# This example shows how to download and format a Youtube video OR playlist # to display in Kodi as a music video. Kodi requires music videos to be in # a shared directory, so we will configure this to make the output directory # formatted as: # # /path/to/Music Videos # Elton John - Rocketman-thumb.jpg # Elton John - Rocketman.mp4 # Elton John - Rocketman.nfo # System of a Down - Chop Suey-thumb.jpg # System of a Down - Chop Suey.mp4 # System of a Down - Chop Suey.nfo # ... # configuration: working_directory: '.ytdl-sub-downloads' presets: yt_music_video: # A single YouTube video is our source/download strategy. However, this # can be overwritten to download music videos from a "playlist", as we # will see in a preset below youtube: download_strategy: "video" # For advanced YTDL users only; any YTDL parameter can be set here. # To download age-restricted videos, you will need to set your cookie # file here as a ytdl parameter. For more info, see # https://ytdl-sub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#download-age-restricted-youtube-videos # # ytdl_options: # cookiefile: "path/to/cookie_file.txt # For each video downloaded, set the file and thumbnail name here. # We set both with {music_video_name}, which is a variable we define in # the overrides section further below to represent consistent naming format. output_options: output_directory: "{music_video_directory}" file_name: "{music_video_name}.{ext}" thumbnail_name: "{music_video_name}-thumb.jpg" info_json_name: "{music_video_name}.{info_json_ext}" # For each video downloaded, add a music video NFO file for it. Populate it # with tags that Kodi will read and use to display it in the music or music # videos section. nfo_tags: nfo_name: "{music_video_name}.nfo" nfo_root: "musicvideo" tags: artist: "{artist}" title: "{title}" album: "Music Videos" year: "{upload_year}" # Overrides is a section where we can define our own variables, and use them in # any other section. We define our music video directory and episode file name # here, which gets reused above for the video, thumbnail, and NFO file. overrides: music_video_directory: "path/to/Music Videos" music_video_name: "{artist_sanitized} - {title_sanitized}" # It is not always ideal to download all of an artist's music videos. # Maybe you only like one song of theirs. We can reuse our preset above # to download a single video instead. yt_music_video_playlist: preset: "yt_music_video" youtube: download_strategy: "playlist" # Setting maintain_download_archive=True is generally a good thing to enable # with playlists and channels because it will store previously downloaded # video ids to tell YTDL not to re-download them on a successive invocation. output_options: maintain_download_archive: True