yt-dlp.conf

yt-dlp.conf.md

yt-dlp.conf

yt-dlp automatically reads the yt-dlp.conf file from the following directory path:

C:\Users\YourUserName\yt-dlp.conf

yt-dlp documentation

reddit.com/r/youtubedl

-U

--output 'D:\Various Videos\%(extractor_key)s\%(id)s\%(title)s (%(extractor_key)s, %(id)s, %(width)sx%(height)s, %(fps)s).%(ext)s'

--downloader aria2c

--ignore-errors

--sub-lang en

--write-auto-sub

--sub-format vtt

--add-metadata

--write-info-json

--write-description

--write-annotation

--write-all-thumbnails

--user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'

--exec "organize_yt-dlp_downloaded_thumbnails.bat {}"

Argument	Description
-U	Update yt-dlp to the latest version.
--output '...'	Set the output directory and filename format for downloaded files.
--downloader aria2c	Use aria2c as the external downloader.
--ignore-errors	Continue on download errors.
--sub-lang en	Download English subtitles.
--write-auto-sub	Download automatically generated subtitles.
--sub-format vtt	Specify the subtitle format as VTT.
--add-metadata	Embed video metadata into the file.
--write-info-json	Write video metadata to a separate JSON file.
--write-description	Save the video description to a file.
--write-annotation	Download video annotations.
--write-all-thumbnails	Download all available thumbnails of the video.
--user-agent '...'	Set a specific user agent for the downloader.
--exec "..."	Execute a specified batch file after the download is complete.

organize_yt-dlp_downloaded_thumbnails.bat

Add the directory path for this file to the Windows Path,
so that it can be accessed via command line for yt-dlp to
find it when it is called in the yt-dlp.conf file.

@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

REM The first argument is the full path of the downloaded video
SET "downloadPath=%~1"

REM Get the directory of the downloaded video without the filename
FOR %%i IN ("%downloadPath%") DO SET "downloadDir=%%~dpi"

REM Remove trailing backslash
SET "downloadDir=!downloadDir:~0,-1!"

REM Define the jpg and webp directories
SET "jpgDir=!downloadDir!\img\jpg"
SET "webpDir=!downloadDir!\img\webp"

REM Create jpg and webp directories if they don't exist
IF NOT EXIST "!jpgDir!" MKDIR "!jpgDir!"
IF NOT EXIST "!webpDir!" MKDIR "!webpDir!"

REM Use robocopy to move the .jpg and .webpfiles.
robocopy "!downloadDir!" "!jpgDir!" *.jpg /MOV /NJH /NJS /NDL /NFL
robocopy "!downloadDir!" "!webpDir!" *.webp /MOV /NJH /NJS /NDL /NFL

ENDLOCAL

Line of Code	Explanation
@echo off	Disables the echoing of commands in the console, making the script output cleaner.
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION	Enables delayed expansion, which allows for the dynamic use of variables within loops or code blocks.
SET "downloadPath=%~1"	Assigns the first script argument (the full path of the downloaded video) to the variable downloadPath.
FOR %%i IN ("%downloadPath%") DO SET "downloadDir=%%~dpi"	Extracts and sets the directory path of the downloaded video, without the filename, to downloadDir.
SET "downloadDir=!downloadDir:~0,-1!"	Removes the trailing backslash from the downloadDir path.
SET "jpgDir=!downloadDir!\img\jpg"	Sets the path for the jpg directory, adding \img\jpg to the downloadDir path.
SET "webpDir=!downloadDir!\img\webp"	Sets the path for the webp directory, adding \img\webp to the downloadDir path.
IF NOT EXIST "!jpgDir!" MKDIR "!jpgDir!"	Creates the jpg directory if it doesn't already exist.
IF NOT EXIST "!webpDir!" MKDIR "!webpDir!"	Creates the webp directory if it doesn't already exist.
robocopy "!downloadDir!" "!jpgDir!" *.jpg /MOV /NJH /NJS /NDL /NFL	Moves all jpg files from downloadDir to jpgDir, suppressing various output messages.
robocopy "!downloadDir!" "!webpDir!" *.webp /MOV /NJH /NJS /NDL /NFL	Moves all webp files from downloadDir to webpDir, suppressing various output messages.
ENDLOCAL	Ends the local environment changes, restoring any changes made to the environment variables.