exporting %(uploader)s and %(uploader_id)s as bash variables

[sapphonie]

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Okay, so I have this script to download all videos from a specific youtube channel:

#!/bin/bash
echo "You entered: $1 for the URL "
sleep 1
echo "Now downloading all videos from URL "$1""
youtube-dl -iw \
--no-continue $1 \
-f bestvideo+bestaudio --merge-output-format mkv \
-o "%(uploader)s{%(uploader_id)s}/[%(upload_date)s] %(title)s" \
--add-metadata --download-archive archive.txt

Here's the problem: I want to have the archive.txt file put into the output folder of the videos.

How do I do that? Can you possibly export %(uploader)s or %(uploader_id)s as variables?

[dstftw]

This does not make any sense since you may end up with different path for different videos thus having multiple archive files.

[sapphonie]

I want to download channel "X" into folder uploader{uploader_id}/ and put the archive.txt file inside of uploader{uploader_id}/ (i.e. at uploader{uploader_id}/archive.txt )

[dstftw]

Again: techically in general uploader/uploader_id/etc for the videos of the same playlist may differ since these are plain extracted metafields. If this happens you'll end up with multiple archive files that is not what --download-archive was designed for.

[sapphonie]

How would the uploader/uploader_id vars differ if all of the videos on a channel are uploaded by the same person?

[sapphonie]

Also, see this feature request: #9201

[dstftw]

in general

Generic playlist may contain arbitrary videos not only from single uploader.

[sapphonie]

Oh. Still, there should be a way to put the archive file with the downloaded videos. I've got this script (https://github.com/TheSqrtMinus1/download-youtube-channel-hq) working, but it's a really ugly workaround and I believe that there's a better way.

[dstftw]

In any case it should be achieved not via template based download archive since it otherwise will introduce total mess when one will start using it with heterogeneous playlists/videos.