[pinterest] user subcategory getting treated as board subcategory

[github-account1111]

I would like to download every pin created by https://www.pinterest.com/amazon (https://www.pinterest.com/amazon/_created/) to folder amazon-pinterest/, as well as https://www.pinterest.com/mybelonging/garage-goals/ to bookmarks/pinterest-mybelonging-garage-goals/.

Relevant config portion:

{
  "postprocessor": {
    "pinterest": {
      "directory": ["{owner[username]}-pinterest"],
      "board": {
        "directory": ["bookmarks", "pinterest-{board[owner][username]}-{board[name]}"]
      }
    }
  }
}

The problem:
--extractor-info on https://www.pinterest.com/amazon outputs

Category / Subcategory
  "pinterest" / "user"

... but --list-keywords outputs

subcategory
  board

So everything ends up going under bookmarks as if it was a board.

[Hrxn]

I would like to download every pin created by https://www.pinterest.com/amazon (https://www.pinterest.com/amazon/_created/) to folder amazon-pinterest/, as well as https://www.pinterest.com/mybelonging/garage-goals/ to bookmarks/pinterest-mybelonging-garage-goals/.

Relevant config portion:

{
  "postprocessor": {
    "pinterest": {
      "directory": ["{owner[username]}-pinterest"],
      "board": {
        "directory": ["bookmarks", "pinterest-{board[owner][username]}-{board[name]}"]
      }
    }
  }
}

That.. doesn't seem right. Why do you put extractor options inside of "postprocessor":?

Here's an example config, which is an absolute minimal config except for Pinterest. You could try this as a starting point:

{
    "extractor":
    {

         "pinterest":
        {
            "pin":
            {
                "directory": ["Pinterest", "Selected Pins"]
            },
            "board":
            {
                "directory": ["Pinterest", "Boards", "{board[owner][username]}", "{board[name]}"]
            },
            "pinit":
            {
                "directory": ["Pinterest", "Pin-its"]
            },
            "sections": true,
            "videos": true,

            "filename": "{category}_{id}.{extension}"
        }

    }
}

[github-account1111]

I guess I was tired 😄 copied it wrong.
Here's the actual portion:

{
  "extractor": {
    "pinterest": {
      "directory": ["{owner[username]}-pinterest"],
      "board": {
        "directory": ["bookmarks", "pinterest-{board[owner][username]}-{board[name]}"]
      }
    }
  }
}

It's not necessary to specify all subcategories, is it?
I am only interested in a different folder structure for boards.
For _created stuff I want it to go using the general Pinterest directory structure.

[Hrxn]

We've all been there.. 😄

{
  "extractor": {
    "pinterest": {
      "directory": ["{owner[username]}-pinterest"],
      "board": {
        "directory": ["bookmarks", "pinterest-{board[owner][username]}-{board[name]}"]
      }
    }
  }
}

Yeah, I think this should work.. 😑

It's not necessary to specify all subcategories, is it?

Nope, only the ones you want to change.

[github-account1111]

Got it!
So the problem then is, I get an error with https://www.pinterest.com/amazon/_created:

[pinterest][error] NotFoundError: Requested board could not be found

... even though it seems to be allowed

gallery-dl/gallery_dl/extractor/pinterest.py

Lines 174 to 180 in 7e545a3

	test = (
	("https://www.pinterest.de/g1952849/", {
	"pattern": PinterestBoardExtractor.pattern,
	"count": ">= 2",
	}),
	("https://www.pinterest.de/g1952849/_saved/"),
	)

So I used https://www.pinterest.com/amazon instead, but that gets treated as a board for some reason and follows the board directory structure.

Edit: no wait I think I'm still tired.
_saved is not the same as _created!
So I guess there is no way to save only the user's original content?
I specifically want only the user's uploads (whatever is under https://www.pinterest.com/amazon/_created).

[Hrxn]

Edit: no wait I think I'm still tired. _saved is not the same as _created!

Indeed.. for the "user" sub-extractor, the input URL has to match this regular expression:

gallery-dl/gallery_dl/extractor/pinterest.py

Line 173 in 7e545a3

pattern = BASE_PATTERN + r"/(?!pin/)([^/?#&]+)(?:/_saved)?/?$"

So I guess there is no way to save only the user's original content? I specifically want only the user's uploads (whatever is under https://www.pinterest.com/amazon/_created).

Not yet.. but I think this should be relatively straightforward to add form here on..

By the way, if you run gallery-dl with the --verbose option, you should see which extractor including which sub-extractor get actually used in one of the first lines, as far as I know..

[mikf]

User URLs get processed by fetching all boards for that account and then downloading from those, which is why all downloaded files have

subcategory
  board

You can enable category-transfer or you do something like this to be able to differentiate between regular boards and boards from user profiles.

/_created/ URLs are not supported and get treated as if they where a board URL. Same with /boards/.

[github-account1111]

Apologies for being so cryptic in what I'm trying to achieve.
This probably stems from my unfamiliarity with how Pinterest works.
Should've put a bit more thought before starting an issue.

My goal boils down to differentiating between the _created user board and all the other user boards.
I want to save

• original content by several users into the respective users' folders
• all of my boards into the respective boards' folders

Not sure what is meant by regular boards though.
Aren't all boards created by users?

[mikf]

Commit 9c5d2d7 adds support for pins listed under _created with its own created subcategory, and 0b33435 adds support for multiple files per pin, which was needed for the pins under /amazon/_created (and it was part of an old open issue)

This probably stems from my unfamiliarity with how Pinterest works.

same

Not sure what is meant by regular boards though.

I meant using a board URL as direct input to gallery-dl ("regular" board), or when such a URL comes from a user URL like https://www.pinterest.com/amazon.