could --no-munge-filenames be added?

[Wizel603]

Sometimes the exact title is needed, but a recent change made some characters filtered. It would be useful to have a way to get the exact title when one knows what they are doing.

youtube-dl --no-munge-filenames --get-filename -o '%(title)s' xyxyxyxyxyx

[phihag]

Do you really ever want that? Because that would essentially give the video service and virtually any MITM attacker the right to overwrite any file as your user, including, say, a bashrc which downloads and executes code from the attacker every time you login.

If you want expert information, use --write-info-json to get all the metadata before it is being sanitized for filenames.

What you seem to want is simply

youtube-dl --get-title BaW_jenozKc

For now, I'm closing this issue - due to the mentioned security implications and the swath of alternatives (--get-* as well as the info dict file), I don't see any rationale why it should be implemented. Feel free to comment though. Can you describe a use case that can not be solved with a new (or even existing) --get-* option?