diff --git a/gallery_dl/job.py b/gallery_dl/job.py
index 6f6d64bc..0f40bb9c 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/job.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/job.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 # published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
 import sys
+import json
 import time
 import errno
 import logging
@@ -575,6 +576,38 @@ class UrlJob(Job):
             self._write_unsupported(url)
 
 
+class InfoJob(Job):
+    """Print extractor defaults and settings"""
+
+    def run(self):
+        ex = self.extractor
+        pm = self._print_multi
+        pc = self._print_config
+
+        if ex.basecategory:
+            pm("Category / Subcategory / Basecategory",
+               ex.category, ex.subcategory, ex.basecategory)
+        else:
+            pm("Category / Subcategory", ex.category, ex.subcategory)
+
+        pc("Filename format", "filename", ex.filename_fmt)
+        pc("Directory format", "directory", ex.directory_fmt)
+        pc("Request interval", "sleep-request", ex.request_interval)
+
+        return 0
+
+    def _print_multi(self, title, *values):
+        print(title, "\n  ", " / ".join(json.dumps(v) for v in values), sep="")
+
+    def _print_config(self, title, optname, value):
+        optval = self.extractor.config(optname, util.SENTINEL)
+        if optval is not util.SENTINEL:
+            print(title, "(custom):\n ", json.dumps(optval))
+            print(title, "(default):\n ", json.dumps(value))
+        elif value:
+            print(title, "(default):\n ", json.dumps(value))
+
+
 class DataJob(Job):
     """Collect extractor results and dump them"""
 
diff --git a/gallery_dl/option.py b/gallery_dl/option.py
index 0ca32aa6..60d911b9 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/option.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/option.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-# Copyright 2017-2020 Mike Fährmann
+# Copyright 2017-2021 Mike Fährmann
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
@@ -150,6 +150,11 @@ def build_parser():
         dest="jobtype", action="store_const", const=job.SimulationJob,
         help="Simulate data extraction; do not download anything",
     )
+    output.add_argument(
+        "-E", "--extractor-info",
+        dest="jobtype", action="store_const", const=job.InfoJob,
+        help="Print extractor defaults and settings",
+    )
     output.add_argument(
         "-K", "--list-keywords",
         dest="jobtype", action="store_const", const=job.KeywordJob,