• Dr. WeskerEnglish
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    What do you mean descriptions? Like the video’s description body text? If so, yes. Gimme one moment to get on my computer, and I’ll edit this comment to include the command args.

    EDIT: This is the specific shell alias I use when I’m archiving videos for backup.

    yt-archive() {
        yt-dlp --embed-chapters \
            --concurrent-fragments 5 \
            --restrict-filenames \
            --write-description \
            --write-subs \
            --write-auto-subs \
            --sub-langs="en.*" \
            --paths="~/Archival/" \
            "$@"
    }
    

    The command arg you’re likely most interested in is --write-description which will output the text to a text file alongside the video file

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      This is good info but I believe they mean the Chapter names which appear along the play bar (see “Chapter: Results” in OP’s screenshot)

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        The --embed-chapters flag above should accomplish this, then.

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    –embed-metadata

    Embed metadata to the video file. Also embeds chapters/infojson if present unless --no-embed-chapters/–no-embed-info-json are used (Alias: --add-metadata)

    from the yt-dlp github page

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    It does fucking everything lol.

    Thought it was just for YouTube videos until I got it recently and read the man file. The amount of shit you can do with it is insane.

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      I was pleasantly surprised that it also works for most spicy websites.

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      Much of it is just functionality by way of ffmpeg, which is also an excellent program.