--description doesn't recognise \n for new line.\

[ZelunZhang]

Hi I use the following command to upload a description sudo youtube-upload --description="\n abc" However, after the upload it doesn't recognise the new line character on youtube. it gives me the following could you please let me know what character should i give to have a new line in the youtube video description?

[MCOfficer]

Carriage Return (\r) seems to work for me.

Edit: nvm, the automatic word wrap fooled me. however, using --description-file instead of -d works.

[rudolfbyker]

This works for me when calling the command line script from Python 3:

subprocess.run(
    args=[
        'youtube-upload',
        f'--title=test',
        f'--description=asdf\nfoo\nbar',
        #...
        video_path,
    ],
    check=True
)

So if your newlines are getting messed up, it might be your shell that's doing it.

[adriel]

For anyone else coming to this now, this kinda work around works if you're using bash and want to avoid writing it to disk. https://github.com/tokland/youtube-upload/issues/272#issuecomment-489057232