[weibo] When downloading a GIF, an MP4 file was downloaded instead.

[vindia9]

Thanks to gallery-dl, I can save my favorite pictures conveniently and efficiently.

I encountered a strange problem when downloading pictures from a Weibo album.
When I download the album, all GIF files are saved as small-sized MP4 files.

I've looked through the documentation and searched in the issues, but still can't find how to solve this problem.
How should I configure it to download the correct GIF files?

This is the download command I used:
gallery-dl -o headers.Referer=https://weibo.com/ https://weibo.com/u/7776232700?tabtype=album

Thanks

[kattjevfel]

Do you actually get a .gif file when downloading directly from the site? When I try it from here I do indeed get mp4's, so it appears the site encodes all gifs as mp4's just like twitter and many other social media sites.

[mikf]

Disable videos (-o videos=0)
Not sure why I implemented it that way, though: 73f673e.

[vindia9]

Do you actually get a .gif file when downloading directly from the site? When I try it from here I do indeed get mp4's, so it appears the site encodes all gifs as mp4's just like twitter and many other social media sites.

I found that GIF images on Weibo are indeed displayed in MP4 format, and can only be opened in GIF format when you click "View Original Image".

[vindia9]

Disable videos (-o videos=0) Not sure why I implemented it that way, though: 73f673e.

Thank you. Running with -o videos=0 now correctly downloads the gif file.

This modification seems to be that when the image type is 'gif' and the video retrieval is allowed, the video link for 'gif' will be obtained. It might have been discovered at that time that Weibo outputs gif images in the form of videos.

[mikf]

Added a gifs option (c83d0a1).

By default, without -o videos=0, GIFs are now downloaded as such.
Set gifs to "video" to have them downloaded as MP4 like before.