A yt-dlp extractor plugin for using custom Youtube chapter lists
Pass --extractor-args "youtube:chapters_file=/path/to/chapters.txt" with your yt-dlp command to have the Youtube extractor parse the given text file for chapters.
The text file should be formatted with 1 chapter per line, with a line structure of START:TIME Chapter Name, e.g.:
00:00 Introduction
01:15 Beginning
02:40 Middle
04:20 End
Requires yt-dlp 2023.01.02 or above.
You can download the wheel of the latest release and place the .whl file in one of yt-dlp's plugin paths.
Or you can install this package with pip:
python3 -m pip install -U https://github.com/bashonly/yt-dlp-YTCustomChapters/archive/master.zip
See the plugins section of the yt-dlp README for more information.