Search format enhancements

CHANGES.md

@@ -31,14 +31,16 @@ All the below changes were made as a part of #690.
 - Display a combined *download & encode* progress bar.
 
 ### Changed
-- **[Breaking]** Tracks are now downloaded in the current working directory (instead of Music directory)
-  by default.
+- **[Breaking]** Tracks are now downloaded in the current working directory (instead of
+  user's Music directory) by default.
 - **[Breaking]** Short for `--album` is now `-a` instead of `-b`.
 - **[Breaking]** Short for `--all-albums` is now `-aa` instead of `-ab`.
 - Allow "&" character in filenames.
 - **[Breaking]** Merge parameters `-ff` and `-f` to `-f` (`--output-file`).
 - **[Breaking]** Do not prefix formats with a dot when specifying `-i` and `-o` parameters
   Such as `-o .mp3` is now written as `-o mp3`.
+- **[Breaking]** Search format now uses hyphen for word break instead of underscore. Such as
+  `-sf "{artist} - {track_name}"` is now written as `-sf "{artist} - {track-name}"`.
 - Partial re-write and internal API refactor.
 - Enhance debug log output readability.
 - Internally adapt to latest changes made in Spotipy library.

spotdl/command_line/arguments.py

@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ def get_arguments(argv=None, base_config_file=spotdl.config.default_config_file)
         default=config["output_file"],
         help="path where to write the downloaded track to, special tags "
         "are to be surrounded by curly braces. Possible tags: "
+        # TODO: Add possible tags
         # "{}".format([spotdl.util.formats[x] for x in spotdl.util.formats]),
     )
     parser.add_argument(
@@ -167,6 +168,7 @@ def get_arguments(argv=None, base_config_file=spotdl.config.default_config_file)
         default=config["search_format"],
         help="search format to search for on YouTube, special tags "
         "are to be surrounded by curly braces. Possible tags: "
+        # TODO: Add possible tags
         # "{}".format([spotdl.util.formats[x] for x in spotdl.util.formats]),
     )
     parser.add_argument(
@@ -198,7 +200,8 @@ def get_arguments(argv=None, base_config_file=spotdl.config.default_config_file)
         "-ns",
         "--no-spaces",
         default=config["no_spaces"],
-        help="replace spaces with underscores in file names",
+        help="replace spaces in metadata values with underscores when "
+        "generating filenames",
         action="store_true",
     )
     parser.add_argument(

spotdl/metadata/providers/youtube.py

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ class YouTubeSearch:
     def search(self, query, limit=10, retries=5):
         """ Search and scrape YouTube to return a list of matching videos. """
         search_url = self.generate_search_url(query)
-        logger.debug('Fetching YouTube results for "{}".'.format(search_url))
+        logger.debug('Fetching YouTube results for "{}" at "{}".'.format(query, search_url))
         html = self._fetch_response_html(search_url)
         videos = self._fetch_search_results(html, limit=limit)
         to_retry = retries > 0 and self._is_server_side_invalid_response(videos, html)

spotdl/metadata_search.py

@@ -181,10 +181,6 @@ class MetadataSearch:
     def _on_youtube_and_spotify_for_type_spotify(self):
         logger.debug("Extracting YouTube and Spotify metadata for input Spotify URI.")
         spotify_metadata = self._on_spotify_for_type_spotify(self.track)
-        lyric_query = spotdl.metadata.format_string(
-            "{artist} - {track-name}",
-            spotify_metadata,
-        )
         search_query = spotdl.metadata.format_string(self.yt_search_format, spotify_metadata)
         youtube_video = self._best_on_youtube_search_for_type_spotify(search_query)
         youtube_metadata = self.providers["youtube"].from_url(youtube_video["url"])
@@ -197,7 +193,7 @@ class MetadataSearch:
     def _on_youtube_and_spotify_for_type_youtube(self):
         logger.debug("Extracting YouTube and Spotify metadata for input YouTube URL.")
         youtube_metadata = self._on_youtube_for_type_youtube(self.track)
-        search_query = spotdl.metadata.format_string(self.yt_search_format, youtube_metadata)
+        search_query = spotdl.metadata.format_string("{track-name}", youtube_metadata)
         spotify_metadata = self._on_spotify_for_type_query(search_query)
         metadata = spotdl.util.merge(
             youtube_metadata,
@@ -208,7 +204,6 @@ class MetadataSearch:
     def _on_youtube_and_spotify_for_type_query(self):
         logger.debug("Extracting YouTube and Spotify metadata for input track query.")
         search_query = self.track
-        lyric_query = search_query
         # Make use of threads here to search on both YouTube & Spotify
         # at the same time.
         spotify_metadata = spotdl.util.ThreadWithReturnValue(
@@ -226,10 +221,6 @@ class MetadataSearch:
     def _on_youtube_for_type_spotify(self):
         logger.debug("Extracting YouTube metadata for input Spotify URI.")
         spotify_metadata = self._on_spotify_for_type_spotify(self.track)
-        lyric_query = spotdl.metadata.format_string(
-            "{artist} - {track-name}",
-            spotify_metadata,
-        )
         search_query = spotdl.metadata.format_string(self.yt_search_format, spotify_metadata)
         youtube_video = self._best_on_youtube_search_for_type_spotify(search_query)
         youtube_metadata = self.providers["youtube"].from_url(youtube_video["url"])
@@ -249,7 +240,7 @@ class MetadataSearch:
     def _on_spotify_for_type_youtube(self, url):
         logger.debug("Extracting Spotify metadata for input YouTube URL.")
         youtube_metadata = self.providers["youtube"].from_url(url)
-        search_query = spotdl.metadata.format_string(self.yt_search_format, youtube_metadata)
+        search_query = spotdl.metadata.format_string("{track-name}", youtube_metadata)
         spotify_metadata = self.providers["spotify"].from_query(search_query)
         return spotify_metadata