Aliasing nitter instances to twitter extractor

[cold-quix]

Currently, gallery-dl supports Twitter and Nitter URLs, the latter of which is simply treated as the former. This is helpful, but I tend not to use the nitter.net instance because it is often rate limited due to its popularity; instead I use other instances like nitter.42l.fr or nitter.pussthecat.org, etc.

However, gallery-dl does not recognize these URLs and I have to correct them manually to twitter.com or nitter.net. Is there a way to add an alias or extractor to the gallery-dl config file so that the program will treat certain URLs as though they were Twitter URLs?

[qqux]

Is there a way to add an alias or extractor to the gallery-dl config file so that the program will treat certain URLs as though they were Twitter URLs?

@cold-quix there is a feature that does exactly that. It's even described in the manual: https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl#examples

But... for some reason it does not seem to work.

$ gallery-dl twitter:https://nitter.42l.fr/test
[gallery-dl][error] No suitable extractor found for 'twitter:https://nitter.42l.fr/test'

If that feature were working, the commandline above would be what you'd use.

mikf added the site-feature-request label

@mikf that makes this issue a bugfix request, not a feature request :P

[jadedgnome]

I tried adding nitter.42l.fr to twitter.py but that didn't work because it falls back to twitter api rather than grabbing nitter proxied urls.

gallery-dl/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py

Line 18 in ba69fb6

r"(?:twitter\.com|nitter\.net)"

r"(?:twitter\.com|nitter\.net|nitter\.42l\.fr)"

not a programmer so thats the extent of my tinkering.