ExtractorYoutubeDL: skip YouTube super resolution videos #708
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YouTube has started upscaling older videos that are below a certain resolution. yt-dlp identifies these via the `-sr` suffix in the format ID. It's probably a good idea to avoid downloading these, and just focus on the originals instead. yt-dlp's `--dump-single-json` option ignores the `--format` argument, so we can't use that to filter out super resolution videos. Instead, we'll need to check every format we get while iterating and skip it if it ends with `-sr`. See: https://alexwlchan.net/til/2025/ignore-ai-scaled-videos/?ref=mastodon
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| // https://alexwlchan.net/til/2025/ignore-ai-scaled-videos/ | ||
| if ("$.format_id".equals(jsonReader.getPath()) | ||
| || jsonReader.getPath().matches("^\\$\\.entries\\[\\d+\\]\\.format_id$")) { | ||
| if (value.endsWith("-sr")) { |
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We probably want to make this a configurable option, with a default to not skip these, since others may want these videos.
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| setSkipSuperResolution(true); |
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I think we want default to be false to maintain existing behavior by default.
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| return (Boolean) kp.get("skipSuperResolution"); | ||
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| * Whether or not to create a crawl.log entry for any WARC Metadata Records written. |
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Copy/paste typo in the comment
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Done, and also updated the comment lower down to reflect the fact that these are skipped by request rather than by default.
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YouTube has started upscaling older videos that are below a certain resolution. yt-dlp identifies these via the
-srsuffix in the format ID. It's probably a good idea to avoid downloading these, and just focus on the originals instead.yt-dlp's
--dump-single-jsonoption ignores the--formatargument, so we can't use that to filter out super resolution videos. Instead, we'll need to check every format we get while iterating and skip it if it ends with-sr.See: https://alexwlchan.net/til/2025/ignore-ai-scaled-videos/?ref=mastodon
I haven't had a chance to test this yet.