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minus-squareB_DL@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·12 hours agoI’m new to yt-dlp. Care to share your flags? I’m a little confused on which ones I actually need.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·edit-212 hours agoI mean, you don’t need anything; it’ll work with no flags. I have these: $ cat ~/.config/yt-dlp/config --embed-subs --embed-metadata --embed-chapters --embed-thumbnail --sponsorblock-mark=all $ That’ll just embed some useful metadata in the file.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-28 hours agoNote that subtitles doesn’t include automatic subtitles. For that you have to do --write-auto-subs in conjunction
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-28 hours agoThanks. EDIT: There isn’t an --embed-auto-subs, but there is a --write-auto-subs.
minus-squareOwlPaste@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours agoI like https://github.com/ArabCoders/ytptube gui. Only started using it yesterday, so far for indovidual videos. However it looks like it can also watch new videos being uploaded, thought not tried it myself. Use docker compose for quick deployment
minus-squareSpicyTaint@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-212 hours agoI’m a filthy Windows user that’s too lazy to migrate my main PC to Fedora. > Path\to\yt-dlp.exe -P <target directory> <URL> Multiple URLs can be separated by spaces. Put any URLs with ampersands in quotes or remove the ampersand and following arguments. You can find a list of all the arguments on the yt-dlp github page
I’m new to yt-dlp. Care to share your flags? I’m a little confused on which ones I actually need.
I mean, you don’t need anything; it’ll work with no flags. I have these:
That’ll just embed some useful metadata in the file.
Note that subtitles doesn’t include automatic subtitles. For that you have to do --write-auto-subs in conjunction
Thanks.
EDIT: There isn’t an
--embed-auto-subs, but there is a--write-auto-subs.Fixed thanks.
I like https://github.com/ArabCoders/ytptube gui. Only started using it yesterday, so far for indovidual videos. However it looks like it can also watch new videos being uploaded, thought not tried it myself.
Use docker compose for quick deployment
I’m a filthy Windows user that’s too lazy to migrate my main PC to Fedora.
> Path\to\yt-dlp.exe -P <target directory> <URL>Multiple URLs can be separated by spaces. Put any URLs with ampersands in quotes or remove the ampersand and following arguments.
You can find a list of all the arguments on the yt-dlp github page
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