A little script that will set the modified time of YouTube videos that have been downloaded with youtube-dl or yt-dlp.
- First install Leiningen
git clone git@github.com:quanticle/youtube-mtime-updater- Get an API Key for YouTube
- Place the API key
resources/client-key - Build the code with
lein uberjar
The code reads a sequence of files or directories from standard input, delimited by newlines. If the input is a file, it will hit the YouTube API and update the mtime for that file. If the input is a directory, the code will recurse into the directory, updating the mtimes on all YouTube videos located in that directory (and subdirectories). The code assumes that the files have their YouTube video IDs in the file name, either in youtube-dl format (i.e. <title>-<video_id>.<extension>) or yt-dlp format (i.e. <title> [<video_id>].<extension>).
YouTube video titles often include Unicode characters outside of the normal ASCII range, so on Windows PowerShell, set the following options:
[Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$env:JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS = "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
This works around a known issue with Java on Windows, where it assumes that input text is encoded using Cp1252, unless specifically told otherwise. The above step is not necessary on Linux or MacOS.
Copyright © 2022 Rohit Patnaik
This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License 3.0 which is available at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html.