How to get the text description from the image page?

[paulolimac]

I can get the text from flickr, but can not get from instagram nor deviantart.

So using the instruction from here, I coded this config:

{
	"extractor":
	{
		"sleep": 1,

		"postprocessors":
		[
			{
				"name": "metadata",
				"mode": "custom",
				"format": "{description}\n"
			}
		]

	}
}

Used those pages to test:

• https://www.deviantart.com/onistocke/art/CatButt-801590024
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/mellbin/7085146945/
• https://www.instagram.com/p/l2-y4Jn5wN/

[mikf]

You need to enable the metadata option to get description texts from DeviantArt (extra API calls necessary, therefore "hidden" behind an option).

There is currently no description available for Instagram pictures.

(You can see all available metadata fields with
gallery-dl -K <URL> or, as JSON, with gallery-dl -j <URL>)

[mikf]

Instagram now also has description metadata (03e6876)

[paulolimac]

Hi @mikf, thanks for your reply!
Now I learned how to get the Deviantart and Instagram descriptions.
And to verify the metadatas from each supported domain.

Because I'm using pip, I could not run your new code to get Instagram descriptions (maybe a version release issue, I'm using 1.8.6).
But I appreciated so much that you coded to solve my question.
Really, thank you for that! 👍

For those insterested, I runned the command with my re-coded config.json, both bellow:
$ gallery-dl --config=./config.json https://www.deviantart.com/onistocke/art/CatButt-801590024

config.json:

{
	"extractor":
	{
		"sleep": 1,

		"postprocessors":
		[
			{
				"name": "metadata",
				"mode": "custom",
				"format": "{description}\n"
			}
		],

		"flickr":
		{
			"filename": "{date}_-_{title}_-_{id}.{extension}",
			"postprocessors": [{
              			"name": "metadata",
		                "mode": "custom",
                		"format": "{title}\n{date}\n{description}\n"
	                }]

		},

		"instagram":
		{
			"date-format": "%Y-%m",
			"filename": "{date}_-_{media_id}_-_{shortcode}.{extension}"
		},

		"deviantart":
		{
			"metadata": "true",
			"filename": "{date}_-_{title}_-_{index}.{extension}",
			"postprocessors": [{
              			"name": "metadata",
		                "mode": "custom",
                		"format": "{title}\n{date}\n{description}\n"
	                }]

		}
	}
}

[Hrxn]

@paulolimac
Not sure what you mean with pip here, why would this be a restriction?
You can always do something like this;
pip install --upgrade https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/archive/master.zip

[paulolimac]

Yes @Hrxn, it is a restriction/requirements for me only, not for this thread itself.
And thanks, it is good to have many ways to do the pip installation/upgrade.

Best regards.