Open ghost opened 3 years ago
YouTube channel URLs are not always recognized. For example
> youtube-dlc "https://www.youtube.com/deepinc/videos?flow=grid&view=0&gl=US" [generic] videos?flow=grid&view=0&gl=US: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] videos?flow=grid&view=0&gl=US: Downloading webpage [generic] videos?flow=grid&view=0&gl=US: Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.youtube.com/deepinc/videos?flow=grid&view=0&gl=US
However, if I compute the channel ID of deepinc, then it works:
deepinc
> youtube-dlc "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyF1eat8zd-GaeYcjiWbyvQ/videos?flow=grid&view=0&gl=US" [youtube:tab] UCyF1eat8zd-GaeYcjiWbyvQ: Downloading webpage [download] Downloading playlist: DEEP INC. - Videos [youtube:tab] Downloading page 1 [youtube:tab] Downloading page 2 [youtube:tab] Downloading page 3 [youtube:tab] Downloading page 4 [youtube:tab] playlist DEEP INC. - Videos: Downloading 132 videos [download] Downloading video 1 of 132 [youtube] 4OA-SbtiC3M: Downloading webpage ...
Please support alternative channel URLs. Thanks.
This is fixed in #245 but the patch never made it to release since blackjack has been inactive for a while. You can check out my fork yt-dlp if you want
Description
YouTube channel URLs are not always recognized. For example
However, if I compute the channel ID of
deepinc
, then it works:Please support alternative channel URLs. Thanks.