Video selection based on video duration

[xavier83]

Currently there is an option to download videos based on their filesizes but not based on the duration of the video. I would be great to have an option that filters videos that pass the given duration constraints.

[jaimeMF]

Sorry, I didn't understand , did you mean the duration of the video?

[FiloSottile]

Yep, I think so.

Here, like with --print, maybe we should create a --filter

[xavier83]

yup. by runtime i meant duration of the video rather than the execution of the program.

[anton-fedorov]

We've run over this need too. Do you guys support this?

[jaimeMF]

Since youtube-dl 2015.02.10.2 (the relevant commit is 347de49) you can use the --match-filter options, for example if you want to only download videos longer than 1 minute you can use --match-filter 'duration > 60'