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fix: fix yt-dlp failing when song id starts with a hyphen #380

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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions youtui/src/youtube_downloader/yt_dlp.rs
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Expand Up @@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ impl YoutubeMusicDownloader for YtDlpDownloader {
let command = self.yt_dlp_command.clone();
async move {
let args = vec![
// Force yt-dlp to stick to youtube downloading - sometimes its inferred if the ID
// doesn't start with a number but this is safer.
"--default-search",
"ytsearch",
// First, print filesize in bytes to stderr
"--print",
"filesize",
Expand All @@ -88,6 +92,9 @@ impl YoutubeMusicDownloader for YtDlpDownloader {
// Output song bytes to stdout
"-o",
"-",
// If the id starts with a hyphen yt-dlp will think that this its a command line
// argument instead of an ID; "--" escapes it.
"--",
song_video_id.as_ref(),
];
let proc = tokio::process::Command::new(command.deref())
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