gallery-dl script doesn't work with crontab or rc.local but works manualy

Question

I wrote a simple script that cycles through a file and grabs some links from a file to run through a program called gallery-dl. This script works fine if i run it manually but just wont work with crontab or rc.local, ive tried everything i could think of and have found that while the script does run it doesn't actually download anything like its supposed to. I tested this by having the script create a random directory which worked but the actual download doesn't work when the script is called automaticly but it does when the script is called manually, i dont understand why it wont work when called through crontab or rc.local.

inline=$(echo '/home/pi/automation/gallery-dl-auto') #automation input file
outline=$(echo '/home/pi/downloaded/') #where the files download
cd $outline
while read line; do
  gallery-dl $line;
  sed -i '1d' $inline
done < $inline```

Answer 1

This symptom (program works normally but not from cron) usually means the program depends on an environment variable that is set when you run normally but not set when run from cron.

In your cron job, add printenv | sort > /tmp/my-cron-env. Then, from the shell prompt, do printenv | sort | diff -u - /tmp/my-cron-env and see what's different. You may need to add some environment settings to your cron job.