Setting custom instagram name outputs and metadata?

[xathian]

I've been trying to find if it's possible to make gallery-dl name my outputs, I checked the documentation and either it's not there or I couldn't find it. While googling I stumbled upon this issue ticket

#6677

In this post he has a wildly customized config for instagram. He has things like

"posts": {
            "directory": ["instagram", "{username}", "Posts", "{date:%Y-%m-%d}"],
            "filename" : "{date:%Y-%m-%d}_{num} - {description[:90]} - {filename}.{extension}",
  		"order-files": "asc",
  		"metadata": true,
  		"postprocessors": ["metadata-insta"]

Mine is just

            "api": "rest",
            "cookies": "C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\gallery-dl\cookies.txt",
            "include": "posts",
            "order-files": "asc",
            "order-posts": "asc",
            "previews": false,
            "sleep-request": [6.0, 12.0],
            "videos": true,

I tried copypasting his config, it changed nothing. I tried adding specific lines from it like the metadata line and the filename lines, it changed nothing. In fact NOTHING I change here does anything, That cookie I have set? Doesn't work, I have to manually add -C [directory] to my command prompt to make it work.

How can I make my gallery-dl instagram outputs use a timestamp like that?

[xathian]

Wow actually I just discovered my issue, for some reason my gallery-dl isn't loading the config file even though it's the one created by the application when it first ran. I used the command

gallery-dl --config-open

and it gave me

[config][warning] Unable to find any writable configuration file

So now I figured out I can force a config file with the --config command. However I tried forcing this filename

"filename": "{Y%-m%-d% %H.%M.%S}_{num:}.{extension}",

And instead of a timestamp it just says "None". Also tried truncating it to just

"filename": "{Y%-m%-d%}_{num:}.{extension}",

and it still fails, even though that exact date format supposedly worked for the guy in the issue I linked.

So my question is now, how can I make the timestamps work and also why isn't gallery-dl using the config file it generated for me?

[mikf]

and it still fails, even though that exact date format supposedly worked for the guy in the issue I linked.

He is using {date:%Y-%m-%d}

[xathian]

and it still fails, even though that exact date format supposedly worked for the guy in the issue I linked.

He is using {date:%Y-%m-%d}

Thanks, solved. I had date in my first attempt when it wasn't loading the config but during the fix for that I seemed to have removed it. Also is there a list somewhere of all the {terms} I can use for formatting a post from instagram?

[mikf]

Run gallery-dl --config-status. That will show you a list of supported config file locations and their respective status.

edit: Run gsllery-dl -K IG_URL to get a list of available formatting {terms}

[xathian]

Run gallery-dl --config-status. That will show you a list of supported config file locations and their respective status.

edit: Run gsllery-dl -K IG_URL to get a list of available formatting {terms}

Thank you!