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Skip YouTube Shorts in channel/playlist discovery

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Spike's Car Radio is an active Shorts channel and its 60-second clips
were being downloaded as podcast content. yt-dlp reports these as
media_type 'short'; record such videos as skipped so they are neither
downloaded nor re-resolved. Applies to all YouTube feeds.
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Greg Pomerantz 2026-10-23 13:30:42 -04:00
parent 4b5e48a26d
commit 22adb0f7e1
2 changed files with 13 additions and 0 deletions
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main.go
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@ -195,6 +195,16 @@ func pollYouTube(feed config.Feed, sm *state.Manager, jobs chan<- downloader.Dow
continue continue
} }
// YouTube Shorts are not podcast content: record as skipped so they
// are never downloaded and never re-resolved.
if info.MediaType == "short" {
dp := computeYTDestPath(feed.OutputDir, info.UploadDate, info.Title, v.ID)
if sm.AddJobWithStatus(feed.URL, watchURL(v.ID), dp, state.StatusSkipped, info.Duration) {
skipped++
}
continue
}
// Out of the start_date window. Record as skipped so it isn't // Out of the start_date window. Record as skipped so it isn't
// re-resolved next poll. (Channel video order is not reliably // re-resolved next poll. (Channel video order is not reliably
// newest-first — e.g. the Iron Culture channel lists recent episodes // newest-first — e.g. the Iron Culture channel lists recent episodes

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ytdlp/ytdlp.go
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@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ type VideoInfo struct {
Title string Title string
Duration float64 // seconds, 0 if unknown Duration float64 // seconds, 0 if unknown
UploadDate time.Time UploadDate time.Time
// MediaType is "video", "short", or "livestream" ("" if unknown).
MediaType string
LiveStatus string // "not_live", "is_live", "was_live", "is_upcoming", or "" if unknown LiveStatus string // "not_live", "is_live", "was_live", "is_upcoming", or "" if unknown
// ReleaseTimestamp is the scheduled start time of a live stream in unix // ReleaseTimestamp is the scheduled start time of a live stream in unix
// seconds (from liveBroadcastDetails.startTimestamp); 0 if unknown. // seconds (from liveBroadcastDetails.startTimestamp); 0 if unknown.
@ -129,6 +131,7 @@ func Info(ctx context.Context, s Settings, videoID string) (VideoInfo, error) {
} }
} }
info.LiveStatus, _ = data["live_status"].(string) info.LiveStatus, _ = data["live_status"].(string)
info.MediaType, _ = data["media_type"].(string)
if ts, ok := num(data["release_timestamp"]); ok { if ts, ok := num(data["release_timestamp"]); ok {
info.ReleaseTimestamp = int64(ts) info.ReleaseTimestamp = int64(ts)
} }