[gallery-dl][error] No suitable extractor found (artstation)

[Miroslav-Cetojevic]

Background - because the artstation page I want to download from has its images grouped as albums by artists, I used the following in command-line:

gallery-dl -o directory=[{category}, {album[title]}] https://www.artstation.com/gunrev -d "My_Path\Gunship Revolution"

and received this error:

[gallery-dl][error] No suitable extractor found for '{album[title]}]'

If I had to guess, this fails because the default album that has all the images included doesn't have the keyword album[title] included.

Is there a workaround? Should I make a feature request for this?

[mikf]

You need to put the option for -o in quotes, otherwise your shell splits the argument at the space and -o directory=[{category}, {album[title]}] is interpreted as 3 arguments. The first two being -o directory=[{category}, and the third {album[title]}], which gets interpreted as possible URL.

gallery-dl -o "directory=[{category}, {album[title]}]" https://www.artstation.com/gunrev -d "My_Path\Gunship Revolution"

[mikf]

Sorry, it should be

gallery-dl -o "directory=[\"{category}\", \"{album[title]}\"]" https://www.artstation.com/gunrev -d "My_Path\Gunship Revolution"

The individual directory sections also need to be in quotes, and single quotes are not allowed because JSON.

[Miroslav-Cetojevic]

I used your solution which resulted in gallery-dl: error: unrecognized arguments: https://www.artstation.com/gunrev

[mikf]

Hmm, it works for me, even in cmd.exe. Maybe you missing a quote somewhere?
Try copying and pasting the entire command, or just put the directory setting in a config file where it is a lot easier to handle, at least in my opinion.

(venv) E:\>py -m gallery_dl -o "directory=[\"{category}\", \"{album[title]}\"]" https://www.artstation.com/gunrev -d "My_Path\Gunship Revolution"
* My_Path\Gunship Revolution\artstati...9799474_36732315_Mortic Lifeleecher.jpg
* My_Path\Gunship Revolution\artstati...n_9333368_34832372_Portfolio Review.jpg

KeyboardInterrupt

[Miroslav-Cetojevic]

Huh, it does work, after all, must've done something wrong before. However, there's an unintended consequence: since the default album doesn't have the keyword album[title], i.e. no value, it creates a folder named None and downloads all the images before moving to the next albums, thereby repeating previous downloads in different locations.