What is the downloader option --restrict-filenames for python youtube-dl

Question

Hello all I was wondering what the option is for the python based version of youtube-dl for this argument in terminal --restrict-filenames? What does the options in python does the tuple need to have added to it?

Thanks in advance, Ondeckshooting

Answer 1

Per the documentation, that option does not require an argument. So a command such as this will suffice:

youtube-dl --restrict-filenames 73VCKpU9ZnA

Here is the option detail:

Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in filenames

As far as what ASCII is, this script will reveal:

#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN {
  while (z++ < 0x7e) {
    $0 = sprintf("%c", z)
    if (/[[:graph:]]/) printf $0
  }
}

Result

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~