Question: How can I download a Youtube video, and just the video and English subtitles?

Apologies for another issue, I don’t mean to spam.

Currently I have SAVE_MEDIA = False in my config, but I’m getting lots of .vtt files downloaded, and the archive size gets big. Is there a way to archive only:

1. the original video, in 1080p
2. english subtitles
3. the .description file

Thanks for your help!

[ghost]

@aidenmitchell Try this instead:

archivebox config --set YOUTUBEDL_ARGS='["--write-description", "--write-info-json", "--write-annotations", "--write-thumbnail", "--no-call-home", "--write-sub", "--all-subs", "--write-auto-sub", "--convert-subs=srt", "--yes-playlist", "--continue", "--ignore-errors", "--geo-bypass", "--add-metadata", "--max-filesize=500m", "--sub-lang=en"]'

[pirate]

You can add arbitrary YoutubeDL arguments using archivebox config --set YOUTUBEDL_ARGS="...", just figure out what you need and modify the existing args from archivebox/config.py:YOUTUBEDL_ARGS and pass them into that config setting.

e.g. keeping all the default args and adding --sub-lang="en" looks like this:

archivebox config --set YOUTUBEDL_ARGS="--write-description --write-info-json --write-annotations --write-thumbnail --no-call-home --write-sub --all-subs --write-auto-sub --convert-subs=srt --yes-playlist --continue --ignore-errors --geo-bypass --add-metadata --max-filesize=500m --sub-lang=en"