JSONDecodeError Help

[Aristarchus-IV]

I've been trying to figure out the errors it throws, but when I think I fix it, another one pops up. I've tried searching the web and the issues section here, but I am unable to fix my JSON problem. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Edit: I found this https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/wiki/config-file-outline#first-steps, and tried using the tools. But I am stuck on (image below) and cannot figure out what it wants. For the "colon", when I put them, it doesn't work. This is from VS code.

It also made me edit

"filename": "count > 1": "{username} - {date:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} - {post_shortcode} - {sidecar_media_id:?/_/}~{media_id}_{num}.{extension}", "" : "{username} - {date:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} - {post_shortcode} - {sidecar_media_id:?/_/}~{media_id}.{extension}"

to

"filename": "count > 1", "{username} - {date:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} - {post_shortcode} - {sidecar_media_id:?/_/}~{media_id}_{num}.{extension}": "" , "{username} - {date:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} - {post_shortcode} - {sidecar_media_id:?/_/}~{media_id}.{extension}"

Specifically,

(1) "count > 1": --> "count > 1",
(2) "" : --> "" ,
(3) .{extension}", --> .{extension}":

I'm not sure if this is right or not because I copied and pasted this from the owner on here (99% sure).

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Also,

• In the "postprocessors" section, I added the "directory" line, though I'm not sure if that is the appropriate place for it. I believe I've formatted everything else correctly (for the most part since I'm posting here).

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[ --verbose --simulate ]

% gallery-dl "https://www.instagram.com/manurios/" --verbose --simulate
[config][error] JSONDecodeError when loading '/Users/[REDACTED]/.config/gallery-dl/config.json': Expecting ':' delimiter: line 29 column 5 (char 1002)
[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.26.9
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.9.4 - macOS-10.16-x86_64-i386-64bit
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.31.0 - urllib3 1.26.18
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files []
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting SimulationJob for 'https://www.instagram.com/manurios/'
[instagram][debug] Using InstagramUserExtractor for 'https://www.instagram.com/manurios/'
[instagram][debug] Using InstagramPostsExtractor for 'https://www.instagram.com/manurios/posts/'
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.instagram.com:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://www.instagram.com:443 "GET /api/v1/users/web_profile_info/?username=manurios HTTP/1.1" 200 55595

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[Instagram Config]

{
"extractor":
{
"base-directory": "/Users/[REDACTED]/Applications/gallery-dl",
"parent-directory": false,
"cookies": ["firefox"],
"archive": "/Users/[REDACTED]/Applications/gallery-dl/-/download-archives/gallery-dl-archive.txt",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0",
"skip": true,
"sleep-429": 60,
"retries": 4,

"instagram":
{
"api": "rest",
"include": "all",
"order-files": "asc",
"order-posts": "asc",
"previews": true,
"sleep": [2.0, 10.0],
"sleep-request": [6.0, 12.0],
"videos": true,

"posts":
{
"directory": ["Instagram", "{username}", "Posts"],
"filename": "count > 1", "{username} - {date:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} - {post_shortcode} - {sidecar_media_id:?/_/}~{media_id}_{num}.{extension}":
""         , "{username} - {date:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} - {post_shortcode} - {sidecar_media_id:?/_/}~{media_id}.{extension}"
},
"reels":
{
"directory": ["Instagram", "{username}", "Reels"],
"filename": "{username} - {date:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} - {post_shortcode} - {media_id}.{extension}"
},
"tagged":
{
"directory": ["Instagram", "{tagged_username}", "Tagged"],
"filename": "count > 1", "{username} - {date:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} - {post_shortcode} - {sidecar_media_id:?/_/}~{media_id}_{num}.{extension}":
""         , "{username} - {date:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} - {post_shortcode} - {sidecar_media_id:?/_/}~{media_id}.{extension}"
},
"stories":
{
"directory": ["Instagram", "{username}", "Stories"],
"filename": "{username} - {date:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} - {post_shortcode} - {media_id}.{extension}"
},
"highlights":
{
"directory": ["Instagram", "{username}", "Highlights", "{highlight_title}"],
"filename": "{username} - {date:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} - {post_shortcode} - {media_id} - {post_id}.{extension}"
},
"avatar":
{
"directory": ["Instagram", "{username}", "Avatar"],
"filename": "{username} - {post_shortcode} - {media_id} - {owner_id}.{extension}"
},

"postprocessors": [
                {
"directory": ["Instagram", "{username}", "Metadata", "Posts"],
"name": "metadata",
"event": "post",
"filename": "{username} - {date:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} - {post_shortcode}.txt",

"mode": "custom",
"format": "{description}\n{embed[url]:?/\n/}"
},

}
}
}
}