Playlist Description Character Limit

[undaunt]

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Question

Is there a character limit on the playlist specific JSON file for the description field? I'm wondering because long descriptions from episode files appear to be created fine, such as if I open the episode 1 JSON for this playlist:

PLz3Be--ot61Mvmms68yBEhX6KrzPrqxsW

"Troy Lavallee and Matthew Capodicasa of The Glass Cannon Network sit down to talk about Matthew's upcoming character in their soon to be released #StarfinderRPG #DeadSuns podcast - Androids & Aliens!\n\nhttp://www.glasscannonpodcast.com"

However. if I open the channel's playlist JSON (which appears to be downloaded in the same way as the playlist JSON, except the 'uploader' is null) the description field is cut off with an ellipsis.

It should be:

In the spirit of old school Dungeons and Dragons, a collection of five super-nerds (Joe O'Brien, Grant Berger, Matthew Capodicasa, Skid Maher, and Gamemaster Troy Lavallee) emerge blinking from their parents' basements to engage in an Actual Play campaign of Paizo's epic new adventure path, Giantslayer! Foes will be vanquished, beers will be dranken, and characters will almost certainly f**cking die.

Now you can watch these same idiots play video games on this YouTube channel!

Become a supporter of the podcast at our Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/glasscannon
You can help us unlock goals for the future while unlocking fun GCP exclusive rewards for yourself!

but is cut off after "Gamemaster" as shown below in the channel playlist. Additional json's for reference.

Channel Playlist

{
  "_type": "playlist",
  "id": "TheGlassCannon",
  "title": "The Glass Cannon Network",
  "description": "In the spirit of old school Dungeons and Dragons, a collection of five super-nerds (Joe O'Brien, Grant Berger, Matthew Capodicasa, Skid Maher, and Gamemaster...",
  "extractor": "youtube:tab",
  "webpage_url": "https://www.youtube.com/TheGlassCannon/playlists",
  "duration_string": null,
  "webpage_url_basename": "playlists",
  "extractor_key": "YoutubeTab"
}

Regular Playlist

{
  "_type": "playlist",
  "id": "PLz3Be--ot61Mvmms68yBEhX6KrzPrqxsW",
  "title": "Dead Suns Character Intros",
  "uploader": "The Glass Cannon Network",
  "uploader_id": "UC83CJFLyDe72XgkKBd5a9IA",
  "uploader_url": "https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGlassCannon",
  "extractor": "youtube:tab",
  "webpage_url": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz3Be--ot61Mvmms68yBEhX6KrzPrqxsW",
  "duration_string": null,
  "webpage_url_basename": "playlist",
  "extractor_key": "YoutubeTab"
}

Snippet of episode 1 from playlist

{
  "id": "tO68f7aiwOA",
  "uploader": "The Glass Cannon Network",
  "uploader_id": "UC83CJFLyDe72XgkKBd5a9IA",
  "uploader_url": "http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC83CJFLyDe72XgkKBd5a9IA",
  "channel_id": "UC83CJFLyDe72XgkKBd5a9IA",
  "channel_url": "http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC83CJFLyDe72XgkKBd5a9IA",
  "upload_date": "20180418",
  "license": null,
  "creator": null,
  "title": "Dead Suns Character Introduction with Troy and Matthew",
  "alt_title": null,
  "description": "Troy Lavallee and Matthew Capodicasa of The Glass Cannon Network sit down to talk about Matthew's upcoming character in their soon to be released #StarfinderRPG #DeadSuns podcast - Androids & Aliens!\n\nhttp://www.glasscannonpodcast.com",

[pukkandan]

I am trying to expand the playlist metadata ro contain more fields such as thumbnail, likes etc. I will check if it is possible to fix this and #48 when I work on that.

[pukkandan]

Check out the latest master.

