MX 19.4 xfce 64bit - yt-dlp - how to remove string in brackets, please?

Snugbug · 12-10-2021, 12:31 PM

Using youtube-dl with no options afterwards, I used to get the file with the file name, followed by its extension.

But now, with the successor of youtube-dl, called yt-dlp, using it alike, I'm getting a file with the file name, followed by some brackets like this [] and a string inside, according to the final section of the url of the wanted clip and then, there's the file extension.

How can I remove the brackets and the string inside, in order to have only the file name and its extension, like it used to be with youtube-dl, please?

shruggy · 12-10-2021, 12:41 PM

You can specify the output template with -o.

Snugbug · 12-10-2021, 04:14 PM

As far as I understand that guide, I have to add the string that I want to remove, manually, to each and every single download command.

But that's not what I had in mind, sorry, because since that string is different for each download, that's very uncomfortable.
What I'm asking for is how to remove these brackets with the string inside, automatically?

syg00 · 12-10-2021, 04:25 PM

Instead of just looking at the examples shruggy posted, page up to get to the start of the section, and start reading.

Snugbug · 12-10-2021, 05:03 PM

After reading this section, I still have no clue as for what to do to get rid of the brackets and the string, sorry.

Let's try it another way.

This is a script, I once created for youtube-dl, which used to work very well:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
echo " Download with youtube-dl "
echo "**************************"
echo 'Currently installed Version:'; youtube-dl --version
echo
echo If available, an update of youtube-dl will be performed.
echo

sudo youtube-dl -U
# sudo python3 -m pip install -U yt-dlp
echo

echo "Currently, target folder according to 'youtube-dl.conf' is :"
echo
sleep 1
echo "$(grep -v '#' /home/username/.config/youtube-dl.conf)"
# Note: There's the path to the target folder in the youtube-dl.conf.
sleep 2
clear

echo " Download with youtube-dl "
echo "**************************"
echo
echo
read -p "Please enter URL of wanted file: `echo $'\n> '`" a
echo
sleep 1

youtube-dl "${a}"
echo
sleep 2

read -n 1 -s -r -p "Hit any key to finish..."
echo
kill -9 $PPID

What I found out so far is that I have to replace

Code:

sudo youtube-dl -U

with

Code:

sudo python3 -m pip install -U yt-dlp

to make the update work for yt-dlp and to replace

Code:

youtube-dl "${a}"

with

Code:

yt-dlp "${a}"

to get the wanted file.

Now, I want to remove the brackets and the string, but unfortunately, I don't understand this cryptical stuff well enough to get the removal done.

boughtonp · 12-11-2021, 04:33 PM

The differences between yt-dlp and youtube-dl are described in the yt-dlp readme, along with mention of the option "--compat-options youtube-dl" to revert those changes.

Snugbug · 12-13-2021, 04:39 PM

The only section that I found, referring to the output template, is this

Quote:

The default output template is %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s. There is no real reason for this change. This was changed before yt-dlp was ever made public and now there are no plans to change it back to %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s. Instead, you may use --compat-options filename

but there's no information about how to revert something.

The only section that I found, referring to reverting something is this

Quote:

The default format selector is bv*+ba/b. This means that if a combined video + audio format that is better than the best video-only format is found, the former will be prefered. Use -f bv+ba/b or --compat-options format-spec to revert this

but it doesn't refer to the output template.

So I don't understand what you mean or what I have to do to get the old output template.

Could you please just tell me what exactly I have to do, instead of pointing me to some readme that I don't understand anyway?
I did read it several times, but still, I've got no clue about what to do, to get this fixed.

aus9 · 12-13-2021, 06:56 PM

@Snugbug

FWIW I am still using youtube-dl. Is there a feature of yt-dlp that you must use?

eg for mp3 I run...but I am sure there are smarter ways

Code:

youtube-dl  https://youtu.be/N_KB0Ow4fVo -x --audio-format mp3
[youtube] N_KB0Ow4fVo: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Dave Cousins Blue Angel The Strawbs-N_KB0Ow4fVo.webm
[download] 100% of 9.57MiB in 02:01
[ffmpeg] Destination: Dave Cousins Blue Angel The Strawbs-N_KB0Ow4fVo.mp3
Deleting original file Dave Cousins Blue Angel The Strawbs-N_KB0Ow4fVo.webm (pass -k to keep)

evo2 · 12-13-2021, 07:38 PM

Maybe I'm not understanding the problem, but the documentation looks pretty clear to me. Is the following what you want?

Code:

yt-dlp -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ'

Evo2.

boughtonp · 12-14-2021, 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snugbug

The only section that I found, referring to the output template, is this

Quote:

The default output template is %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s. There is no real reason for this change. This was changed before yt-dlp was ever made public and now there are no plans to change it back to %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s. Instead, you may use --compat-options filename

but there's no information about how to revert something.

Read the highlighted text.

Quote:

The only section that I found, referring to reverting something...

Aside from the first two, every bullet point in the "Differences in default behavior" section is referring to reverting/undoing/resetting an change in defaults that yt-dlp developers made.

Quote:

Could you please just tell me what exactly I have to do, instead of pointing me to some readme that I don't understand anyway?

In addition to linking to the documentation I provided the exact option you just need to make all non-bug yt-dlp behaviour the same as youtube-dl.

:|

If you don't want to type it every time, put it in a config file - that section includes an example of using a config file for changing the output filename.

0314R · 08-09-2023, 02:27 PM

20 months late, but you just gotta add this option:

--replace-in-metadata "title" " \(.*?\)" ""

you can leave out the question mark if you want greedy pattern matching instead of non-greedy, as explained here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re...ression-syntax