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Re: yt-dlp search syntax?




On 12/03/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote:
I typed   caught a lite sneeze   into google and got four hits; the
top one was weWtRqoSUOI (official video), wL71FOgp1a4 (2016 remaster),
BVef_GdeBs8 (looks like a disc), and SIsXdEw1hIU (Live 1998). Clicking
on Videos at the top of the page gives me those four, and three dozen
or so more. Most are from youtube, but not all.

That's the way I normally look for videos, and ytsearch was also
news to me. Is ytsearch limited to finding youtube videos, or more
wideranging? One of the benefits of yt-dlp is that I can grab videos
off news outlets (print and TV), facebook, tiktok, etc. (BTW I'm not
subscribed to social media sites.)

According to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md, you can do (among other things):



Occasionally I pick things off youtube's list down the righthand side
of a video's webpage, but usually I download the video without even
bothering to visit the webpage (unless it's the easiest way to grab
those eleven characters). I know nothing about channels.

(I don't recall whether the OP is happy googling for things.)

Cheers,
David.

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