Youtube Channel profile picture download feature request. (--profile-picture)
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- I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.03.14
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Description
Hi I am requesting a feature to download the profile pictures of Youtube channels. Although I know a way to download by just changing some values out of the profile link maybe you can program it in the youtube-dl for automation.
first open up a youtube channel for eg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNeOeCvRK0pDv3kKZj6xUFQ
now right click on profile picture and view it (In Firefox browser)
now you get a link in the opened tab https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AAUvwniM79AKFrUQMLOgCRRRhESud3DikoGd3tbuAwQi=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj
by changing the value s88 to s1024 we get the full view of the profile picture
here is the edited link https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AAUvwniM79AKFrUQMLOgCRRRhESud3DikoGd3tbuAwQi=s1024-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj
you can automate the process and add the feature to youtube-dl. Use --profile-picture as the argument to be used for the extraction of image through youtube-dl.
Also some other suggestions for argument instead of --profile-picture --user-picture --picture --profile-photo --pp --photo
Source: ytdl-org/youtube-dl