From 8796ad02bae6b7244b63848c6db911c9dff9161b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:12:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [bellazon] add 'order-posts' option (#8248)

---
 docs/configuration.rst           | 16 ++++++++++++++
 docs/gallery-dl.conf             |  3 ++-
 gallery_dl/extractor/bellazon.py | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 test/results/bellazon.py         |  1 +
 4 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index cd47dfa0..7825d071 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -1600,6 +1600,22 @@ Description
     ``image``, ``video``, ``mediacollection``, ``embed``, ``text``.
 
 
+extractor.bellazon.order-posts
+------------------------------
+Type
+    ``string``
+Default
+    ``"desc"``
+Description
+    Controls the order in which
+    posts of a ``thread`` are processed.
+
+    ``"asc"``
+        Ascending order (oldest first)
+    ``"desc"`` | ``"reverse"``
+        Descending order (newest first)
+
+
 extractor.bellazon.quoted
 -------------------------
 Type
diff --git a/docs/gallery-dl.conf b/docs/gallery-dl.conf
index 1ce8e9f2..5a2f73f5 100644
--- a/docs/gallery-dl.conf
+++ b/docs/gallery-dl.conf
@@ -156,7 +156,8 @@
         },
         "bellazon":
         {
-            "quoted": false
+            "order-posts": "desc",
+            "quoted"     : false
         },
         "bilibili":
         {
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/bellazon.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/bellazon.py
index cae69663..3a811926 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/bellazon.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/bellazon.py
@@ -91,6 +91,28 @@ class BellazonExtractor(Extractor):
             pnum += 1
             url = f"{base}/page/{pnum}/"
 
+    def _pagination_reverse(self, base, pnum=None):
+        base = f"{self.root}{base}"
+
+        url = f"{base}/page/9999/"  # force redirect to highest page number
+        with self.request(url) as response:
+            parts = response.url.rsplit("/", 3)
+            pnum = text.parse_int(parts[2]) if parts[1] == "page" else 1
+            page = response.text
+
+        while True:
+            yield page
+
+            pnum -= 1
+            if pnum > 1:
+                url = f"{base}/page/{pnum}/"
+            elif pnum == 1:
+                url = f"{base}/"
+            else:
+                return
+
+            page = self.request(url).text
+
     def _parse_thread(self, page):
         schema = self._extract_jsonld(page)
         author = schema["author"]
@@ -166,10 +188,22 @@ class BellazonThreadExtractor(BellazonExtractor):
     example = "https://www.bellazon.com/main/topic/123-SLUG/"
 
     def posts(self):
-        for page in self._pagination(*self.groups):
+        if (order := self.config("order-posts")) and \
+                order[0] not in ("d", "r"):
+            pages = self._pagination(*self.groups)
+            reverse = False
+        else:
+            pages = self._pagination_reverse(*self.groups)
+            reverse = True
+
+        for page in pages:
             if "thread" not in self.kwdict:
                 self.kwdict["thread"] = self._parse_thread(page)
-            for html in text.extract_iter(page, "<article ", "</article>"):
+            posts = text.extract_iter(page, "<article ", "</article>")
+            if reverse:
+                posts = list(posts)
+                posts.reverse()
+            for html in posts:
                 yield self._parse_post(html)
 
 
diff --git a/test/results/bellazon.py b/test/results/bellazon.py
index 82f56ce3..b340d01d 100644
--- a/test/results/bellazon.py
+++ b/test/results/bellazon.py
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ __tests__ = (
     "#url"     : "https://www.bellazon.com/main/topic/1774-zhang-ziyi/",
     "#class"   : bellazon.BellazonThreadExtractor,
     "#range"   : "1-5",
+    "#options" : {"prder-posts": "asc"},
     "#results" : (
         "http://img292.echo.cx/my.php?image=4moon011rk.jpg",
         "http://img294.echo.cx/my.php?image=heroclip3jb.jpg",