[FEATURE] Possible to add a --url flag?

[vmasrani]

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Great tool! Its often easier to copy-paste the full youtube url and paste into the terminal, compared to selecting just the id. Is it possible to add a simple 'url' flag that accepts the entire video URL?

Thanks for this! Just what I was looking for!

[kaya70875]

Hi, @vmasrani first of all thank you for your recommendation and I am really glad that you liked ytfetcher.

About the feature, ytfetcher already accepts full url for channel handle and playlist id.

You can just copy and paste the full url and ytfetcher will try to extract the channel id or playlist id from that url.

Here's an example full url's for channel handle parameter, ytfetcher will extract the channel handle from this urls:

- https://www.youtube.com/@handle
- https://www.youtube.com/@handle/
- https://www.youtube.com/@handle/featured
- https://www.youtube.com/@handle/videos

For playlist id:

- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL12345
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL12345&si=abcd
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=abc123&list=PL12345

I am not sure we should add a flag like --url since this is simpler. But using this flag could actually improve code quality.
Since the user experience is more important I'll say we'll keep it like that for now and if it's getting complicated, we can add a --url flag.

The important thing is ytfetcher currently cannot extract channel handle from url's that doesn't have a @ sign like this:

https://www.youtube.com/channel

Also we cannot extract video id from a full url like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Yz4U4XHlM

So maybe we can work on these features, I’m also open to possible PRs and contributions to help with this!

Thank you again for your time!