[Feature request] --dump-user-json, --dump-json without post information

[Scripter17]

I'm trying to automatically get people's alt/other website accounts, but when I do gallery-dl --dump-json https://twitter.com/username it gets all the tweets it would when downloading https://twitter.com/username

Basically the idea is that --dump-user-json returns just the "user" part of what is written to metadata files

Using --range 0 is usually good enough but would fail if the user never posted anything

[ClosedPort22]

You can use gallery-dl --write-pages --filter 'abort()' https://twitter.com/elonmusk/photo to save user data as TXT files in your working directory.

--write-pages dumps the response
/photo prevents additional API requests
--filter 'abort()' aborts the current download job before downloading the user's profile picture

[mikf]

Implementing this is not possible with the current code base.

You'll have to wait for v2 for that, or you write a small Python script that uses gallery-dl's TwitterAPI code.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys
from gallery_dl.util import dump_json
from gallery_dl.extractor import twitter

extr = twitter.TwitterTweetExtractor.from_url("twitter.com/i/status/1")
api = twitter.TwitterAPI(extr)

name = sys.argv[1]
user = api.user_by_screen_name(name)
dump_json(user)

[mikf]

For the time being, you can use /USER/profile as URL together with --dump-json to get user profile information and nothing else (c2bf4ff).

I might change the name and URL path, but I'm not really sure what would fit best here. (#5262 (comment))