[Feature request] Filter illegal characters from filename

[gruppler]

When using [title] in the filename format, I'm unable to download the file because it contains illegal characters ("|").

[gruppler]

It would also be nice to see the meta.name in the list regardless of the filename format, since using [title] makes all the files appear the same in the download selection list. Perhaps underneath the generated filename, you could also show the meta.name?

[chandler-stimson]

The extension tries to extract the filename from the "Content-Disposition" header. If this fails, it tries to extract the name from the link. So, we are not using page titles. Can you provide an example?

[gruppler]

You are not using page titles, even if I set the filename format to [title]?

Unfortunately, the videos I'm trying to download are behind a paywall so I would have to find another example. But I can see in the page title there is a pipe character (|) which is illegal at least on Windows.

[gruppler]

Here's a screenshot from a recent attempt.

[chandler-stimson]

Please try the latest commit to see if the issue is fixed or not

• Download the project:
  • https://github.com/chandler-stimson/live-stream-downloader/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
• Extract to a local directory
• Open "chrome://extensions/" in a browser tab and turn the developer mode on
• Drop the "v3" directory to this view.

[gruppler]

I installed the unpacked extension and set my filename format to [title]. The download succeeded, but when the Save dialog popped up, the name was "_undefined.txt" and type was ".txt". When I selected "All files" as the type and manually added the ".mkv" extension, I was able to successfully open the file in a video player.