Can I have some help regarding using yt-dlp.
- How to select a specific duration of video to be downloaded like from 00 to 600 seconds in video of 8 hours.
- When downloading songs from youtube with metadata and thumbnail I get thumbnails in rectangular shape instead of square. How to turn them square?
Asking it here cause, Discussion on repository is closed and it is FOSS software.
For selecting durations, you can use this
--download-sections REGEXDownload only chapters that match the regular expression. A “*” prefix denotes time-range instead of chapter. Negative timestamps are calculated from the end. “*from-url” can be used to download between the “start_time” and “end_time” extracted from the URL. Needs ffmpeg. This option can be used multiple times to download multiple sections, e.g.
--download-sections "*10:15-inf" --download-sections "intro"As for the thumbnails, usually, when I download a Youtube Music album thumbnail, it is already squared. Before that, I used to use a specific hack, but I don’t remember how I did it anymore. Check this discussion, it may help: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/429