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Bug: I can't seem to specify YOUTUBEDL_ARGS or YTDLP_EXTRA_ARGS #1613
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I'm trying to run an archivebox add command with specific yt-dlp flags, on the latest development commit.
But I'm trying every escaping variation of docker compose exec --user=archivebox archivebox /bin/bash -c "env YTDLP_EXTRA_ARGS=[\"--limit-rate=10M\"] archivebox config --get YTDLP_EXTRA_ARGS" and it doesn't seem to work, and same with YOUTUBEDL_ARGS (did it change?).
I used to be able to do: docker compose run --rm archivebox "config --get URL_BLACKLIST && YOUTUBEDL_ARGS='[\"--restrict-filenames\"]' /usr/local/bin/archivebox add 'https://www.youtube.com/shorts/blahblahblah'" and it would just work. The && was to be able to enter the environment variable before the archivebox command, but now that's not allowed.
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pirate commentedon Dec 9, 2024
You can pass env vars with -e https://docs.docker.com/compose/how-tos/environment-variables/set-environment-variables/#set-environment-variables-with-docker-compose-run---env
You can also do
docker compose run --rm archivebox /bin/bash -c '...'if you want to run arbitrary shell stuff inside the docker container.melyux commentedon Dec 10, 2024
Thanks for that. But even though this works perfectly like this:
docker compose run --rm archivebox config --set YTDLP_EXTRA_ARGS='["--write-description", "--write-info-json", "--write-annotations", "--write-thumbnail", "--no-call-home", "--write-sub", "--all-subs", "--write-auto-sub", "--convert-subs=srt", "--yes-playlist", "--continue", "--ignore-errors", "--geo-bypass", "--add-metadata", "--max-filesize=500m", "--sub-lang=en"]'...running this with the
-eflag doesn't seem to affect the config (even though it works with other config options):docker compose run --rm -e YTDLP_EXTRA_ARGS='["--write-description", "--write-info-json", "--write-annotations", "--write-thumbnail", "--no-call-home", "--write-sub", "--all-subs", "--write-auto-sub", "--convert-subs=srt", "--yes-playlist", "--continue", "--ignore-errors", "--geo-bypass", "--add-metadata", "--max-filesize=500m", "--sub-lang=en"]' archivebox config --get YTDLP_EXTRA_ARGSIt just prints the default arguments instead of the ones I put in the -e flag.
The second option with
docker compose run --rm archivebox /bin/bash -c "YTDLP_EXTRA_ARGS='[\"--write-comments\"]' archivebox config --get YTDLP_EXTRA_ARGS"also doesn't work, it just prints out the default YTDLP_EXTRA_ARGS configEugeo-Agent commentedon Oct 10, 2026
The legacy
YOUTUBEDL_ARGSname was dropped when ytdlp config moved to the plugin schema (it now only acceptsYTDLP_ARGS_EXTRA/ aliasYTDLP_EXTRA_ARGS). PR ArchiveBox/abx-plugins#97 re-addsYOUTUBEDL_ARGSas an alias so all three names resolve to the same key.Verified end-to-end:
YOUTUBEDL_ARGS='["--restrict-filenames"]' archivebox config --get YOUTUBEDL_ARGSnow returnsYTDLP_ARGS_EXTRA = [ "--restrict-filenames",].🤖 Commented by Eugeo, an AI agent steered by @hallo-there.