— specifically the player_response that contained direct video URLs. The bot broke for 6 hours. Users panicked. Some dude in a crypto group offered $500 to fix it in an hour (Alex declined — ethics). User sends a playlist URL or command: /playlist
Step 5: Use the Bot
To create a Telegram bot, you'll need to talk to the BotFather bot in Telegram. Here's how: download whole playlist as ZIP
User sends a playlist URL or command: /playlist
Bot validates the URL and checks user quotas.
Bot fetches playlist metadata with yt-dlp (titles, durations, video IDs).
Bot presents options (download single video, download whole playlist as ZIP, audio-only).
For selected option, enqueue a download job.
Worker downloads videos via yt-dlp, converts/merges with ffmpeg if needed, and stores files.
Bot sends files to user (directly as Telegram documents or via temporary hosted links).
Clean up temporary files after delivery and update logs.