Turning on "--keep-dirs" gives no output

[DesBw]

I am trying on the command line. Turning on the "--keep-dirs" option seems to stop trafilatura from extracting (fetching).

trafilatura -i links/file-with-links.txt --output-dir textOut <-- produces an output (as expected).
But, trafilatura -i links/file-with-links.txt --keep-dirs --output-dir textOut doesn't produce anything.

I am using version 1.12.2 on the mac with python 3.13.

[DesBw]

The same result with version 2.0.

[adbar]

Your command just writes a file named .txt in the target directory. --keep-dirs is useless if you download files from the internet, there are no directory to keep. It is best used with data already available on disk.

[DesBw]

I see. I was hopping it would help with the file naming even there is no directory to keep.
Thank you for the clarification.
But, I think it should not block the extraction even if it doesn't do anything. A little tweaking of the code might me useful so that the fetching will proceed while the option is ignored. Alternatively, a little disclaimer on the user manual can help the user not to use the option for crawling.