Various folders/config files - Priority: Getting the X.com files to download with date of being published in the filename along with the ID number string

[bloodconfetti]

Sorry to be a bother, but please note that I'm very uneducated when it comes to technology, so anything you think is simple, probably has to be dumbed down a bit for me to be able to implement it.

I have three gallery-dl folders on my computer.

1. C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming
2. C:\Users\redacted\gallery-dl
3. One in my documents folder that's for a specific subject matter.

In 1. I have:

• cach.squlite3
• config.json

My config.json looks like:
{ "extractor":{ "cookies": [""], "x":{ "users": "https://x.com/{legacy[screen_name]}", "text-tweets":true, "quoted":true, "retweets":true, "logout":true, "replies":true, "filename": "twitter_{author[name]}_{tweet_id}_{num}.{extension}", "directory":{ "quote_id != 0": ["x", "{quote_by}" , "quote-retweets"], "retweet_id != 0": ["x", "{user[name]}", "retweets" ], "" : ["x", "{user[name]}" ] }, "postprocessors":[ {"name": "metadata", "event": "post", "filename": "twitter_{author[name]}_{tweet_id}_main.json"} ] } } }

In 2. I have:

• gallery-dl.conf
• x.com_cookies (file type: Text Document)

My gallery-dl.conf looks like:
`{
"extractor":
{
"base-directory": "./gallery-dl/",
"parent-directory": false,
"postprocessors": null,
"archive": null,
"cookies": null,
"cookies-update": true,
"proxy": null,
"skip": true,

    "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0",
    "retries": 4,
    "timeout": 30.0,
    "verify": true,
    "fallback": true,

    "sleep": 0,
    "sleep-request": 0,
    "sleep-extractor": 0,

    "path-restrict": "auto",
    "path-replace": "_",
    "path-remove": "\\u0000-\\u001f\\u007f",
    "path-strip": "auto",
    "path-extended": true,

    "extension-map": {
        "jpeg": "jpg",
        "jpe" : "jpg",
        "jfif": "jpg",
        "jif" : "jpg",
        "jfi" : "jpg"
    },


    "artstation":
    {
        "external": false,
        "pro-first": true
    },
    "aryion":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null,
        "recursive": true
    },
    "bbc": {
        "width": 1920
    },
    "blogger":
    {
        "videos": true
    },
    "cyberdrop":
    {
        "domain": null
    },
    "danbooru":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null,
        "external": false,
        "metadata": false,
        "ugoira": false
    },
    "derpibooru":
    {
        "api-key": null,
        "filter": 56027
    },
    "deviantart":
    {
        "client-id": null,
        "client-secret": null,
        "refresh-token": null,

