Is it possible to use format strings with the command line options?

[hikineet0]

I want to specify the download directory for each artist with my own chosen name, instead of what {user_name} gets me. Is there a way I can use format strings with the --directory option? Basically, I want to specify the following directory list with the command line options.

"directory": ["{category}", "{service}", "{username} ({user})", "\fF {id}_{title.encode('utf-8')[:255].decode('utf-8', 'ignore')}"]

[mikf]

Not with --directory, that is always interpreted as a static value.

It could potentially be done with -o directory=…, except that's a massive pain since you'd have to backslash escape certain quotes.

A simpler way would be to use the keywords option to overwrite username with your own custom value:

-o keywords.username=CUSTOMNAME

[hikineet0]

A simpler way would be to use the keywords option to overwrite username with your own custom value:

-o keywords.username=CUSTOMNAME

Yeah, that's what I was looking for, thank you!