Smartnaming syntax V10

The smartnaming file describes how the filename of a video is constructed.

Here is a valid file:

# Default rule
max_length = 64
template = "%title"

[[rule]] # First rule - only for pages hosted under foo.com domain
url = "foo.com"
template = "foobar-%title"

[[rule]] # Second rule - only for pages hosted under bar.com domain
url = "bar.com"
max_length = 99
template = "%title-%hostname-%selector"
selector = "h2.title"

# Etc. Add as many rules as you want.

The first part is the default rules for all websites. You can set the max_length and the template. VDH use the value template of template to create file. If template is myvideo, then all video files will be named myvideo.mp4. If template is myvideo-%title, video files will named myvideo-title-of-webpage.mp4. You can see that the default value is juste the title of the page with a maximum size of 64 characters.

The second part is made of [[rule]] blocks. Each block can define:

• max_length is the maximum filename size
• template is the format of the filename. This can include 3 components:
  • %title is replaced with the page title
  • %hostname is replaced with the url hostname
  • %selector is replaced with the matching selector (see below)
• url is the URL of the origin of the download.
• selector is a CSS selector that will be run against the video page

One rule starts with [[rule]].

The priority of a rule is defined by its position in the file. Top rules have higher priorities.