Custom log file names

[resucutie]

It is hard to manage a big list of log files with them named "SpamLog-numbers and letters". So my idea is to introduce to customizable names. My idea is to add a setting called "log_name" that will allow you to put custom names in them as how much as you want. There will also be included custom props:

• {channel}: The name of the channel
• {video}: The name of the scanned video
• {videos_list}: A list of all scanned video names (if scanned multiple)
• {videos_counter}: A count of all scanned video names
• {date}: The date that the log file was created
• {time}: The time that the log file was created

[TechStudent10]

I support this

[ThioJoe]

Hm yea this could probably be done

[Firecul]

{videos_list} would probably get very unusable very quickly.

In the Windows API [...] the maximum length for a path is MAX_PATH, which is defined as 260 characters.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=cmd

File names also have a limit of around 255 in most file systems (or OSes anyway)

[resucutie]

good point

[Firecul]

What about a modification of the idea, a log folder structure? {Channel Name} > Logs with your suggested optional names e.g. {video}-{date}-{time}.txt

[TechStudent10]

Also a good idea!

[resucutie]

Maybe {video} at {date} {time}.txt. Usually people uses spaces instead of dashes

[Firecul]

One thing I thought about as an extention to this idea would be to save it like that with {channel} > {video id} {date} {time}.txt and the program could check last scanned date and (configurably) skip if it's within a certain time frame to save API calls. Best used when scanning multiple videos from a channel.