The thumbnail extraction for playlists will sometimes fail, but honestly, I am not very interested in fixing it

Playlist

{
  "_type": "playlist",
  "uploader": "pukkandan",
  "uploader_id": "UCKcqXmCcyqnhgpA5P0oHH_Q",
  "uploader_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKcqXmCcyqnhgpA5P0oHH_Q",
  "thumbnails": [
    {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/img/no_thumbnail.jpg",
      "width": 120,
      "height": 90
    },
    {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/img/no_thumbnail.jpg",
      "width": 320,
      "height": 180
    },
    {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/img/no_thumbnail.jpg",
      "width": 480,
      "height": 360
    }
  ],
  "tags": [],
  "channel": "pukkandan",
  "channel_id": "UCKcqXmCcyqnhgpA5P0oHH_Q",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKcqXmCcyqnhgpA5P0oHH_Q",
  "id": "PLx-_-Kk4c89rJQdvDiI_EOstdo4Os4Zjh",
  "title": "test",
  "description": "Empty playlist with very long description for testing yt-dlp. \n\nqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty\n\nDONE",
  "extractor": "youtube:tab",
  "webpage_url": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx-_-Kk4c89rJQdvDiI_EOstdo4Os4Zjh",
  "duration_string": null,  // Will be removed by PR #45
  "webpage_url_basename": "playlist",
  "extractor_key": "YoutubeTab"
}

Channel

{
  "_type": "playlist",
  "uploader": "The Glass Cannon Network",
  "uploader_id": "UC83CJFLyDe72XgkKBd5a9IA",
  "uploader_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC83CJFLyDe72XgkKBd5a9IA",
  "thumbnails": [
    {
      "url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AAUvwnhPOln7N6iokDhmfJV_ok_ahFZJ0FX-uCDgf5i_lg=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
      "width": 900,
      "height": 900
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "pathfinderrpg",
    "starfinderrpg",
    "dnd",
    "dungeonsanddragons",
    "dandd",
    "tabletoprpg",
    "ttrpg",
    "troylavallee",
    "joeobrien",
    "skidmaher",
    "grantberger",
    "matthewcapodicasa"
  ],
  "channel": "The Glass Cannon Network",
  "channel_id": "UC83CJFLyDe72XgkKBd5a9IA",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC83CJFLyDe72XgkKBd5a9IA",
  "id": "UC83CJFLyDe72XgkKBd5a9IA",
  "title": "The Glass Cannon Network - Playlists",
  "description": "In the spirit of old school Dungeons and Dragons, a collection of five super-nerds (Joe O'Brien, Grant Berger, Matthew Capodicasa, Skid Maher, and Gamemaster Troy Lavallee) emerge blinking from their parents' basements to engage in an Actual Play campaign of Paizo's epic new adventure path, Giantslayer! Foes will be vanquished, beers will be dranken, and characters will almost certainly f**cking die.\n\nNow you can watch these same idiots play video games on this YouTube channel!\n\nBecome a supporter of the podcast at our Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/glasscannon\nYou can help us unlock goals for the future while unlocking fun GCP exclusive rewards for yourself!",
  "extractor": "youtube:tab",
  "webpage_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC83CJFLyDe72XgkKBd5a9IA/playlists",
  "duration_string": null, // Will be removed by PR #45
  "webpage_url_basename": "playlists",
  "extractor_key": "YoutubeTab"
}

[undaunt]

I'm checking this out right now, looks awesome. I'm looking at episode/playlist/channel level JSONs from a playlist URL call and episode/channel from a channel URL call. One thing that jumped out right out of the gate is episode 001's JSON file pulls some crazy format information and created a 943KB file.

EDIT: Must just be a weird episode, disregard. Will continue to test.

[pukkandan]

I haven't touched video metadata (except adding back the channel field which has been broken for a while). So the huge format information is not related to this patch. The patch focuses on playlist/channel data

[pukkandan]

Close the issues once you have confirmed all data is being extracted correctly

[undaunt]

Length looks great!