can not find youtube-dl downloaded videos

[rofl0r]

.... because youtube-dl is the only program i know that stores files not with the actual timestamp, but prefers to fetch the timestamp of when a video was uploaded to youtube and then manipulates the timestamp of the file in fs to match that of youtube(!?).

so instead of doing

~/video-dump $ ls -lat | head
... displaying the 10 most recent videos downloaded

i have to maintain a list and save all the titles of the videos i downloaded recently so i can find them in the FS when i wanna watch them.

this counterintuitive behaviour should imo be disabled.
if there are some people that want the file creation date of their file on their hd to match the youtube publishing date, those can use --magic-switch-to-enable-that, but it should definitively not be on by default.

[dstftw]

youtube-dl does not use upload date as timestamp but Last-Modified HTTP header. wget does exactly the same way. This is the expected behavior and can be disabled with --no-mtime.

[rofl0r]

ok: since i didn't find the option when searching for "date", may i suggest you add that term to the --help entry for --no-mtime ?

[dstftw]

It's already there:

    --no-mtime                       Do not use the Last-modified header to set
                                     the file modification time

[rofl0r]

where ? i don't see "date" mentioned.