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

Output from simple help:

$ ytdl -h
ytdl [options] [url...]

Simple wrapper to yt-dlp with only a subset of options.

options:
-h                show help and exit
-H                show all options, notes and exit
-m HEIGHT         max height
-f FORMAT         repack format
-I                no ignore file
-s                add chapter marks + recognize sponsors
-b                remove sponsored segments
-c                split file by chapters
-p                playlist mode
-a                audio mode
-d                download description files
-e                embed meta and chapters
-q                show filepath only
-x                skip download

Copyright © 2024 Tuncay D. https://github.com/thingsiplay/ytdl