Site support request: TASVideos

[Feathered-Serpent]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a new site support request
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that none of provided URLs violate any copyrights
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar site support requests including closed ones

Example URLs

• Single video: http://tasvideos.org/2397M.html
• Playlist: http://tasvideos.org/Movies-Windows-NoScreenshot-NoTier-NoFlags.html

Description

I hope, that this might qualify as a website which could be supported. I do hope that, because you can't really play the videos on the website itself, but only download them directoy or follow a link to youtube.

Each movie has at least one mirror to archive.org where one can directly download the movie file. The file name is semi-shortened, like braid-tas-keylie.mkv
Difficulty: more often the movie is listed at least twice, with information like (MKV Modern HQ) or (MP4 Compatibility).

As Metadata it would be great to have the following:

• the title (probably with the system, e.g. "Windows Braid (World)")
• the creator (in the title of each movie e.g. "Windows Braid (World) in 22:15.28 by keylie" -> keylie)
• the description below the links
• the tags on the right side of the list (aka Best ending, Genre: Puzzle, Uses hardest difficulty etc.); maybe as its own tag or added to the description

"Playlists" are search results via the filters on the website. Each filter adds something to the URL, but all URLs always starts with "tasvideos.org/Movies-"

I kinda enjoy watching speedruns and hopefully others might as well and would be able to create an extractor.

[zMrKrabz]

Can't you just go to the youtube link listed on the video's homepage?

[Feathered-Serpent]

Then I get a (I guess) recoded video from Youtube. Getting the original files would be more welcome (at least for me).

And automation would still be missing if I had to click on each Youtube link manually.