youtube-dl datemodified is not upload date.
abayochocoball opened this issue · 1 comments
Youtube-dl --add-metadata sets LastWriteTime property file of video to the last-modified http header returned by *.googlevideo.com. Usually this matches the upload date, but not in all cases. Example video, w9ptiG0MvxU, has upload date of 2019-07-04 but last modified date of 2019-12-18. This makes it difficult to use that value to sort videos chronologically unless the date uploaded is in the file name and file name structure is well structured so that sorting alphabetically will give you a chronological sorting as well.
Depending on the importance of knowing the value of last-modified is, it might be more beneficial to write the upload date as the last modified date instead.
For the most part, depending on the date in the filename should be good enough but a note of this should be made.
This is pretty pointless. Won't do.