        "auto-watch": false,
        "auto-unwatch": false,
        "comments": false,
        "extra": false,
        "flat": true,
        "folders": false,
        "group": true,
        "include": "gallery",
        "journals": "html",
        "jwt": false,
        "mature": true,
        "metadata": false,
        "original": true,
        "pagination": "api",
        "public": true,
        "quality": 100,
        "wait-min": 0
    },
    "e621":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null
    },
    "exhentai":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null,
        "domain": "auto",
        "limits": true,
        "metadata": false,
        "original": true,
        "sleep-request": 5.0
    },
    "flickr":
    {
        "exif": false,
        "metadata": false,
        "size-max": null,
        "videos": true
    },
    "furaffinity":
    {
        "descriptions": "text",
        "external": false,
        "include": "gallery",
        "layout": "auto"
    },
    "gelbooru":
    {
        "api-key": null,
        "user-id": null
    },
    "gofile": {
        "api-token": null,
        "website-token": null
    },
    "hentaifoundry":
    {
        "include": "pictures"
    },
    "hitomi":
    {
        "format": "webp",
        "metadata": false
    },
    "idolcomplex":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null,
        "sleep-request": 5.0
    },
    "imagechest": {
        "access-token": null
    },
    "imgbb":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null
    },
    "imgur":
    {
        "mp4": true
    },
    "inkbunny":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null,
        "orderby": "create_datetime"
    },
    "instagram":
    {
        "api": "rest",
        "cookies": null,
        "include": "posts",
        "order-files": "asc",
        "order-posts": "asc",
        "previews": false,
        "sleep-request": [6.0, 12.0],
        "videos": true
    },
    "khinsider":
    {
        "format": "mp3"
    },
    "luscious":
    {
        "gif": false
    },
    "mangadex":
    {
        "api-server": "https://api.mangadex.org",
        "api-parameters": null,
        "lang": null,
        "ratings": ["safe", "suggestive", "erotica", "pornographic"]
    },
    "mangoxo":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null
    },
    "misskey": {
        "access-token": null,
        "renotes": false,
        "replies": true
    },
    "newgrounds":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null,
        "flash": true,
        "format": "original",
        "include": "art"
    },
    "nijie":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null,
        "include": "illustration,doujin"
    },
    "nitter": {
        "quoted": false,
        "retweets": false,
        "videos": true
    },
    "oauth":
    {
        "browser": true,
        "cache": true,
        "host": "localhost",
        "port": 6414
    },
    "paheal":
    {
        "metadata": false
    },
    "pillowfort":
    {
        "external": false,
        "inline": true,
        "reblogs": false
    },
    "pinterest":
    {
        "domain": "auto",
        "sections": true,
        "videos": true
    },
    "pixiv":
    {
        "refresh-token": null,
        "include": "artworks",
        "embeds": false,
        "metadata": false,
        "metadata-bookmark": false,
        "tags": "japanese",
        "ugoira": true
    },
    "reactor":
    {
        "gif": false,
        "sleep-request": 5.0
    },
    "reddit":
    {
        "client-id": null,
        "user-agent": null,
        "refresh-token": null,
        "comments": 0,
        "morecomments": false,
        "date-min": 0,
        "date-max": 253402210800,
        "date-format": "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S",
        "id-min": null,
        "id-max": null,
        "recursion": 0,
        "videos": true
    },
    "redgifs":
    {
        "format": ["hd", "sd", "gif"]
    },
    "sankaku":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null,
        "refresh": false
    },
    "sankakucomplex":
    {
        "embeds": false,
        "videos": true
    },
    "skeb":
    {
        "article": false,
        "filters": null,
        "sent-requests": false,
        "thumbnails": false
    },
    "smugmug":
    {
        "videos": true
    },
    "seiga":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null
    },
    "subscribestar":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null
    },
    "tsumino":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null
    },
    "tumblr":
    {
        "avatar": false,
        "external": false,
        "inline": true,
        "posts": "all",
        "offset": 0,
        "original": true,
        "reblogs": true
    },
    "twitter":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null,
        "cards": false,
        "conversations": false,
        "pinned": false,
        "quoted": false,
        "replies": true,
        "retweets": false,
        "strategy": null,
        "text-tweets": false,
        "twitpic": false,
        "unique": true,
        "users": "user",
        "videos": true
    },
    "unsplash":
    {
        "format": "raw"
    },
    "vsco":
    {
        "videos": true
    },
    "wallhaven":
    {
        "api-key": null,
        "metadata": false,
        "include": "uploads"
    },
    "weasyl":
    {
        "api-key": null,
        "metadata": false
    },
    "weibo":
    {
        "livephoto": true,
        "retweets": true,
        "videos": true
    },
    "ytdl":
    {
        "enabled": false,
        "format": null,
        "generic": true,
        "logging": true,
        "module": null,
        "raw-options": null
    },
    "zerochan":
    {
        "username": null,
        "password": null,
        "metadata": false
    },
    "booru":
    {
        "tags": false,
        "notes": false
    }
},

"downloader":
{
    "filesize-min": null,
    "filesize-max": null,
    "mtime": true,
    "part": true,
    "part-directory": null,
    "progress": 3.0,
    "rate": null,
    "retries": 4,
    "timeout": 30.0,
    "verify": true,

    "http":
    {
        "adjust-extensions": true,
        "chunk-size": 32768,
        "headers": null,
        "validate": true
    },

    "ytdl":
    {
        "format": null,
        "forward-cookies": false,
        "logging": true,
        "module": null,
        "outtmpl": null,
        "raw-options": null
    }
},

"output":
{
    "mode": "auto",
    "progress": true,
    "shorten": true,
    "ansi": false,
    "colors": {
        "success": "1;32",
        "skip"   : "2"
    },
    "skip": true,
    "log": "[{name}][{levelname}] {message}",
    "logfile": null,
    "unsupportedfile": null
},

"netrc": false

}`

Downloading an X.com account into 2. does not yield a publish date within the filename.

Do I just need to move the config.json into folder 2.? And likewise, would I have this line as such:
"cookies": ["C:\Users\redacted\gallery-dl\x.com_cookies.txt"],

For the record, originally I had my cookies file in location 1. but I got an error, so corrected it by moving that into the folder. Likewise, I was running into errors when I had my Cookies text file path in the location below, AND when I tried to say 'vivaldi' for my browser cookies to be used instead. So...

Right now, I scrape an X.com account with the command:
C:\Users\redacted\gallery-dl>gallery-dl --cookies x.com_cookies.txt URL

But I'd like not to have to include the --cookies part.

**Without moving the config.json file to folder 2. I receive the error:
C:\Users\redacted\gallery-dl>gallery-dl --cookies x.com_cookies.txt https://x.com/redacted [config][error] JSONDecodeError when loading 'C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming\gallery-dl\config.json': Invalid \escape: line 3 column 24 (char 43)

When I move the config.json file to folder 2., having installed the above line in the cookies section, and try it out, I get the following error:
C:\Users\redaced\gallery-dl>gallery-dl https://x.com/redacted [config][error] JSONDecodeError when loading 'C:\Users\redacted\gallery-dl\config.json': Invalid \escape: line 3 column 24 (char 43) [twitter][error] AuthorizationError: Login required**

So I will be undoing those changes...

Thank you for any assistance! And please remember: if you think something is common sense. For me, it probably isn't! Lol, so sorry!