[Ask] Downloading from a specific source

[TheGlassEyedVillian]

While downloading a subreddit I realized that the files of the links in the comments of each post of the subreddit which are compatible with gallery-dl are downloaded as well

For example, there is a post which has an image embeded with it on Reddit
But someone in the comment has posted another link which leads to Imgur
Since I only want the reddit link to be downloaded
But now the Imgur link is downloaded as well

so how do I configure gallery-dl so that it only downloads from the sources I mention to be downloaded from?
I can't really figure out how to do that

[Hrxn]

Just to be sure: But you want the links from the comments as well, as long as they are images hosted on Reddit, for example?

[mikf]

Filtering those links with gallery-dl alone is currently not possible, but you could get all links from a subreddit, write them to a file, filter them there, and input them into gallery-dl again.

$ gallery-dl -g reddit.com/r/subreddit > links.txt
# remove unwanted stuff from links.txt
$ gallery-dl -i links.txt

# or with a pipe, but you'd need grep or similar
$ gallery-dl -g reddit.com/r/subreddit | grep … | gallery-dl -i -

And if you don't want it to fetch links from comments as well, set reddit.comments to 0

[TheGlassEyedVillian]

Just to be sure: But you want the links from the comments as well, as long as they are images hosted on Reddit, for example?

Kinda, but I want to get not only reddit links but specific links I mention while executing.
For example if there are reddit , imgur and say booru links
I would mention that I only need the links that are from Imgur and Reddit and ignore all the booru links.

[mikf]

@TheGlassEyedVillian it's been nearly a year, but there is finally a blacklist and whitelist option in 1.15.0 to control which links to other sites to follow, e.g. "whitelist": ["imgur"] for reddit will only download native Reddit media and stuff from Imgur.