Wrapper doesn't return all videos from Instagram carousel

[mostafa-norouzi]

Hi,
I have below sample code to fetch videos from Instagram carousel :

  $yt = new YoutubeDl();

    $yt->debug(function ($type, $buffer) {

        if (\Symfony\Component\Process\Process::ERR === $type) {
            error_log ('ERR> ' . $buffer);
        }

    });

    $options = Options::create()
        ->downloadPath($folder)
        ->writeThumbnail(true)
        ->restrictFileNames(true)
        ->limitRate('2M')
        ->retries('2')
        ->userAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:128.0) Gecko/128.0 Firefox/128.0')
        ->mergeOutputFormat('mp4')
        ->remuxVideo('mp4')
        ->output("%(title)s.$quality.%(ext)s")
        ->url($url);

    $collection = $yt->download(
        $options
    );


    foreach ($collection->getVideos() as $video) {
        if ($video->getError() !== null) {

           // $reply->msg = $video->getError();

        } else {
            error_log($video->getFile());
        }
    }

When I check the output folder on disk, there are three videos but PHP [foreach loop] only logs last one. So how can I get path of others?

[norkunas]

If you would log everything in debug mode, what does it show?

[mostafa-norouzi]

This is the whole log :

 [Instagram] Extracting URL: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4GhVSIqClB
 [Instagram] C4GhVSIqClB: Setting up session
 [Instagram] C4GhVSIqClB: Downloading JSON metadata
 [download] Downloading playlist: Post by birdsonearth
 [info] Writing playlist metadata as JSON to: public_html/youtube/bot/files/61836014/1733558916.Post_by_birdsonearth.360.info.json
 [info] There are no playlist thumbnails to download
 [Instagram] Playlist Post by birdsonearth: Downloading 2 items of 2
 [download] Downloading item 1 of 2
 [info] C4GhR8sqVB3: Downloading 1 format(s): 0
 [info] Downloading video thumbnail 0 ...
 [info] Writing video thumbnail 0 to: public_html/youtube/bot/files/61836014/1733558916.Video_1.360.jpg
 [info] Writing video metadata as JSON to: public_html/youtube/bot/files/61836014/1733558916.Video_1.360.info.json
 [download] Destination: public_html/youtube/bot/files/61836014/1733558916.Video_1.360.mp4
 
[download]   0.1% of  684.84KiB at  Unknown B/s ETA Unknown

[download]   0.4% of  684.84KiB at    1.45MiB/s ETA 00:00  
[download]   1.0% of  684.84KiB at    1.80MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]   2.2% of  684.84KiB at    1.49MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]   4.5% of  684.84KiB at    1.86MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]   9.2% of  684.84KiB at    1.96MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]  18.5% of  684.84KiB at    1.96MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]  37.2% of  684.84KiB at    1.98MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]  74.6% of  684.84KiB at    1.99MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 100.0% of  684.84KiB at    1.99MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 100% of  684.84KiB in 00:00:05 at 127.53KiB/s 
[VideoRemuxer] Not remuxing media file "public_html/youtube/bot/files/61836014/1733558916.Video_1.360.mp4"; already is in target format mp4
[download] Downloading item 2 of 2
[info] C4GhTZRKQL_: Downloading 1 format(s): 0
[info] Downloading video thumbnail 0 ...

[info] Writing video thumbnail 0 to: public_html/youtube/bot/files/61836014/1733558916.Video_2.360.jpg
[info] Writing video metadata as JSON to: public_html/youtube/bot/files/61836014/1733558916.Video_2.360.info.json
[download] Destination: public_html/youtube/bot/files/61836014/1733558916.Video_2.360.mp4

[download]   0.1% of    1.05MiB at  914.59KiB/s ETA 00:01
[download]   0.3% of    1.05MiB at    1.54MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]   0.7% of    1.05MiB at    1.82MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]   1.4% of    1.05MiB at    1.42MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]   2.9% of    1.05MiB at    1.95MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]   5.9% of    1.05MiB at    1.97MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]  11.9% of    1.05MiB at    1.98MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]  23.8% of    1.05MiB at    1.98MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]  47.7% of    1.05MiB at    1.99MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download]  95.5% of    1.05MiB at    1.99MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 100.0% of    1.05MiB at    1.99MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 100% of    1.05MiB in 00:00:05 at 192.61KiB/s 
[VideoRemuxer] Not remuxing media file "public_html/youtube/bot/files/61836014/1733558916.Video_2.360.mp4"; already is in target format mp4
[info] Writing updated playlist metadata as JSON to: public_html/youtube/bot/files/61836014/1733558916.Post_by_birdsonearth.360.info.json
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Post by birdsonearth

Do you have any idea?

[norkunas]

This library has only tests for youtube playlists, as it was never tested with other providers, so this will need some updates.
Basically currently it is always expected that yt-dl will print [provider] id: Downloading webpage line before starting video download or [download] Destination: path_to_file when it was completed, so basically this always find only destination part and overrides previous one. But I won't be able to put some time on this for now.

[mostafa-norouzi]

I get that.

You suggest I make a temporary folder in each request and create a list of all videos on it or just check the output log and retrieve a list from it? I mean which strategy is more trusted?

[norkunas]

I'd suggest to contribute and fix this :)

Depends on what are your needs. If for you only files are enough, then yes, easy solution would be to scan in temporary path