Use different extractor

[ghbook]

Gfycat website is not working anymore.

I would like to use Redgifs extractor for Gfycat urls instead of gfycat extractor.

gallery-dl -v https://gfycat.com/HappyVibrantAlbacoretuna

If you run above command you will see, gallery-dl checks and fails Gfycat 5 times then it uses Redgifs extractor at the end and downloads the file. I would like to use Redgifs extractor directly. Let me know how to use in python script as well. Thanks.

[Hrxn]

Well, well...

Gfycat is not working because the entire site is down (for two days now or something)... at least for me.

Not sure about your suggestion, because I have some doubts that this would work for most URLs.
There has been a transition phase, for lack of a better term, back then when content on gfycat = content on redgif in terms of addressability, but this does not hold true anymore, especially not for the entirety of the content on gfycat, as far as I know..

[ghbook]

Not sure about your suggestion,

Well I am not suggesting gallery-dl to use different extractor, I just want to use in my personal project.

As for Gfycat content goes, all of Gfycat NSFW content is available on redgifs.

[mikf]

Gfycat is not working because the entire site is down (for two days now or something)... at least for me.

The site is down for everyone. They've managed to let their SSL/TLS certificate expire and haven't renewed it for two days.

[mikf]

There is no option to force a specific or different extractor. This is all tied to the input URL used.

You could manually rewrite gfycat.com URLs to redgifs.com,
or you disable certificate verification for gfycat to get around the SSLErrors,
or you reduce timeout and number of retries for gfycat.

[etui-null]

Wait, really? You might want to update the README then, because it pretty clearly states that this is possible.
(link will take you to the highlighted section if you use Chrome, wasn't sure how to hotlink to a line in a readme like you can with lines of code, if it doesn't take you there its under Usage -> Examples -> last section, https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl#examples)

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl#:~:text=If%20a%20site%27s%20address%20is%20nonstandard%20for%20its%20extractor%2C%20you%20can%20prefix%20the%20URL%20with%20the%20extractor%27s%20name%20to%20force%20the%20use%20of%20a%20specific%20extractor%3A

[mikf]

It works for some sites, but not all.

For example, it is possible to use the tumblr extractor for Tumblr blogs with a custom domain (tumblr:https://sometumblrblog.example) or a not natively supported Mastodon instance (mastodon:https://tabletop.social/@USER), but you cannot force using an arbitrary extractor for an arbitrary URL. The regex pattern must support such prefixes.