tags not supported in extractor.*.archive

[kattjevfel]

I tried setting "archive": "/mnt/jupiter/Temp/gallery-dl/archives/{category}.sqlite3", but I ended up with a file called literally {category}.sqlite3. Am I doing something wrong or is this simply not supported?

[mikf]

Not supported, the archive setting only accepts plain paths.
I can see how using {category} would be really helpful here, but I'd rather not add the ability to use general tags in paths.

[kattjevfel]

Why not? Isn't that being done elsewhere already?

[mikf]

No, it is only supported for the directory setting with its "weird" syntax (["…", "…"]) and nowhere else, because external inputs in a local path are generally a bad idea.

I guess it wouldn't hurt to have a bit more convenience in some places,
but then there would also be the inconsistency of some paths supporting it, and some not.
(e.g. archive <-> cache.file, logfile)

[kattjevfel]

Couldn't the inconsistencies be documented (and why it'd be a bad idea) and have the rest work? I don't know the exact code and python is a bit of dark magic to me, maybe it'd be a very messy implementation and in that case I understand not wanting to implement it.

Either way I suppose adding archive to each and every entry isn't the end of the world.