Question regarding reddit user profile pinned posts counting against skipped count #7583
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Hello, So my typical workflow for reddit is to run gallery-dl against a list of users, once per day, using an archive file, and then terminate after 10 skips with I prefer the skip count vs. attempting to use dates because of connection issues or potential other reasons that might result in missed days. I noticed on one user a few days ago that they removed one of their pinned posts that contained 6 images and replaced it with a post that contained 1 image, making their 4 pinned posts have 4+1+0+1=6 images where it previously had 4+1+0+6=11 images. In the time frame they had 11 images in their pinned posts gallery-dl would terminate after just the pinned posts, never making it to their newer posts listed below. So on the day after they changed to 6 pinned images gallery-dl downloaded many posts that I'd missed for many weeks. My question is if there's some way to differentiate pinned user profile posts from regular posts, or some way to disregard the pinned posts for the purposes of the skip count? I note that, potentially complicating things, that user profile pinned posts are not necessarily from the user's /user/username personal subreddit. One of the pinned posts in this user I noticed is actually a post the user made to an entirely different subreddit. So even though it is pinned to their profile, it is |
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You can use the "skip-filter": "not locals().get('stickied')" |
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You can use the
skip-filter
option to only count some files towards theskip
limit.The relevant metadata name is apparently
stickied
, so