[GH-ISSUE #55] Add additional info regarding Manual Media Files Import procedure #15

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opened 2026-03-23 20:37:39 +00:00 by mirror · 0 comments

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Originally created by @IAmABakuAMA on GitHub (Mar 8, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/tubearchivist/docs/issues/55

Relevant section:
Docs > settings > actions > Manual Media Files Import > Method 1
(https://docs.tubearchivist.com/settings/actions/#manual-media-files-import)

Per https://discord.com/channels/920056098122248193/1347902272063012885/1347929962656829440, the documentation for importing YouTube videos manually is slightly unclear for beginners, specifically the section regarding the .info.json sidecar. A couple of notable fields that could be added to improve clarity:

upload_date expects a "YYYYMMDD" format, without any hyphens or separators. The date needs to be surrounded by double quotes.
description requires double quotes around the value.
categories is the "video category" value, which doesn't appear to be displayed on the web GUI/frontend any more. Requires double quotes.
view_count expects a raw string, with no commas between decimal places, for instance 3333333 instead of 3,333,333 This value doesn't require quotes around the value.

Originally created by @IAmABakuAMA on GitHub (Mar 8, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/tubearchivist/docs/issues/55 Relevant section: Docs > settings > actions > Manual Media Files Import > Method 1 (https://docs.tubearchivist.com/settings/actions/#manual-media-files-import) Per https://discord.com/channels/920056098122248193/1347902272063012885/1347929962656829440, the documentation for importing YouTube videos manually is slightly unclear for beginners, specifically the section regarding the <video-ID>.info.json sidecar. A couple of notable fields that could be added to improve clarity: - `upload_date` expects a "YYYYMMDD" format, without any hyphens or separators. The date needs to be surrounded by double quotes. - `description` requires double quotes around the value. - `categories` is the "video category" value, which doesn't appear to be displayed on the web GUI/frontend any more. Requires double quotes. - `view_count` expects a raw string, with no commas between decimal places, for instance 3333333 instead of 3,333,333 This value doesn't require quotes around the value.