Download music only items - exclude videos, don't extract audio about ytdl-sub HOT 10 CLOSED

There is no simple way out of the box. You could try adding a filter/regex to see if it's audio via inspecting the title or description. Maintaining a separate playlist is probably the best workaround

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Good idea @jo-chemla , you could add the following to a preset:

filter_include:
  - "{ %ne( %map_get( entry_metadata, "artist", null ), null ) }"

which means 'only include if entry_metadata (i.e. the info.json) artist field is not equal (ne) to null'

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Actually just realized you posted everything I needed. Turns out this bug happens due to some bad design choices when validating subscriptions prior to any execution. #895 should hopefully fix it

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Thanks a lot for the quick fix! Will test it tonight and report back. Have a good day!

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Again, thanks, this filter does work indeed with the bugfix! On the yt-dlp thread, someone mentioned this filter "channel~=' - Topic$'" to differentiate between video and audio, but checking artist is way better, almost perfect (some misses, but great anyway).

PS: watched this thread for youtube music metadata parsing: #824

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Still happy to help, closing since this isn't an issue/feature request

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Thanks. Started watching this issue thread here yt-dlp/yt-dlp#622 which is probably the best place to get a filter between standard-youtube vs youtube-music file source. Plus, from here yt-dlp/yt-dlp#4217 it seems that the --embed-metadata tag adds artist, title, album metadata, which might be absent from video files metadata, so this could be a discriminator a posteriori between music (pure audio) vs video.

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Great idea, trying that. Atm I get this error (running the run_cron script on my docker container, had to use new-line to "escape" the quotes)

ytdl_sub.script.utils.exceptions.FunctionRuntimeException: 
Runtime error occurred when executing the function %map_get: 
'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not String

    = Music: 
      "Youtube-Music-Likes": 
        overrides: 
          subscription_value: "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=LL"
        filter_include:
          - >-
            { %ne( %map_get( entry_metadata, "artist", null ), null ) }

Edit: same error when trying to cast to your class of String with the following filter { %ne( %map_get( entry_metadata, %string("artist"), null ), null ) }. Incriminating line:

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Hmm, i think the error implies entry_metadata is a string when it should infact be a map. Let me look into this some more

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Can you send me your full config and subscriptions @jo-chemla

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