Is it possible to download to different drives?

[pomiru]

Is the base-directory locked in one drive only? Or is it possible to override that and have each extractor download to separate drives? I'd like my twitter folder to download to the A: drive, and my pixiv folder to the D: drive for example.

Thanks!

[kattjevfel]

You can set it do download wherever you want, see https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/configuration.rst#extractorbase-directory

You can set that either for all of gallery-dl or per extractor

[rautamiekka]

OP, that ain't how it works, there's literally nothing preventing from using diff folders, let alone drives, and it'd take additional code to implement, which would be an outright stupid thing to do.

[pomiru]

what are you even talking about? I just wanted to know how to download to a different drive, not implement any bit of code to the main program.

[rautamiekka]

That ain't what I said, I said there's nothing to prevent using separate folders and drives.

See the minimum example by @Twi-Hard below that shows how to change the drive/folder per extractor, in this case Pixiv and Twitter.

I'm sure you could specify another place for specific sub-extractors, like gallery to D:\DAGallery and favs to H:\DAFavs for DeviantArt.

[Twi-Hard]

This would be the minimum for the config file:

{
  "extractor": {
    "pixiv": {
      "base-directory": "D:\\path\\to\\folder"
    },
    "twitter": {
      "base-directory": "A:\\path\\to\\folder"
    }
  }
}