Feature Request: Auto Skip Downloading Shorts

[zpz5HAU-tgc3fgw2xwr]

Could we get an option added to allow auto skipping downloading any shorts? I know on the YouTube website all the shorts have a special icon, so there might be a flag on the video that YouTube-DL can detect. If there's not, YouTube shorts also have a 60second maximum duration, so you could auto filter videos with a duration of 60 seconds or less.

[meeb]

Yep, a sensible request. Should be relatively easy to implement.

[zpz5HAU-tgc3fgw2xwr]

If it would be more helpful in the long run, rather than a single checkbox for shorts, adding a more generalized filters section would be useful. Things like...

• title includes/excludes a string
• duration longer/shorter than number
  • 60 secs is the max for shorts, so if there's no short flag to create a checkbox a user could just put 60 seconds here
  • some channels release short form advertisements or other videos that could be skipped by tweaking this duration

[meeb]

Yep, I believe keyword filtering and more verbose time limit filters are already discussed on another wishlist ticket.

[alneven]

with the command line yt-dl I have used this to prevent "short videos"

--match-filter 'duration > 300'

[meeb]

Thanks, @alneven - this would be implemented in tubesync though along with the other match code and an opt-in flag (some crazy people might actually want shorts to download!).

[timwhite]

@meeb I think we can close this issue now as we now have length filtering

[meeb]

Yep! I would agree. @zpz5HAU-tgc3fgw2xwr you can thank @timwhite for writing the code for this after a year :)

[alneven]

thank you, I appreciate it