to switch between update channels (stable or dev (alias nightly & master))
or to install a specific version
Examples:
--update-to dev
--update-to dev@2024.05.25
--update-to v1.25.2
currently causing errors in the setup phase:
Error: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pip
Error: No matching distribution found for pip
Error: The process '/usr/bin/bash' failed with exit code 1
e.g. when 'browser' is set to a non-empty value and gallery-dl creates
its own SSLContext instance instead of using requests' and urllib3's
defaults.
urllib3 disables this option for its default contexts,
since it does this check on its own.
Fixes "ValueError: Cannot set verify_mode to CERT_NONE when
check_hostname is enabled" when using --no-check-certificate.
(#3614, #4891, #5576)
When reading cookies from the browser, the user is able to give either just the browser name, or also provide profile/container information.
If an exact profile is provided, there is no need to find the latest profile with `os.walk` which is very expensive.
This change optimizes that case and the performance increase is significant (~8 sec to 0.6 sec).
```
$ time gallery-dl --config-ignore -d . -D . --cookies-from-browser FIREFOX https://imgur.com/OO4UNqJ
[cookies][info] Extracted 16 cookies from Firefox
./imgur_OO4UNqJ.jpg
real 0m8.429s
user 0m0.216s
sys 0m0.431s
$ time gallery-dl --config-ignore -d . -D . --cookies-from-browser FIREFOX:bgamf5r6.default-release https://imgur.com/OO4UNqJ
[cookies][info] Extracted 16 cookies from Firefox
./imgur_OO4UNqJ.jpg
real 0m0.456s
user 0m0.183s
sys 0m0.011s
$ gallery-dl --version
1.26.9
```
don't parse fields starting with '
this disables the ability to directly apply […] to '…' literals,
but that's not really useful anyway and can still be done with _lit