Needing help with a YouTube DLP Script issue I'm having

[DawnB]

I'm still new to all of this so here goes: I have a script

yt-dlp -x --audio-format opus --audio-quality 0 --split-chapters -o "C:/Users/User/Music/YouTube Music/%(uploader)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s/%(section_number)s - %(section_title)s.%(ext)s"

here is the issue's I'm having:

I have tried this script with a playlist I made and it did not separate the videos with chapters into chapters but the 2 songs without chapters still got there own folders. And the file naming was "NA-NA.opus" as well. So I have a description below of what I'm trying to do.

Example if I download a YouTuber channel and there are 100 videos and 15 videos have chapters it should have 1 main folder and then inside the main folder should be (15) folder for each video with chapters and inside each chapter there should be multiple opus files each one titled the name of the chapter or something like "Video Name - Chapter Name" and then I can just use a file editor later and remove all "Video Name - " later like with "Bulk Renamer Utility".

And all (85) other songs should be left alone inside the main folder named after the Uploader. And there names should be the same as the video names.

I hope someone here can help me with my issue.

When I asked on Google Search it said maybe the Chapters had not been split because YouTube was not chaptering the video correctly. But under the video information there was time stamps for all (5) chapters for the video I was trying to break into (5) different audio files. So I don't know what is going on. I think the script is incorrect. I even tried a different video and I went directly to the video playing and seen the switch chapter button under the video as well as the time stamps in the description area and used that videos URL and still it dose not work. I think I have made the script incorrectly. And needing some help fixing it please.

[abolibibelot]

Could this be simply because you didn't double the “%” signs in the .bat script? (Yes, even those used to identify yt-dlp's templates, in the command prompt / CMD console it's “%(whatever)s” but in a .bat script it has to be “%%(whatever)s”.)
You can check the output of each template by writing a test script with something like:

set /P link=
yt-dlp %link% --print %%(uploader)s --print %%(playlist_index)s --print %%(title)s --print %%(section_number)s --print %%(section_title)s --print %%(ext)s

Not sure at which point you specify a link for the yt-dlp command.
Never used -x, apparently it's meant to extract the audio, and with “--audio-format opus --audio-quality 0” it chooses the same stream as “-f 251”, except it's saved with no extra container (which would be WEBM by default in that case).

W:\>yt-dlp -F 9mwokiKf4QE
[youtube] Extracting URL: 9mwokiKf4QE
[youtube] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading android vr player API JSON
[youtube] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading web player API JSON
[youtube] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading web safari player API JSON
[info] Available formats for 9mwokiKf4QE:
ID  EXT   RESOLUTION FPS CH |   FILESIZE   TBR PROTO | VCODEC        VBR ACODEC      ABR ASR MORE INFO
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sb2 mhtml 48x27        5    |                  mhtml | images                                storyboard
sb1 mhtml 80x45        1    |                  mhtml | images                                storyboard
sb0 mhtml 160x90       1    |                  mhtml | images                                storyboard
139 m4a   audio only      2 |  127.38KiB   49k https | audio only        mp4a.40.5   49k 22k [en] low, m4a_dash
140 m4a   audio only      2 |  335.43KiB  130k https | audio only        mp4a.40.2  130k 44k [en] medium, m4a_dash
251 webm  audio only      2 |  258.89KiB  101k https | audio only        opus       101k 48k [en] medium, webm_dash
160 mp4   256x144     24    |  256.50KiB  100k https | avc1.4d400c  100k video only          144p, mp4_dash
134 mp4   640x360     24    |  967.05KiB  375k https | avc1.4d401e  375k video only          360p, mp4_dash
18  mp4   640x360     24  2 | ~  1.27MiB  505k https | avc1.42001E       mp4a.40.2       44k [en] 360p
136 mp4   1280x720    24    |    3.57MiB 1418k https | avc1.64001f 1418k video only          720p, mp4_dash

W:\>yt-dlp -x --audio-format opus --audio-quality 0 9mwokiKf4QE
[youtube] Extracting URL: 9mwokiKf4QE
[youtube] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading android vr player API JSON
[youtube] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading web player API JSON
[youtube] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading web safari player API JSON
[info] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading 1 format(s): 251
[download] Destination: Dexter - FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! [9mwokiKf4QE].webm
[download] 100% of  258.89KiB in 00:00:00 at 811.56KiB/s
[ExtractAudio] Destination: Dexter - FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! [9mwokiKf4QE].opus
Deleting original file Dexter - FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! [9mwokiKf4QE].webm (pass -k to keep)

W:\>yt-dlp -f 251 9mwokiKf4QE
[youtube] Extracting URL: 9mwokiKf4QE
[youtube] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading android vr player API JSON
[youtube] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading web player API JSON
[youtube] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading web safari player API JSON
[info] 9mwokiKf4QE: Downloading 1 format(s): 251
[download] Destination: Dexter - FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! [9mwokiKf4QE].webm
[download] 100% of  258.89KiB in 00:00:00 at 914.80KiB/s