[nitter] user['id'] is always 0

[kattjevfel]

It appears user['id'] always returns on nitter, not sure if this is a problem with gallery-dl or nitter itself.

katt@main ~ » gallery-dl --ignore-config -K https://nitter.it/BF_HIYORATORY
Keywords for directory names:
-----------------------------
...
user['id']
  0
...

Keywords for filenames and --filter:
------------------------------------
...
  0
user['id']
  0
...

It works fine with twitter. Using gallery-dl 1d505b3

[mikf]

The availability of user['id'] depends on the user having a profile banner, as weird as that may sound.

The only place where nitter has a user ID value in its HTML is the profile banner URL, and if that's not present then there's no way of getting that value except maybe querying Twitter itself.

Check the HTML source of https://nitter.it/BF_HIYORATORY and you won't find 1341019071266004992 anywhere.

[kattjevfel]

hm, well should gallery-dl report it in the metadata at all, if it cannot find it?

[mikf]

Not sure, but I think in general I'd prefer an empty/invalid value over no value at all.

[kattjevfel]

fair enough, I'll close this then.

[mikf]

Eventually, meaning v2.0 or later, there should be a proper undefined value (similar to util.NONE?) and trying to access anything undefined in any context should not raise an exception as it does at the moment, but a falsy value is good enough for now, I think. At least it lets users know that there is the possibility of a user ID instead of giving no information at all. (#3119 (comment))