gallery-dl | line program to download image galleries | Download Utils library

BACKGROUND: Have the following code. Lines 5 & 6 are the most important here:

@echo off

setlocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion

pushd "%~dp0" || exit /B

move /Y "Folder2.jpg" "Folder.jpg"

This line 5 for %%I in (.) do set "FOLDER=%%~nxI"

This line 6 "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\gallery-dl\gallery-dl.exe" -d "U:\11Web\gallery-dl" --download-archive "%~dp0zzzGDB.sqlite3" "https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/%FOLDER%/illustrations"

if not errorlevel 1 if exist "zzzGDB.sqlite3" del "Folder.jpg"

popd

endlocal

In Windows Explorer I create a folder (for example) named "18604150". Any folders I create will have a folder name of varying lengths. The code above is in a .bat file within that folder. Upon executing the code, line 5 assigns folder name "18604150" to the variable and line 6 inserts/calls it as part of the hyperlink:

https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/%FOLDER%/illustrations

equates to

https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/18604150/illustrations

All is well.

PROBLEM: I want to be able to ALWAYS name folders as with the aforementioned numerical string at the beginning but IN SOME CASES also manually append artist name and/or other details to the folder name. Problem is I need to do this without "breaking" the variable and making it unusable for the hyperlink. Folder names could take on many shapes but will always begin with an unbroken first string of numbers. Examples:

18604150 -59 Bob Marley-

4839 Dan the Man

19374759394727 Scooby Snack 43443

I need to pare the variable down to only the digits left of any first SPACE, when present.

18604150

4839

19374759394727

I'm guessing whatever the solution will likely have to be in Line 5, but I do not know what this would look like.

for %%I in (.) do set "FOLDER=%%~nxI"

Background: OS: win10. A single root folder: "U:\11Web\gallery-dl".

Within the root I have 1400+ sub-folders (there are no sub-folders beneath those (and never will be)). (There are also no individual/extraneous files in root (and never will be)).

Each sub-folder has its own .bat file, aGallery-dl.bat.

This question is related to Test IF file exist, ELSE xcopy these two files.

Background: On occasion I choose to run aGallery-dl.bat in a given folder (just one in each of 100's of folders). It first deletes Folder.jpg then renames Folder2.jpg to Folder.jpg. This has the effect of a red X being replaced by a yellow ! when viewing the folder with parent folder selected in File Explorer. Secondly, it calls gallery-dl.exe. I use going from red X to yellow ! to let me know I've run aGallery-dl.bat at least once. If aGallery-dl.bat completes successfully, it finally deletes the Folder.jpg (currently yellow !), and now the representative contents of the folder (usually DeviantArt .jpg's) are visible. All is well.

Morning all.

So I've been up hours trying to cobble together -a variety of replies to other posts- into my own code in order to see if I could get something usable. No-go. I'm sufficiently lost in the sauce that I've now got to ask for some help from you.

Background: OS: Windows 10 I use the program text2folders.exe to create 20-30 new folders on a secondary drive every night. Primarily, I have a base file "aGallery-dl.bat" that I populate each folder with using an xcopy batch file. Secondarily, from time to time I update the source file "aGallery-dl.bat" using the same xcopy and this overwrites the older target file, populating all folders with the newest "aGallery-dl.bat" (whether they need it or not). All is well.