Don't Download Shorts when Downloading YouTube Channels/Playlists

Checklist

• I’m reporting a site feature request
• I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2022.03.08.1. (update instructions)
• I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones. DO NOT post duplicates
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Example URLs

https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce2/videos

Description

When I try to download a youtube channel it downloads the shorts and the full-length videos. I would like an option to only download full-length videos and not shorts; for example, when I download VSauce2 it will download “The Pi Alphabet Clock #shorts” when I would like to not download any YouTube Shorts content. I hope this is clear enough.

Verbose log

-dlp -vU https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce2/videos
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce2/videos']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.03.08.2 [e491d06d3]
[debug] Python version 3.10.2 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19043-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2022-03-03-git-72684d2c2d-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 2022-03-03-git-72684d2c2d-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Optional libraries: brotli, Cryptodome, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Latest version: 2022.03.08.1, Current version: 2022.03.08.2
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.03.08.2)
[debug] [youtube:tab] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce2/videos
[youtube:tab] Vsauce2: Downloading webpage
[debug] [youtube:tab] Final URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce2/videos
[download] Downloading playlist: Vsauce2 - Videos
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 1: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 2: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 3: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 4: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 5: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 6: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 7: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 8: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 9: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 10: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 11: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 12: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 13: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] UCqmugCqELzhIMNYnsjScXXw page 14: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] playlist Vsauce2 - Videos: Downloading 423 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 423
[debug] [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvPI7yxvRyY
[youtube] PvPI7yxvRyY: Downloading webpage
[youtube] PvPI7yxvRyY: Downloading android player API JSON
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, codec:vp9.2, lang, proto
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec:vp9.2(10), acodec, lang, proto, filesize, fs_approx, tbr, vbr, abr, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo*+bestaudio/best
[info] PvPI7yxvRyY: Downloading 1 format(s): 247+251
[debug] Invoking downloader on "https://rr3---sn-q4fl6nsy.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1648021727&ei=f3w6Yr-HD6qjir4Pp8WCoAg&ip=68.0.49.129&id=o-ADfsp0pev-CI-bbcW2a_p3wPGH5P6zSYpwEFQgjX9gZc&itag=247&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=eT&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-q4fl6nsy%2Csn-q4flrnsk&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=20&initcwndbps=1621250&vprv=1&mime=video%2Fwebm&gir=yes&clen=3069368&dur=40.208&lmt=1647286483139405&mt=1647999654&fvip=1&keepalive=yes&fexp=24001373%2C24007246&c=ANDROID&txp=5437434&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cvprv%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRQIgVpJC1XJEkp-LNMPV6DNtm9Bski2AXYgwSQ6LAf0L4DwCIQC-JPHwnlmm1o2nIF1leqtmGqCf3mlYISKgp0T5uODe_w%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRgIhAORFVz4NoH96QV3iFd-W4H2rCCZ4HVl5siM2AeQ3LoXVAiEAkL4QGivIF4oPrN2XOp5GIdVLyvXRm_LT-n0rkRPja94%3D"
[download] Destination: The Pi Alphabet Clock #shorts [PvPI7yxvRyY].f247.webm
[download] 100% of 2.93MiB in 00:00
[debug] Invoking downloader on "https://rr3---sn-q4fl6nsy.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1648021727&ei=f3w6Yr-HD6qjir4Pp8WCoAg&ip=68.0.49.129&id=o-ADfsp0pev-CI-bbcW2a_p3wPGH5P6zSYpwEFQgjX9gZc&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=eT&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-q4fl6nsy%2Csn-q4flrnsk&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=20&initcwndbps=1621250&vprv=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&gir=yes&clen=554972&dur=40.241&lmt=1647285440943924&mt=1647999654&fvip=1&keepalive=yes&fexp=24001373%2C24007246&c=ANDROID&txp=5432434&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cvprv%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRgIhAKzsIO3Sg9scskKhGsFGuc9V3tQDm9NtrNkvPBVq6FJ-AiEApWQoNuUQ41NEjkRNGgilNDFHAvkBuNhVJYSzAuTLZxU%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRgIhAORFVz4NoH96QV3iFd-W4H2rCCZ4HVl5siM2AeQ3LoXVAiEAkL4QGivIF4oPrN2XOp5GIdVLyvXRm_LT-n0rkRPja94%3D"
[download] Destination: The Pi Alphabet Clock #shorts [PvPI7yxvRyY].f251.webm
[download] 100% of 541.96KiB in 00:00
[Merger] Merging formats into "The Pi Alphabet Clock #shorts [PvPI7yxvRyY].webm"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel "repeat+info" -i "file:The Pi Alphabet Clock #shorts [PvPI7yxvRyY].f247.webm" -i "file:The Pi Alphabet Clock #shorts [PvPI7yxvRyY].f251.webm" -c copy -map "0:v:0" -map "1:a:0" -movflags "+faststart" "file:The Pi Alphabet Clock #shorts [PvPI7yxvRyY].temp.webm"
Deleting original file The Pi Alphabet Clock #shorts [PvPI7yxvRyY].f251.webm (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file The Pi Alphabet Clock #shorts [PvPI7yxvRyY].f247.webm (pass -k to keep)
[download] Downloading video 2 of 423
[debug] [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofneDHUlhM0
[youtube] ofneDHUlhM0: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ofneDHUlhM0: Downloading android player API JSON
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, codec:vp9.2, lang, proto
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec:vp9.2(10), acodec, lang, proto, filesize, fs_approx, tbr, vbr, abr, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id

ERROR: Interrupted by user

[coletdjnz]

f.y.i. youtube now redirects /shorts/ by itself with HTTP 303 back to /watch?v= at least at UK (started at April 5th 2022). https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mNj-f7CW5AM

Seeing this too. I’m assuming they are still test/rolling it out.

However for yt-dlp, as long as YouTube provides the /shorts/ link or shorts overlay (even if it redirects to /watch) then this filter should still work

[coletdjnz]

With https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/fd2ad7cb245423e49db1be9d9654c7dd3103619a you should be able to do

--match-filter "original_url!*=/shorts/ & url!*=/shorts/" to filter out shorts

Note this only works in places where youtube shows the shorts thumbnail overlay, or if the link on the webpage directs you to the shorts viewer.