So I'm slowly learning how to us yt-dlp and I'm trying to set up a default command to check a number of channels for new videos. Currently I have it set to download the first 10 new vids of each channel, and to skip anything past a certain date, but it takes a while to get to the date information I guess, which adds unnecessary time and checks, especially for channels that don't have any vids that are new enough.

What I'd like it to do is skip the rest of the channel if it encounters a video that was published outside the given date range, but I'm not finding anything so far. Does this functionality exist? Or am I just out of luck?

My current command looks like this:

yt-dlp -t sleep -I1-10 --dateafter 20251031 --sponsorblock-remove sponsor --format "bestvideo*[filesize<3G]+bestaudio/best" --concurrent-fragments 25 --force-write-archive -o '%(uploader)s-%(upload_date)s-%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s' --download-archive "archive.md" --batch-file "subscriptions.md"

I generally look forward to these little demo fests. While it's never exactly been a flood of mind blowing games, I usually find a handful of upcoming games that stand out and show some promise. This time around, though, I'm left dispirited by all the slop flooding the lists. Generated slop. Asset-flip slop. The few games that aren't I only find after wading through pages upon pages of rubbish, and then it's a crapshoot on if it seems worth downloading. I eventually gave up and don't have much interest in trying again.

I've long been a fan and supporter of the indie scene, understanding that the diamonds that make it worth it take effort to find. But if this is what we have to look forward to, I'm concerned how it'll fare as the requisite effort to sift through the dregs grows exponentially. Eventually it's just too much.

Currently, I have some filters set up through uBlock to make my Lemmy browsing more tolerable. For keywords, I copied some scripts that look like this, with one line and each word separated by a vertical bar: lemmy.ca##article.row:has-text(/keyword|keyword|keyword|etc/i)

But the url filters I use only seem to work if they are separated into individual lines, e.g.: lemmy.ca##div.post-listing:has([href*="url/"])

lemmy.ca##div.post-listing:has([href*="url/"])

I was wondering if it's possible to condense the url lines to make it a bit more manageable in the same way the keyword filter is.

I downvoted maybe 3 posts for being "unwise", but I guess that's not allowed. Looked up the mod and they banned a wave of people, all for "...". Good stuff.

This "banned for using the functions of the website" shit is really getting out of hand. Unless it's unequivocal support for every post, you're out. It's ridiculous out here.

Also! We still can't block communities we've been banned from? Wtf?