GitHub - thingsiplay/ytdl: Simple wrapper to yt-dlp with only a subset of options.
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Simple wrapper to yt-dlp with only a subset of options. - thingsiplay/ytdl

The terror continues…

10 days ago I posted the initial version of this script. Since then lot of changed and added. Here some of those changes since v0.1:

  • -h is now much more simple, to see full help use -H
  • -f to repackage to another container format, or -F to force re-encoding video content with a codec to any other format
  • -s and -b will operate on sponsors only, and -S and -B on complete list of SponsorBlock segments
  • similarly -e and -d will only embed and download only a few extra metadata and files, -E and -D does all extra files and data
  • new -R will download and name files in reverse order, with index starting at 1 for the bottom file, useful for playlists who add newest entry to top
  • by default all file names are simplified and sanitized a little bit, even if no option -r (for very strict) is used

My goal is to make the usage of yt-dlp itself easier with this script, without the need to study help, the manual and to write a configuration file and a script. And you don’t need to test it with various sources. It does not everything what yt-dlp offers, but most of the stuff in the way I like it.

git clone https://github.com/thingsiplay/ytdl
cd ytdl
chmod +x ytdl
./ytdl -h
  • thingsiplay@beehaw.orgOP
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    4 months ago

    You are 100% and completely convinced me. Right now I’m in the process of renaming the project and decided to rename the executable too. All your points are on point and is something I would probably say about other projects as well.

    As for why I was reluctant to change project name was not only the Github links, in example in the executable and documentation of older version people downloaded. But also the default ignore file I am using with the script, that is created and read/written at “~/.local/share/ytdl” . It will probably annoy people who already downloaded and using it; and I hate that its doing it. But better I do it now that later.

    So thank you for this suggestion and explanation.

    Edit: I’m going with yt-dlp-lemon , as in easy peasy, lemon squeezy. Probably not as descriptive as you hoped for, but I don’t think this is bad.