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[andrew-wja]

The docs section linked to in this comment has been deleted, and there are still stale references to it in the RST docs source files. This is super important -- I don't want ytdl-sub to redownload terabytes of 4K content from Youtube! Surely this should be on by default? And the docs should not have been deleted? I eventually found out how to set this crucial setting by reading the code 😢

https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub/blob/master/src/ytdl_sub/config/preset_options.py#L113

It appears there is also a bug because I am using the ytdl-sub-gui:latest image and this option is not on by default, but according to the YAML parsing code it should default to True if not set.

Discussed in #789

^{Originally posted by bencdll October 31, 2023}
It seems that every time I run ytdl-sub it redownloads everything. How can I make it download only new videos?

[andrew-wja]

Here's some reduced example config.yaml and subscriptions.yaml files to test with:

configuration:
  working_directory: ".ytdl-sub-working-directory"

presets:
  TV Show:
    preset:
      - "Jellyfin TV Show by Date"
      - "Only Recent"

__preset__:
  overrides:
    tv_show_directory: "/data"
    only_recent_date_range: "15years"
    only_recent_max_files: 1

Jellyfin TV Show by Date | Only Recent:

  = Reality:
    "Fireplace 4K": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCBpXMNymy2rZ_PFn8z63jxpxp7aOlBmI"
    "Virtual Fireplace": "https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEO2ywhsmOLni56qGYyLWW34yoCQ5l3Oy&feature=shared"

[andrew-wja]

ytdl-sub deleting and redownloading 10-hour 2160p videos seems like a worst possible outcome here 🫤

[jmbannon]

The TV show presets enable the archive by default. only_recent_max_files: 1 is of concern, this means you only want to keep a single video at a time for any subscription