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pez
pez

Reputation: 4235

Changing YouTube-DL Default Save Location for Embedded use in Python Script

YouTube-DL saves by default in the working directory, unless you specifically direct it otherwise in the youtube-dl.conf file. However, this file doesn't exist on install, and I'm having a lot of trouble creating it.

I'm running an Ubuntu 16.04 LAMP stack server on Digital Ocean.

I tried creating youtube-dl.conf under /usr/local/etc and then added this to it: --o ~/html/media/audio/%(title)s but that does nothing.

I tried the solution in this answer: 

mkdir -p ~/.config/youtube-dl/
echo "-o ~/html/media/audio/%(title)s" > ~/.config/youtube-dl/config

And it worked without any issues, but I can't find where it made the directory, and either way it doesn't work.

I can't simply do something like youtube-dl -o "~/Desktop/%(title)s.%(ext)s" 'youtube file url' because I'm using youtube-dl from a Python script, and not from command line. Running the above command without a URL doesn't work. Related askubuntu question.

Can anyone help me out? The working directory is /var/www/html, but I need it to save in /var/www/html/media/audio. Still new to Ubuntu. Thank you!

Youtube-DL Github Configuration Section

Edit: Using the answer by @phihag below, I added this:

subprocess.check_call(['youtube-dl', '--output', '/var/www/html/media/audio/%(title)s.%(ext)s', url])

But this is saving the file in mkv and I need it in mp3 format. I've tried something like:

subprocess.check_call(['youtube-dl', '--audio-format', 'mp3', '--output', '/var/www/html/media/audio/%(title)s.%(ext)s', url])

And other variations, but I get something like this error:

subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['youtube-dl', '--extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --output '/var/www/html/media/audio/%(title)s', 'url']' returned non-zero exit status 2

These are the options I was previously using that I'm now trying to emulate using the subprocess:

    ydl_opts = {
        'fixup': 'detect_or_warn',
        'format': 'bestaudio/best',
        'extractaudio': True,
        'postprocessors': [{
            'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
            'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
            'preferredquality': '320',
        }],
        'logger': MyLogger(),
        'progress_hooks': [my_hook],
    }

Using these options above does not allow for changing the default location. That has to be done on a case-by-case basis through command line, each time you want to download, or you need to use the config file (to my understanding. I haven't seen any examples in my searching where someone can specify the default save location through the API in a script).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2374

Answers (1)

anon
anon

Reputation:

There is no need to write a configuration file; you can set the output template from python as well:

from __future__ import unicode_literals
import youtube_dl

ydl_opts = {
    'outtmpl': '/var/www/html/media/audio/%(title)s.%(ext)s',
    'extractaudio': True,
    'postprocessors': [{
        'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
        'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
        'preferredquality': '320',
    }],
}
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
    ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])

Upvotes: 2

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