takes youtube video with chapters and downloads and splits into playlist based on the chapter timestamps

chapters_to_playlist.py

# https://www.github.com/telugu-boy/

import youtube_dl
import getopt
import sys
import os

# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obLq6k3clHo

ydl_opts = {
    "extractaudio": False,
}

helpstring = """

chapters_to_playlist.py [options] [url]

-x to extract audio only
-k to keep downloaded file
-o to specify working/output directory
-h to show this
"""

if __name__ == "__main__":
    opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "hxko:")
    keepfile = False
    createdirs = False
    providedURL = None

    #don't want anything happening during argument parsing except setting flags
    #for further processing. like creating dirs
    for opt, arg in opts:
        if '-x' == opt:
            ydl_opts['extractaudio'] = True
        if '-o' == opt:
            createdirs = True
        if '-k' == opt:
            keepfile = True
        if '-h' == opt:
            print(helpstring)
            exit()

    if createdirs:
        if not os.path.exists(arg):
            os.makedirs(arg)
        os.chdir(arg)
    
    if len(args) < 1:
        print("Need URL")
        exit()
    else:
        providedURL = args[0]
    
    ydl_opts['outtmpl'] = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "%(title)s.%(ext)s") 

    with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
        info_dict = ydl.extract_info(providedURL, download=False)
        
        if "chapters" not in info_dict or not info_dict["chapters"]:
            print("This video does not have chapters")
            exit()

        title = info_dict["title"]
        ext = info_dict["ext"]

        filename = f"{title}.{ext}"

        ydl.download([providedURL])

        for idx, chapter in enumerate(info_dict["chapters"]):
            start_time = chapter["start_time"]
            end_time = chapter["end_time"]
            chapter_title = chapter["title"]
            cmd = None
            if ydl_opts['extractaudio']:
                cmd = f"""ffmpeg -i "{title}.{ext}" -ss {start_time} -to {end_time} -map 0:a -acodec mp3 \"{idx}-{chapter_title}.mp3\""""
            else:
                cmd = f"""ffmpeg -i "{title}.{ext}" -ss {start_time} -to {end_time} -c copy \"{idx}-{chapter_title}.{ext}\""""
            os.system(cmd)

    if not keepfile:
        print("Deleting original. Pass -k to keep")
        os.remove(filename)

    print("Done")

How to change downloading resolution to 360p ?
How to change video format to mp4 ?

@mahadevan, those options are available as entries in ydl_opts. I will add CLI options later.

HELP. I am still a beginner in Python. I am getting this error msg - getopt.GetoptError: option --split not recognized

can someone explain how to use this, I am a beginner and I get the message
[{
"resource": "/c:/Users/Ioannis/Desktop/code/chapters_to_playlist.py",
"owner": "generated_diagnostic_collection_name#0",
"code": {
"value": "reportMissingImports",
"target": {
"$mid": 1,
"external": "https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/blob/main/docs/configuration.md#reportMissingImports",
"path": "/microsoft/pyright/blob/main/docs/configuration.md",
"scheme": "https",
"authority": "github.com",
"fragment": "reportMissingImports"
}
},
"severity": 4,
"message": "Import "youtube_dl" could not be resolved",
"source": "Pylance",
"startLineNumber": 3,
"startColumn": 8,
"endLineNumber": 3,
"endColumn": 18
}]

@Twinsheet313421 did you install youtube-dl as shown here?