Optional `player_responses` parameter needed
Author: acuna-publicCreated Sep 16, 2026Updated Sep 17, 2026
Labelssite-enhancementtriagesite:youtube
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- I've read the NO AI / NO LLM POLICY and understand I may be blocked from the repository if it is violated
- I'm requesting a feature unrelated to a specific site
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I need to get engagementPanels to get artist, track, album etc. info which %(track)s, %(artist)s templates don't return unfortunately to add it to downloaded video name. player_responses contains it in saint of saints _real_extract() method of YouTube extractor but final dictionary don't contains it, so it would be nice to get an optional player_responses YoutubeDL class parameter to append this in current extract_info() dictionary (and probably --player-responses CLI argument). I know that engagementPanels parsed to get comments and likes info but not video music info so I can get it manually.
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
- Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (
yt-dlp -vU <your command line>) - If using API, add
'verbose': TruetoYoutubeDLparams instead - Copy the WHOLE output (starting with
[debug] Command-line config) and insert it below
Complete Verbose Output
Source: yt-dlp/yt-dlp