How to exclude accounts/channels from downloading?

[snwefly]

Sometimes people post accounts in reply and gallery-dl starts to download entire accounts/channels.

example https://old.reddit.com/r/test/comments/160qofk/test_playlist/

Is there any way to prevent that?

Thanks

[Hrxn]

You mean like from Instagram or something? There's a "blacklist" and "whitelist" option for that.

For example, simply add this to your config inside the "reddit": block:

            "blacklist": ["twitter", "instagram"]

[snwefly]

Sometimes people link channel on the reply and gallery-dl proceed to download all the uploaded videos from that channel.

I like to download yt single and playlists and skip any accounts example links like to skip

https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/dummyname
https://www.youtube.com/@dummyname
https://www.youtube.com/user/dummyname
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaabbcc

example links i like to download

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxyz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12345678901
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc12345678
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyz12345678

I tried to put paraments on blacklist but it not working as intended

blacklist": ["twitter", "instagram", "youtube:channel", "ytdl:channel","ytdl:youtube","ytdl:user"],

[mikf]

Use a URL with -E/--extractor-info to get the category names for blacklist/whitelist.

$ gallery-dl -E ytdl:https://www.youtube.com/
Category / Subcategory
  "ytdl" / "YoutubeRecommended"
# -> ytdl:YoutubeRecommended

$ gallery-dl -E ytdl:https://www.youtube.com/c/dummyname
Category / Subcategory
  "ytdl" / "YoutubeTab"
# -> ytdl:YoutubeTab

In your case it might be better to use whitelist instead of blacklist and only list the categories you want to download from instead of the ones you don't. (only one of whitelist and blacklist works at a time, combining both is not possible)

[snwefly]

 "reddit":
        {

                        "client-id": "----------------------",
            "user-agent": "----------------------------------",

            "archive-prefix": "",
            "archive": "~/archive/gallery-dl.archive.reddit.db",

            "directory": ["{title} {id}"],
            "parent-directory": true,
            "parent-metadata": "_reddit_",
            "date-format": "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S",

            "comments": 500,
            "morecomments": false,
            "recursion": 1,
            "videos": "ytdl",
            "sleep-request": [0.6, 0.8],
            "blacklist": ["ytdl:YoutubeTab"],
            "postprocessors": ["nonpicsort"]

        },

It's ignore all ytdlp links, where should i put the blacklist?

[mikf]

Inside reddit, exactly where you put it. Did you actually enable the ytdl extractor?

[snwefly]

above reply contains full reddit part of the config, i put blacklist under

 "sleep-request": [0.6, 0.8],
            "blacklist": ["ytdl:YoutubeTab"],
            "postprocessors": ["nonpicsort"]

ytdl is enabled

 "ytdl":
        {

            "enabled": true,
            "format": null,
            "generic": true,
            "logging": true,
            "module": null,
            "raw-options": null,
            "cmdline-args": "--playlist-end 1",
            "directory": {
                    "'_reddit_' in locals()": [],
                    ""                      : [""]
                            }

        },

[mikf]

{
    "extractor": {
        "reddit": {
            "blacklist": ["ytdl:YoutubeTab"]
        },
        "ytdl": {
            "enabled": true
        }
    }
}

# video
$ gallery-dl -c config.json https://old.reddit.com/r/YoutubeChannelSharing/comments/14yed8q/hi_i_made_this_video_because_i_hit_a_100/
/tmp/_/ytdl/Youtube/100 sub special (content warning!)-nxynb5WWgp8.mkv

# channel
$ gallery-dl -c config.json https://old.reddit.com/r/YoutubeChannelSharing/comments/14xau9s/come_check_out_my_soccer_channel/