Naming format

[joca879]

Hi @tcely

Is it possible to have a media format variable that outputs this: [youtube2-"YOUTUBECHANNELID"] ?

I'm trying to make a custom media format with this but it doesn't let me... it only accepts variables... I don't see a variable for "youtube2" or "UCXXXXXXXXXXX" either.

This is what I was looking for "{source} [youtube2-UCceT51fkLh4wS8YNlzT_4zA-{yyyymm}]/{source_full} - {yyyy_mm_dd} - {title_full} [{key}].{ext}"

I'm using the ASS scanner and the YouTube agent to populate the videos in Plex, and I need to group the video files in folders by year-month, so that each folder has less videos and each time the YouTube agent searches for the metadata in plex, it only searches data for the itens on the folder that is changed, not all the folders of the channel, so that I don't overlap the limits of YouTube api calls.

How can I achieve this? Any suggestions?

[tcely]

We don't store the channel ID with the source at the moment. You'll need to add that to the directory path for the source yourself.

I don't use Plex, so I don't know what is required for that.

Typical I setup a source for a new channel with: <directory name>/channel

That way when I add a playlist from that same channel, I can use: <directory name>/playlists/<playlist directory name>

I typically also include year and month subdirectories as part of the media format. That prevents all of the files from being in the same directory. I can also add them individually to my libraries if I only care about videos from this year, for example.

Here is the media format I'm using for one of my sources:
{yyyy}/0{mm}/{yyyy_0mm_dd}_{title}_[{key}]_{vcodec}-{acodec}.{ext}

[joca879]

@tcely

Thanks for the quick answer.

I already have the youtube2 and UCXXX in the diretory name, that's what I had initially... and inside it I have all the media with the name format. The problem is that there are channels that have a lot of videos, and whenever there is a new video, plex scans that folder and the YouTube agent searches metadata for all the videos... so it reaches the Youtube api limits really fast.

If I create the year and month folders like you showed, the YouTube agent is not able to find the metadata.

Is there a way in the media format to include a custom text? I could insert in the media format manually the the text with "youtube2-UCxxxx", but it doesn't let me. Can I do it?

[tcely]

You can absolutely insert static text into the media format.

It's also worth considering if you can use the .info.json files with your plugin. Those are written by yt-dlp during the download process, when the source is configured to save them.
You can generally find anything you want to know about a video in those files without needing to hit the YouTube API.

[joca879]

@tcely

You can absolutely insert static text into the media format.

Ok. I've tried insert this in the media format box: {source} [youtube2-UCceT51fkLh4wS8YNlzT_4zA-{yyyymm}]/{source_full} - {yyyy_mm_dd} - {title_full} [{key}].{ext}.

It gives this error and doesn't let save the change:

How can I insert static text?