[Feature Request] Specific metadata field for artists in Boorus, like Danbooru's tag_string_artist

[KonoVitoDa]

I've always wondered why extractors for sites like Gelbooru and Sankaku Complex don't have their own artist field, like Danbooru does, even considering that these two sites already place Artists separately from the other tags. I hope this gets implemented someday, it would be very convenient!

[taskhawk]

It's already implemented:

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/configuration.rst#extractorboorutags

[KonoVitoDa]

It's already implemented:

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/configuration.rst#extractorboorutags

No way! 😱 Is this a recent update or was it already there?

[taskhawk]

It's been there for a while now, don't know exactly, too lazy to check.

Check out the whole configuration page, you may be unaware of more stuff that could be useful for you. It has happened to me before.

[rautamiekka]

And both the 'Blame' button and the commit history, available when viewing the file, will be useful. Although, granted, 'Blame' for such a painfully long file also gets exponentially painfully long to read.

[KonoVitoDa]

It's been there for a while now, don't know exactly, too lazy to check.

I checked the history and it looks like it was there since before I started using gallery-dl... 😅

Check out the whole configuration page, you may be unaware of more stuff that could be useful for you. It has happened to me before.

I will, thanks!

[mikf]

I've always wondered why extractors for sites like Gelbooru and Sankaku Complex don't have their own artist field, like Danbooru does

Danbooru's API provides these fields by default, while all/most other *booru sites only provide a general list of tags. To have them qualified as "artist", "character", and so on, gallery-dl has to do an additional HTTP request for each post and, since that's rather expensive and unnecessary for general use, it is hidden behind an option.