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Any mix of video URLs (watch, youtu.be, /shorts/, /live/), channel URLs (@handle, /channel/UC…, /c/…, /user/…, optionally ending in /videos, /shorts or /streams), playlist URLs and search-result URLs (youtube.com/results?search_query=…).", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "channelTabs": { "title": "Channel tabs", "type": "array", "description": "Which tabs to scrape for channel URLs: Videos, Shorts and/or Live (past and current streams). A channel URL that ends in /shorts, /videos or /streams uses only that tab.", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "videos", "shorts", "streams" ], "enumTitles": [ "Videos", "Shorts", "Live streams" ] }, "default": [ "videos" ] }, "maxVideosPerChannel": { "title": "Max videos per channel tab", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 10000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum items saved from each selected tab of each channel (newest first). 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