How to save video with its metadata?

[gphg]

I want to emulate this that can be normally be done on yt-dlp, but on gallery-dl:

yt-dlp --embed-metadata <URL>

How?

Update:
For additional information, this is the content of my ~/.config/yt-dlp/config:

--embed-metadata
--output "%(extractor)s %(id)s %(title).200s.%(ext)s"

Additional update:
I was targeting x.com. But this could be useful on other services too.

Update:
I found the %(id)s returning not the tweet ID, but something else. But this is normal on YouTube, Vimeo, and other services — I don't know why.

[mikf]

See #8257

Use "videos": "ytdl" and look into downloader.ytdl.… options.

[gphg]

I got this error. What should I do?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3540, in process_info
    info_dict['__finaldir'] = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(full_filename))
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen posixpath>", line 415, in abspath
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gallery_dl/downloader/ytdl.py", line 165, in _download_video
    ytdl_instance.process_info(info_dict)
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 187, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3546, in process_info
    raise UnavailableVideoError(err)
yt_dlp.utils.UnavailableVideoError: Unable to download video: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
[download][error] Failed to download 1966409327956340755_1.mp4
[twitter][debug] Sleeping 20.11 seconds (download)
[downloader.ytdl][debug] Forwarding cookies to yt_dlp.YoutubeDL
[downloader.ytdl][debug] [twitter] Extracting URL: https://x.com/i/web/status/1966408787532857391
[downloader.ytdl][debug] [twitter] 1966408787532857391: Downloading GraphQL JSON
[downloader.ytdl][debug] [twitter] 1966408787532857391: Downloading m3u8 information
./gallery-dl/twitter/elflina_private/1966408787532857391_1.mp4[downloader.ytdl][debug] [download] ./gallery-dl/twitter/elflina_private/1966408787532857391_1.fhls-10026.mp4 has already been downloaded
[downloader.ytdl][debug] [download] Download completed
[downloader.ytdl][debug] [download] ./gallery-dl/twitter/elflina_private/1966408787532857391_1.fhls-audio-128000-Audio.mp4 has already been downloaded
[downloader.ytdl][debug] [download] Download completed
[downloader.ytdl][debug]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3540, in process_info
    info_dict['__finaldir'] = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(full_filename))
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen posixpath>", line 415, in abspath
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gallery_dl/downloader/ytdl.py", line 165, in _download_video
    ytdl_instance.process_info(info_dict)
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 187, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3546, in process_info
    raise UnavailableVideoError(err)
yt_dlp.utils.UnavailableVideoError: Unable to download video: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
[download][error] Failed to download 1966408787532857391_1.mp4

This is my configuration:

{
  ...
  "downloader": {
    "ytdl": {
      "cmdline-args": [
        "--embed-metadata",
        "--cookies-from-browser",
        "firefox"
      ]
    }
  },
  ...
}

Update: it is working now. Had to modify the yt-dlp config file into something like this:

--embed-metadata
--output "%(extractor)s %(display_id&display_id|id)s %(title).200s.%(ext)s"

[gphg]

I got errors sometimes. It is different error and it has to do with receiving JSON.

[downloader.ytdl][debug] [twitter] 1955952892592185509: Downloading GraphQL JSON
[downloader.ytdl][error] ERROR: [twitter] 1955952892592185509: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='x.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=20.0) (caused by TransportError("HTTPSConnectionPool(host='x.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=20.0)"))
[download][error] Failed to download 1955952892592185509_1.mp4
[twitter][debug] Skipping 1955837203357339676 (quoted tweet)

Change the retries to higher value fixed this.

[mikf]

These are all yt-dlp errors. Sorry, but I can't help with those.

I can only report that it Works on my machine ™️ for regular videos:

$ gallery-dl -c config.json https://twitter.com/perrypumas/status/1065692031626829824?s=20
[twitter][info] Initializing client transaction keys
./twitter/perrypumas/1065692031626829824_1.mp4

[gphg]

These are all yt-dlp errors. Sorry, but I can't help with those.

I can only report that it Works on my machine ™️ for regular videos:

$ gallery-dl -c config.json https://twitter.com/perrypumas/status/1065692031626829824?s=20
[twitter][info] Initializing client transaction keys
./twitter/perrypumas/1065692031626829824_1.mp4

For additional information, this is my configuration file:

{
  "postprocessors": [
        {
            "name": "metadata",
            "mode": "json",
            "directory": "./"
        },
        {
            "name": "mtime"
        }
  ],
  "downloader": {
    "ytdl": {
      "cmdline-args": [
        "--retries",
        "100",
        "--embed-metadata",
        "--cookies-from-browser",
        "firefox"
      ]
    }
  },
  "extractor": {
    "path-restrict": "windows",
    "twitter": {
      "text-tweets": true,
      "retweets": true,
      "cookies": ["firefox"],
      "sleep": [14.9, 29.2],
      "sleep-request": [13.8, 33.6],
      "videos": "ytdl",
      "retries": 99,
    },
    ...
  }
}

My idea is to download whole /media from an account, sometimes, out of curiosity. I put sleep so I can avoid suspension.

The retries does not seem working.