Some questions about yt-dlp (mander.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by jaagruk@mander.xyz to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[-] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago

        There is the --download-sections option. Looking at it, you might want to use --download-sections "*0:00-1:00".
I briefly checked with --list-thumbnails and it doesn't look like YouTube offers any square ones, so I would look into using ImageMagick to edit the image with a command. I doubt yt-dlp allows you to do any sort of image manipulation out of the box.

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