How to set postprocessor to zip images from reddit to a cbz archive

[Miroslav-Cetojevic]

I can't quite figure out how to set up the postprocessor in a way that in the case of multiple images in a reddit post gallery-dl zips the images into a CBZ archive.

My settings:

"extractor": {
    "postprocessors": [
      {
          "name": "zip",
          "compression": "store",
          "extension": "cbz",
          "filter": "extension not in ('zip', 'rar')",
          "whitelist": ["reddit"]
      }
    ],

    "reddit": {
      "refresh-token": "random string",
      
      "directory": [],      
      "filename": "{id}-{num:>02}.{extension}"
    }

[Miroslav-Cetojevic]

I accidentally found how the postprocessor zip option works. Basically it treats the innermost folder of the destination path as the archive filename.

Example: if I write C:\Path\to\dest, the result will be C:\Path\to\dest.cbz.

So if I want to have the archive inside of the dest folder, I'll have to treat the archive's filename as the innermost folder: C:\Path\to\dest\my_archive which will get me my_archive.cbz inside of dest.

[mikf]

The zip post processor is very basic in its functionality.
It works well enough for what is was originally made for - manga chapters - but that's about it.

As you've found out, it doesn't have an option to specify the archive name directly and simply uses the last directory name + extension for that. It also doesn't update its archive path when the output directory changes. There's a lot of room for improvement to make it usable for the general case.