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«File name too long» should not error
See original GitHub issueChecklist
- I’m reporting a feature request
- I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
- I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar feature requests including closed ones
Description
To reproduce:
- try to download any video with a really long title
- you get
ERROR: unable to open for writing: [Errno 36] File name too long: - the video is not downloaded
My suggestion:
- instead of an
ERRORput aWARNING - download the video regardless, just truncate the title to an appropriate size, similar to what suggested in #29627
This will improve UX, check bug tracker to see how common this issue is.
#7765 talks about this too (with a linked pull request) but:
- does not elaborate on whether it is actually a good thing / possible drawbacks
- is limited to collaborators
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 2 years ago
- Reactions:1
- Comments:14 (7 by maintainers)
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--trim-filenamesis a poorly implemented solution from youtube-dlc and I would not recommend porting it as-is. Even in yt-dlp, I recommend users to use the % formatting to control filename length instead. E.g. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3494This is actually a bug and shows how poorly implemented the option is! See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/2314. Do not rely on this behavior…
This is particularly annoying when downloading videos from Twitter as it takes the whole post as file name. I usually use --id and rename the file manually.