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yt-dlp and gallery-dl support

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What is your current rclone version (output from rclone version)?

v1.60.1

What problem are you are trying to solve?

RClone currently cannot grab online video, audio, and image sites, and implementing each site individually would take too much work.

How do you think rclone should be changed to solve that?

RClone should support mounting channels/playlists and video/audio via yt-dlp (and possibly galleries and images from gallery-dl) in the main format provided, only downloading/accessing the data when the system requests the file. yt-dlp and gallery-dl have pretty robust APIs. Folder organization (via channel, date, site, etc) would be a charm as well

yt-dlp -j --no-warnings -i --playlist-reverse --flat-playlist "(insert the url here)"| jq -r ".urls" prints the urls from a playlist
yt-dlp (video url) -O title prints the title
yt-dlp (video url) -O description prints the description
yt-dlp (url) -j prints a JSON object with all the metadata provided
yt-dlp (url) -o url prints the raw URL of the video

gallery-dl --get-urls (url) prints raw image urls

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the rclone mount behavior and the yt-dlp and gallery-dl command examples listed in the issue. Define how playlists, metadata, raw media URLs, and on-demand access should map into mounted folders, then verify the scope against current rclone capabilities.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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