Memory shards

Last week, I wanted to download a bunch of pictures from a Pleroma account. I didn’t want to download all of them manually so I tried to use gallery-dl.

Sadly, it doesn’t officially support Pleroma. So, I tweaked the Mastodon extractor with the following configuration file located at ~/.config/gallery-dl/config.json.

{
    "extractor":
    {
        "base-directory": "./",
        "mastodon":
        {
            "milker.cafe": "add 'milker.cafe' as recognized pleroma instance",
            "milker.cafe": {
                "root": "https://milker.cafe"
            },
            "directory": ["pleroma", "{instance}", "{account[username]!l}"],
            "filename" : "{id}_{media[id]}.{extension}"
        }
    }
}

Then, I ran gallery-dl on an account.

gallery-dl https://milker.cafe/users/sumire_uesaka

And it worked! I could now download all images posted by a Pleroma account. You can obviously change the base directory and the instance to something else.

See you again, have a nice day!