Yt-dlp configuration file

[guillopacheco]

Hello everyone, I’m trying to configure yt-dlp, to download the files in other folder instead of home, I’ve tried creating the . conf inside home, like it says in github, but keeps saving the files in the default folder (home).

do you know how to proper configure this? thanks

[winnie]

By default it should download the file(s) to the current working directory.

So for example, if you cd into ~/Downloads/youtube-archive/ and then invoke yt-dlp, it will save the video inside of ~/Downloads/youtube-archive/

Most graphical file browsers, such as Dolphin, let you open up the terminal in the currently viewed directory (usually from a right-click context menu). So if you browse to User Home Folder → Downloads → youtube-archives, then you can right-click and launch the terminal for this directory. Use yt-dlp as usual inside this directory.

[freggel.doe]

There seems to be a plethora of config file locations to choose from

man page excerpt

You can configure yt-dlp by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. The configuration is loaded from the following locations:

1. Main Configuration: The file given by --config-location
2. Portable Configuration: yt-dlp.conf in the same directory as the bundled binary. If you are running from source-code (/yt_dlp/main.py), the root directory is used
   instead.
3. Home Configuration: yt-dlp.conf in the home path given by -P, or in the current directory if no such path is given
4. User Configuration:
   • %XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp/config (recommended on Linux/macOS)
   • %XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp.conf
   • %APPDATA%/yt-dlp/config (recommended on Windows)
   • %APPDATA%/yt-dlp/config.txt
   • ~/yt-dlp.conf
   • ~/yt-dlp.conf.txt
   %XDG_CONFIG_HOME% defaults to ~/.config if undefined. On windows, %APPDATA% generally points to C:\Users<user name>\AppData\Roaming and ~ points to %HOME% if present, %USERPRO‐
   FILE% (generally C:\Users<user name>), or %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
5. System Configuration: /etc/yt-dlp.conf

%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp/config or $HOME/.config/yt-dlp/config seems to be recommended for Linux.

[weingeist]

create a yt-dlp.conf in .config/
Paste -o /your/directory/what/you/want/%(title)s.%(ext)s

[fredvej]

My config file is $HOME/.config/yt-dlp/config and looks like this:

# Save all videos here
--paths $HOME/Videos/youtube-dl
--output %(title)s.%(upload_date)s.%(vcodec)s.%(acodec)s.%(autonumber)02d.%(ext)s

# Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in filenames
--restrict-filenames

# Download all the available subtitles
--all-subs
# merge subtitles into video file
--embed-subs

# Embed metadata to the video file. Also adds chapters to file
--embed-metadata

# Do not overwrite existing output files
--no-overwrites

# Download only the video, if the URL refers to a video AND a playlist
--no-playlist

# Number of seconds to sleep before each download when used alone or a lower bound of a range for randomized sleep before each download (minimum possible number of seconds to sleep) when used
--min-sleep-interval 1
--max-sleep-interval 2

# Number of fragments of a dash/hlsnative video that should be download concurrently (default is 1)
--concurrent-fragments 4

You can use $HOME/ or ~/ for the user’s home directory.

[guillopacheco]

thanks everyone,