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[yt-dlp or compatible] What are your favorite/best configuration tweaks? (piefed.zip)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Naked self-interest disclaimer: I want the best config for the --output option, one that sorts downloads into folders, respects playlist order etc., and never ever displays the string NA, no matter which extractor is used (I mostly use youtube and bandcamp).

edit: here's my own:

-S res:720  
--embed-metadata  
--embed-thumbnail  

# maybe that'll speed things up  
--concurrent-fragments 3  
--buffer-size 16k  
#  

--output "%(channel,playlist_channel,uploader,creator)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index,playlist_autonumber,video_autonumber,autonumber)03d %(display_id,title,id)s (%(duration_string|_)s).%(ext)s"  

--sleep-subtitles 1  
--sub-langs "en.*,de.*,fi.*"  
--embed-subs

Any suggestions on improving --output...

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[–] heliotrope@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

--cookies /path/to/cookies.txt
--js-runtimes quickjs

[–] heisenberg@beehaw.org 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Any benefits of using quickjs as runtime?

[–] heliotrope@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

It doesn't contain AI-generated code (unlike deno, Node, and bun); or at least, it didn't the last time I checked.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

--cookies FILE
            Netscape formatted file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in

Does that mean this file will populate itself? Is there any advantage to storing that?

[–] alanceil@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's useful for --mark-watched , you'd populate it with --cookies-from-browser firefox --cookies /tmp/cookies.txt. I managed to get an account banned for doing that, so use with caution.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

All this is about being logged into a (youtube) account, yes?

[–] alanceil@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Used in converting videos to podcast episodes using dir2cast:

--force-ipv6 #use with net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr = 2
--ffmpeg-location "~/src/FFmpeg" #selfcompiled ffmpeg with he-aac support
#convert to he-aac (v1, for music bed compatibility) and filter mic noise:
--exec "~/src/FFmpeg/ffmpeg -y -i %(filepath)q -af afftdn=nf=-25,highpass=f=100 -c:a libfdk_aac -profile:a aac_he -b:a 64k -ar 44100 -c:v copy -disposition:v attached_pic -map_metadata 0 -map_chapters 0 %(filepath)q.filtered.m4a && mv %(filepath)q.filtered.m4a %(filepath)q" 
--js-runtimes quickjs #for solving challenges
--remote-components ejs:github #for updates on how to solve the challenges
--extract-audio 
--audio-format m4a #best compatibility with dir2cast & overcast
--embed-thumbnail
--embed-metadata
--embed-chapters
--no-progress #this thing runs as a systemd timer service, prevent logspam
--paths /tmp/ytdlp #no unnecessary writes to storage
--sponsorblock-remove default #remove in-video ads
#only download the newest video from a channel at most 1 month old:
--break-on-existing
--break-on-reject
--dateafter now-1month
--download-archive ~/var/downloaded.ytdlp

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nice. It's basically a podcast app now.

FWIW

remote-components ejs:github is the default anyhow (unless you obtain your ty-dlp in weird ways)
embed-chapters is already contained in embed-metadata

[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

I use Nushell as my CLI shell, and I set up aliases/commands, so now I use dl, dl firefox, dl opus firefox etc.

It also helps in remembering or looking up what the syntax to include chapters, sponsorblock sections, or for downloading only a timeframe arguments and synax is.