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https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

A downloader for YouTube and many other places.

• A fork and improvement of youtube-dl

• Has it's own YouTube comment scraper, obsoleting youtube-comment-scraper

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• https://discord.com/invite/H5MNcFW63r

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• 2022-07-14 - 2022.06.29 on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
• 2022-06-30 - 2022.06.29 on Windows 10
• 2022-06-30 - Switched from youtube-dl

• 2022-06-30 - Switched from youtube-comment-scraper

Usage ∞

2022-06-30 - 2022.06.29 on Windows 10 this seemed to work:

yt-dlp.exe --audio-format  best --write-info-json --write-annotations  --write-all-thumbnails  --embed-thumbnail --all-subs  --embed-subs   --add-metadata   --output '%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s'  --format  299-dash+140-dash   --merge-output-format mp4 --write-comments "jNQXAC9IVRw"

This didn't seem to work, and hasn't been troubleshooted.

--output '%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s'

TODO ∞

• https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection

• Investigate if I need to fiddle with cookies again: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/vuatbt/fyi_google_removed_the_get_cookiestxt_extension/

Usage ∞

TODO - Solving HTTP Error 429 ∞

I can reproduce this when downloading a long list of subtitles [ 1 ] :

ERROR: Unable to download video subtitles for 'or': HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests

• https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/issues/158

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Not working:

• --sleep-subtitles 4

• TODO - Using cookies

TODO

• https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/4545
• https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/926

• https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/1014

Getting cookies ∞

For Chrome and variations like Brave and Edge[doesn't exist].

• TODO - F12 instructions

• https://github.com/dandv/convert-chrome-cookies-to-netscape-format

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dandv/convert-chrome-cookies-to-netscape-format/master/convert-cookies.js
• TODO - usage

TODO - Using cookies ∞

TODO

Getting cookies might be easier.

--cookies-from-browser brave:Profile\ name
--cookies-from-browser brave

Get the directory of your profile:
%LOCALAPPDATA%
brave://version/

e.g.

/mnt/c/Users/USERNAME/AppData/Local/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/User Data/PROFILE\ DIRECTORY

where

• USERNAME is whatever you log in as

• PROFILE\ DIRECTORY might simply be Default

FileNotFoundError: could not find brave cookies database in "/path/to/wherever"

doesn't fucking work..

programmers can check out their cookies.py

TODO - Downloading age restricted videos ∞

TODO - Using cookies

Redact content in the .json file ∞

• 455 - Redact formats in info json with an option

  • https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/455#issuecomment-1367741786

--parse-metadata "video::(?P<url>)"

--alias --minimal-info-json '--parse-metadata "video::(?P<formats>)" --parse-metadata "video::(?P<url>)" --parse-metadata "video::(?P<http_headers>)" --parse-metadata "video::(?P<automatic_captions>)" --parse-metadata "video::(?P<subtitles>)" --parse-metadata "video::(?P<thumbnails>)"'

Alternatives ∞

• youtube-dl

• https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc

  • As of 2021-09-19 last updated 2020-11-11

Last updated 2023-01-25 at 12:00:09

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