to the end of gallery-dl.conf?

[mikf]

There are several examples in docs/gallery-dl-example.conf, like

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

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	"postprocessors": [
	{
	"name": "metadata",
	"mode": "custom",
	"directory" : "Descriptions",
	"content-format" : "{description}\n",
	"extension-format": "descr.txt"
	}
	]

Do I just copy them to the end of gallery-dl.conf?

You copy them into the relevant extractor config block, where they are supposed to run. Like in the example I posted in #7214 (comment)

[kendrakirai]

I have a hell of a time even finding the docs, thank you.

.....I think I finally got it, thank you! can postprocessors have custom switches? Like, only grab text tweets if the metadata postprocessor is active? Or does it need the base extractor setting?

[mikf]

I have a hell of a time even finding the docs

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/tree/master/docs
https://gdl-org.github.io/docs/

can postprocessors have custom switches?

Post-processors support filters that allow running them only when certain conditions are met …

Like, only grab text tweets if the metadata postprocessor is active

… but that's not possible.

You'd have to use cmdline flags or something to enable/disable both text Tweets and the metadata post-processor. Having one depend on the other is not natively supported.