Advanced Settings

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These settings are for people who know what they are changing. The defaults work for most users.

YouTube

Player client

Choose which YouTube clients yt-dlp should act as and set PO tokens for them. See YouTube.

Generate PO tokens

Create tokens manually, or use the automatic provider. See PO tokens.

Use app language for metadata

If enabled, metadata fields will follow your app language and even affect format selection by preferring dubbed versions instead of original.

Other YouTube extractor arguments

Extra arguments passed to the YouTube extractor of yt-dlp, such as player_skip=webpage.

Command templates

Data fetching extra command

Enable command templates to be used for data fetching as extra commands. Once enabled, each template gets a data fetching option.

Format

Use format importance ordering

Weigh the properties of formats in the order you choose, instead of the standard selection. Set the order for video and audio in the two Format importance order entries. See Formats.

Downloading

Disable write info json

Every time you restart / resume the download, yt-dlp will re-download json data from the servers. Not recommended.

Suppress HTTPS certificate validation

Ignore certificate errors. Use it only if a website has an invalid certificate and you trust it.

User-Agent header

Use the user agent of the web view when you created your cookies. See Cookies.

Miscellaneous

Disable flat playlist

Don't use --flat-playlist. Data fetching of playlists is slower, but the items come with more data.

Use original url for playlist url

Use the playlist URL given by you instead of the playlist_webpage_url tag from the json dump.

Reset

Resets every preference in this screen.