Manual Output Folder Name?

[Soeroah]

Mostly got everything set up the way I want, but some twitter accounts the author's name is like Harry but their Twitter account (and thus their output folder in gallery-dl) is like SH87324jNS or some silly such thing.

Is there a way to add to the string a way to manually pick a name for the output folder? not to change the location of where the files end up or anything, just change name from the Twitter account to a pre-set name.

My current string is

py -3 -m gallery_dl https://twitter.com/-account name-/media --range 1-30

[Hrxn]

Not sure if I can follow...

You can change the "directory" option for Twitter to whatever you like..
You can simply add any ["String", "that", "you", "want"]?

Or, maybe a better example:
Here's the directory name config that I currently use for Twitter, it distinguishes between normal Tweets (originating from the account), retweets and quotetweets:

                "directory": {
                    "retweet_id"    : ["Twitter", "Timelines", "{bkey}", "{ckey}", "{user[name]}", "+Retweets"],
                    "user != author": ["Twitter", "Timelines", "{bkey}", "{ckey}", "{user[name]}", "+Quotetweets"],
                    ""              : ["Twitter", "Timelines", "{bkey}", "{ckey}", "{user[name]}"]
                },
                "filename": "{author[name]!t:?/__/R /_/}{date:%Y-%m-%d}__{filename!t:?/__/R /_/}{tweet_id}_{num}.{extension}"

Simply change the "{user[name]}" to whatever you want, if you don't like to use the actual account name, for whatever reason.

And you can also add any custom keywords into any output name field, like here with "{bkey}" and "{ckey}".

All you have to do is set your own keywords in your configuration file at the top level, then you can define them at the command-line or via an input file option.

In other words, here's what the beginning of such a config file would look like:

{
    "extractor":
    {
        "base-directory": "./gallery-dl",
        "keywords": {"bkey": "", "ckey": ""},
        "keywords-default": "",

[Soeroah]

Sorry for being confusing.

Essentially, as a practical example, say I want to grab some media from a Twitter account run by an artist named ABC, but for whatever reason their Twitter handle is XYZ.

At the moment, I use this string:

py -3 -m gallery_dl https://twitter.com/XYZ/media --range 1-30

That would give me the media in a folder that is itself called XYZ. I'm hoping there's some string I can add to the command prompt string to instead give the folder the name ABC, so I know it's from that artist.

The problem is when I have multiple accounts I want to run at once, I'm not sure a config-level edit would help? Truth be told, I'm completely inept at the actual programming side of things, so I was hoping to be able to get the result I wanted with some extra text on the CMD string, like how --range 1-30 means 'download the last 30 media items'. I had hoped there was a string to manually name the output folder.

If that doesn't exist, it's okay. I can probably set up AdvancedRenamer to batch rename the folders to the right thing, it's just a bit of extra set-up and clicks.

[mikf]

There is -D/--directory to set the download directory, or you use -o keywords.NAME=ABC and use {NAME} in your directory format strings.