From 85cd3cdb5964f196799d596628dab18e5606fe02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xerbo <xerbo@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:38:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add option for a seperate meta directory

---
 README.md         |  4 +++-
 furaffinity-dl.py | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 26a4cb6..b611d18 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ furaffinity-dl has only been tested only on Linux, however it should also work o
 ## Usage
 
 ```
-usage: furaffinity-dl.py [-h] [--output OUTPUT] [--cookies COOKIES] [--ua UA] [--start START] [--dont-redownload] [--interval INTERVAL] [category] [username]
+usage: furaffinity-dl.py [-h] [--output OUTPUT] [--cookies COOKIES] [--ua UA] [--start START] [--dont-redownload] [--interval INTERVAL] [--metadir METADIR] [category] [username]
 
 Downloads the entire gallery/scraps/favorites of a furaffinity user
 
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ optional arguments:
                         Don't redownload files that have already been downloaded
   --interval INTERVAL, -i INTERVAL
                         delay between downloading pages
+  --metadir METADIR, -m METADIR
+                        directory to put meta files in
 
 Examples:
  python3 furaffinity-dl.py gallery koul
diff --git a/furaffinity-dl.py b/furaffinity-dl.py
index 87c28fe..83f1fe3 100755
--- a/furaffinity-dl.py
+++ b/furaffinity-dl.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ parser.add_argument('--ua', '-u', dest='ua', type=str, default='Mozilla/5.0 (Win
 parser.add_argument('--start', '-s', dest='start', type=str, default=1, help="page number to start from")
 parser.add_argument('--dont-redownload', '-d', const='dont_redownload', action='store_const', help="Don't redownload files that have already been downloaded")
 parser.add_argument('--interval', '-i', dest='interval', type=float, default=0, help="delay between downloading pages")
-
+parser.add_argument('--metadir', '-m', dest='metadir', type=str, default=None, help="directory to put meta files in")
 
 args = parser.parse_args()
 if args.username is None:
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ if args.username is None:
 # Create output directory if it doesn't exist
 if args.output != '.':
     os.makedirs(args.output, exist_ok=True)
+    
+if args.metadir == None:
+    args.metadir = args.output
+else:
+    os.makedirs(args.metadir, exist_ok=True)
+
 
 # Check validity of category
 valid_categories = ['gallery', 'favorites', 'scraps']
@@ -152,7 +158,7 @@ def download(path):
         return True
 
     # Write a UTF-8 encoded JSON file for metadata
-    with open(os.path.join(args.output, '{}.json'.format(filename)), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+    with open(os.path.join(args.metadir, '{}.json'.format(filename)), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
         json.dump(data, f, ensure_ascii=False, indent=4)
 
     return True