>>747947
do you need a tutorial on running or installing ytdlp for windows? if you dont want to fuck around with env variables you can add the exe's for ytdlp and ffmpeg into every folder you archive in and run them from the command window from that directory. if you can make it that far its very easy to use from the command line
-o is for filename naming patterns, i use "[%(upload_date)s]%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" for filenames like
>[20240317]KARAOKE_ CHATTING_ IDK BUT IT MIGHT BE DELETED TOMORROW 💗 【 3D FULL-BODY TRACKING _ UNARCHIVED _ 】-uM5IagjTURs.mp4
--write-subs downloads chat as .json
--write-thumbnail downloads the thumbnail
--write-comments for the comments
--write-description for the description
--write-info-json grabs all the metadata of the file if you care about any of it
--no-download skips the video file which is usefule if you just want to grab the comments, chat or thumbnail
--retries infinite is to retry forever, i use this only when my internet acts up and im going to bed or walking away
>yt-dlp -o "[%(upload_date)s]%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" --write-thumbnail --no-download CHANNELURL/streams
will download only the thumbnail of every stream
and
>yt-dlp -o "[%(upload_date)s]%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" --write-thumbnail --write-comments --write-description --write-subs CHANNELURL/streams
will download 5 files, the thumbnail, comments, description, livechat and the video file each following the same name pattern from -o
member videos/posts are annoying to grab because it requires your cookie in the netscape column-based format. i dont trust any browser plugin/extension that exports cookies and neither should anyone else.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#output-template-examples has some more examples on naming downloads