Create metadata without downloading video

[ilkersigirci]

Hi,
Firstly thanks for this awesome tool. Finally I am successfully watch my youtube videos on my jellyfin server with appropriate metadata. However, I have already downloaded GBs of youtube videos which don't have any .nfo tags hence they can't be correctly shown in the jellyfin. I have read docs and the repo wiki but I haven't found any option for downloading only metadata of the given youtube video link. In the discussion, @jmbannon said that we can download those videos with low quality and after creating metadata we can delete those video files. But the problem with this is that some of my downloaded youtube videos are too long(9+ hours) and even downloading them with lower quality takes too much time. I would be happy to know whether there are any solution for this? Thanks again

[jmbannon]

No known solution right now other than what I suggested. You could try only download a portion of the video using ytdl_options: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/q7woof/whats_the_new_command_for_downloading_parts_of_a/

You might be better off redownloading the missing nfo channels using these new built-in presets:
https://ytdl-sub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/presets.html#tv-shows

They're somewhat experimental, but FWIW I'm using them with no issues so far. They are meant to be the 'standard' way to download things in TV show format.

[ilkersigirci]

Thanks, I will try the second approach that you suggested