Is it possible to pass custom options to yt-dlp via settings?

[wy580477]

Your awesome project looks more advanced than other yt-dlp web frontends.

There is one missing feature which prevents me from switch over, settings.json only has download_path option.

Is there any way to pass additional options to yt-dlp?

[marcopeocchi]

Hello! If you mean cli arguments to yt-dlp, yes it's totally doable. I will provide a way to do that.

[wy580477]

Hello! If you mean cli arguments to yt-dlp, yes it's totally doable. I will provide a way to do that.

Yeah, cli arguments support would be awesome.

[marcopeocchi]

Would a format like this be sufficient?

Each array entry is effectively a yt-dlp cli argument

[wy580477]

I know little about coding, so if the following suggestion would take too much effort, please ignore it.

If there are multiple profiles which can be switched via WebUI, this would be a very flexible way for users to extend WebUI functions.

{
    "port": 3000,
    "profile": [
        {
            "tag": "profile_mp4",
            "download_path": "/data1",
            "cliArgs": [
                "-f mp4",
                "--exec script.sh"
            ]
        },
        {
            "tag": "profile_mkv",
            "download_path": "/data2",
            "cliArgs": [
                "-f mkv",
                "--exec script2.sh"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

[marcopeocchi]

I understand the idea but I think it's a little bit out of scope. It will surely applicable in a context where there's multiple separate yt-dlp instances but this is not the case (or at least not what I've designed at the beginning)

[wy580477]

Thx.