[reddit] add 'videos' option

docs/configuration.rst

@@ -983,6 +983,21 @@ Description The ``refresh-token`` value you get from
 =========== =====
 
 
+extractor.reddit.videos
+-----------------------
+=========== =====
+Type        ``bool`` or ``string``
+Default     ``true``
+Description Control video download behavior.
+
+            * ``true``: Download videos and use `youtube-dl`_ to handle
+              HLS and DASH manifests
+            * ``"ytdl"``: Download videos and let `youtube-dl`_ handle all of
+              video extraction and download
+            * ``false``: Ignore videos
+=========== =====
+
+
 extractor.sankaku.wait-min & .wait-max
 --------------------------------------
 =========== =====

docs/gallery-dl.conf

@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@
             "id-min": "0",
             "id-max": "zik0zj",
             "recursion": 0,
+            "videos": true,
             "user-agent": "Python:gallery-dl:0.8.4 (by /u/mikf1)"
         },
         "sankaku":

gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py

@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ class RedditExtractor(Extractor):
         match_user = RedditUserExtractor.pattern.match
 
         parentdir = self.config("parent-directory")
+        videos = self.config("videos", True)
+
         submissions = self.submissions()
         visited = set()
         depth = 0
@@ -52,11 +54,22 @@ class RedditExtractor(Extractor):
                     if url.startswith("https://i.redd.it/"):
                         text.nameext_from_url(url, submission)
                         yield Message.Url, url, submission
+
                     elif submission["is_video"]:
-                        text.nameext_from_url(url, submission)
+                        if videos:
-                        yield Message.Url, "ytdl:" + url, submission
+                            text.nameext_from_url(url, submission)
+                            if videos == "ytdl":
+                                url = "https://www.reddit.com" + \
+                                    submission["permalink"]
+                            else:
+                                submission["_ytdl_extra"] = {
+                                    "title": submission["title"],
+                                }
+                            yield Message.Url, "ytdl:" + url, submission
+
                     elif not submission["is_self"]:
                         urls.append((url, submission))
+
                 elif parentdir:
                     yield Message.Directory, comments[0]