Type

[davidhedlund]

How do I define "type" (see HTML "data-context-item-type" at youtube.com) with youtube-dl (eg "video", "playlist", etc)?

[phihag]

I am not aware of any treatment of this property in youtube-dl. youtube-dl strives to download videos, not get every conceivable property from the YouTube site. Most likely, you are suffering from an XY problem. An XY problem can be solved by providing context.

[davidhedlund]

On 2014-01-22 22:26, Philipp Hagemeister wrote:

I am not aware of any treatment of this property in youtube-dl.
youtube-dl strives to download videos, not get every conceivable
property from the YouTube site. Most likely, you are suffering from an
XY problem http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem. An XY problem can
be solved by providing context
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/#is-there-enough-context-in-your-bug-report.

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#2201 (comment).

If I want to download a track that have the same name as the album (as
in: youtube-dl 'ytsearch1:Afgin - Astral Experience') that it is
published on, then their is a significant chance that a playlist of the
album is being downloaded.

[jaimeMF]

If I'm not wrong, 'ytsearch' only searches for videos, not for playlists.