Honor sort parameter in youtube channel video listing URLs

[anohren]

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When listing a Youtube channel's entire video catalog using the "Videos" tab, there's the option to sort them by date in descending (newest first) or ascending (oldest first) order. This is reflected in the URL as the sort= parameter, e.g. sort=da which I assume means "date ascending". When using a URL with this parameter in youtube-dl, the parameter seems to be ignored.

Unlike #2405 this request doesn't ask for an option to sort the results explicitly, just to honor the parameter when present in the URL, whether optionally or by default.

The benefit for users would be that if they're using youtube-dl indirectly -- e.g. built into a media player -- and are unable to directly pass options to it, they can still control the ordering of the result by way of the URL and web UI. The results reflect the URL more accurately.

How I tested it:

• Go to complete video listing of a youtube channel
• Sort videos by oldest first
• Copy the url
• List with youtube-dl --get-title "https://www.youtube.com/user/msadaghd/videos?sort=da&view=0&flow=grid"

Expected behavior

The oldest video is listed first.

Actual behavior

The most recent video is listed first.

Example URL

ElectroBOOM sorted by date in ascending order:

https://www.youtube.com/user/msadaghd/videos?sort=da&view=0&flow=grid

[ealgase]

The current way the channel extractor works is it finds the channel's playlist (ID is just the channel ID with UC replaced with UU). This would require significant modification to the channel extractor.

[anohren]

Thanks for the insights and clarification of potential obstacles. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with channel IDs or where they appear so I don't know how to use that to test anything out at the moment.

I was hoping that there would be some way to enable the -- not too uncommon, in my opinion -- use case of listing all channel videos chronologically without having to conditionally set an option like --playlist-reverse depending on whether the URL points to a youtube channel or not. Sounds like it's not worth the effort though.

[ealgase]

Your use case is definitely useful, I was just mentioning the reason why it's not easy to implement.