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Feature Request: Filter downloads by available audio language track (Multi-audio / Auto-dub) #957
Description
Currently, many YouTube channels are uploading videos with auto-translated or multi-language audio tracks (e.g. Spanish dubs).
It would be great to have a native option in Youtarr per channel to only download videos that contain a specific audio language track (e.g., Spanish/es), skipping videos from channels that do not have that language option available yet.
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dialmaster commentedon Oct 26, 2026
I looked into this, and I don't plan to add it.
yt-dlp doesn't make this easy to filter on. A video's "language" is only its original audio, and the dubbed tracks are buried in the list of download formats. If Youtarr asked for a Spanish track and the video didn't have one, yt-dlp would treat that as a failed download, not a skipped video. Youtarr would then retry it every run and send failure notifications. Working around that would take a lot of extra code and an extra YouTube request for every video.
BigFlubba commentedon Oct 27, 2026
The only way that I know to do this is to download every video and use FFmpeg to filter through the audio. This can be done in a Tdarr flow, but doing this is a lot of extra work, but it can be done.