ERROR: Unable to download video: [Errno 36] Filename too long

[holotone]

This happens frequently with Twitter video downloads. It appears metube uses the entire text of the Twitter post as the filename, and this is reaching some kind of limit somewhere. When this happens I get the following error message:

ERROR: Unable to download video: [Errno 36] Filename too long

Don't hesitate to ask if you need any more info.

[PikuZheng]

duplicate of #56
This is usually a file system limitation. Most os limit file names to a maximum of 255 characters.

[holotone]

Agreed, wouldn't it be an easy fix to have metube truncate file names to less than 255 characters?

[trekGriffin]

add an environment variable to this container. This will fix it.
environment:
- 'YTDL_OPTIONS={"trim_file_name":10}'

[holotone]

add an environment variable to this container. This will fix it. environment: - 'YTDL_OPTIONS={"trim_file_name":10}'

That worked great, thanks a bunch!