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I want to be able to type yt-dlp [url] and have it automatically use --sponsorblock-remove CATS to remove sponsored section from the download file without having to type --sponsorblock-remove CATS everytime. Is this possible within yt-dlp?

enabling --write-subs, --write-thumbnail, by default for subtitles and thumbnails would also be convenient

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Check out this part of the docs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I use the section 4 approach with great success.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just alias it in your .bashrc

alias yt-dlps='yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove CATS --write-subs --write-thumbnail'

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This will work, but is not as nice as the official way to do it via a config file, as described by another comment here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

It's better actually, because you don't need to mess with the config if you want to run it without the switch.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Today I learned yt-dlp has sponsorblock built in

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I’m sure there would be a way to create a script that puts the commands that you’d like in for a given url. Also haven’t used yt-dlp, it’s nice that they have sponsorblock built in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I didn't even realize it was POSSIBLE to differentiate those sections let alone remove them. Thanks for inadvertently informing me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If someone didn't know there is a yt-dlp android front end called YTDLnis, use at your own risk but use it it's fucking great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also there's Seal which is a bit better imo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I will check it thx for the info 👍👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Why would you want to remove cats, they're adorable 🥺

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Create a configuration file. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp has the documentation