Feature Request: v.redd.it

[jtara1]

Example link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/7qn3db/one_of_my_favourite_slow_motion_images_of_the/

in the HTML source of the link above, I find what might be a direct link to the video, but it redirects to the link with the comments and the video.

https://v.redd.it/s0tmbazdv3a01

More examples for unit testing found at https://www.reddit.com/domain/v.redd.it/

[mikf]

v.redd.it videos seem to only be available through HLS/m3u8 and DASH/mpd:
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/1d1d60f6dd4d7c33dc690ff5c68fdab11e6c0af7/youtube_dl/extractor/reddit.py#L32-L38

gallery-dl is not going to support any video manifests, so unless there is an obvious way to get a direct link to those videos, this is not going to to happen.

You could always just use --write-unsupported and call youtube-dl on the resulting file to get these videos.

[mikf]

Nevermind ... there is apparently a direct link in reddit's JSON response (see this reddit thread), but this wouldn't contain any audio.

If this is OK for you, then I'm just going to use this.

[jtara1]

I'd personally prefer to use youtube-dl if it means I get the audio.

[kattjevfel]

Doing a hella necrobump here, but can this be re-evaulated?
Seeing how we're using youtube-dl for twitter, why can't we do the same here? Having to parse the unsupported_files.txt log all the time and strapping it to youtube-dl gets tiring, would be nice if was at the very least an option to use ytdl.

https://github.com/Kattus/scripts/blob/6c7d609c0ffd290337579fe51290320496175b89/redditsaved.sh#L19-L24

[Hrxn]

It seems that this is also still an open issue in youtube-dl, by the way.

Issue here: ytdl-org/youtube-dl#14748
(Plus some closed duplicates)

So this is probably something that should be addressed if properly fixed upstream.

[mikf]

Videos from Reddit submissions (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/7qn3db/one_of_my_favourite_slow_motion_images_of_the/) will now get downloaded with the youtube-dl downloader (ae07f92).

Should I also add an extractor that recognizes v.redd.it URLs directly and only forwards them to youtube-dl? I initially decided against it, because you can just use youtube-dl itself if you've went through the trouble of getting a v.redd.it URL from a video post ...

[Hrxn]

Should I also add an extractor that recognizes v.redd.it URLs directly and only forwards them to youtube-dl? I initially decided against it, because you can just use youtube-dl itself if you've went through the trouble of getting a v.redd.it URL from a video post ...

Exactly, I think the Reddit post URLs should be enough.

[kattjevfel]

Getting the video works great, however the filename seems all messed up, I see in your commit it's trying (I think) to get the ID and title, that does work when having downloader.ytdl.outtmpl unset, but since I have that set for twitter for example (and honestly, would like for reddit too), it breaks.

With downloader.ytdl.outtmpl set to default:

0tydvhnj00e41-0tydvhnj00e41.mp4

Unset:

ewecdv literally the whole school turned into barbarians.mp4

pure youtube-dl:

literally the whole school turned into barbarians-0tydvhnj00e41.mp4

tl;dr: breaks with downloader.ytdl.outtmpl set.

EDIT: Realised for twitter we get extractor.twitter.videos = "ytdl" can we get this for reddit? :3

[mikf]

dff33b2

You can set videos to "ytdl" to invoke youtube-dl on the submission URL instead of the corresponding v.redd.it URL, but it will now also produce the "pure youtube-dl" filename with downloader.ytdl.outtmpl set to default and videos set to true.

"videos": "ytdl" is only useful if you want to use a custom output template for youtube-dl.

[kattjevfel]

Aye, that works great, thanks! Looks like it's time to retire my script then.