diff --git a/cli/yt-dlp.nix b/cli/yt-dlp.nix
index f998787..90126db 100644
--- a/cli/yt-dlp.nix
+++ b/cli/yt-dlp.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,38 @@
 let
   name = "yt-dlp";
   cfg = config.nixowos.cli.${name};
+
+  serialize =
+    let
+      serializeValue =
+        value: prepend:
+        if builtins.isBool value then
+          ""
+        else
+          prepend
+          + (
+            if builtins.isString value then
+              value
+            else if builtins.isList value then
+              builtins.concatStringsSep "," value
+            else if builtins.isAttrs value then
+              lib.concatMapAttrsStringSep "," (key: value: "${key}:${value}") value
+            else
+              abort "invalid ${name} config value: ${value}"
+          );
+    in
+
+    set:
+    lib.strings.concatMapAttrsStringSep "\n" (
+      key: value:
+      if builtins.isBool value && !value then
+        ""
+      else if builtins.stringLength key == 1 then
+        "-${key}${serializeValue value ""}"
+      else
+        "--${key}${serializeValue value "="}"
+    ) set
+    + "\n";
 in
 {
   options.nixowos.cli.${name} = {
@@ -15,25 +47,37 @@ in
 
     package = lib.mkPackageOption pkgs name { };
 
-    extraConfig = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.listOf lib.types.str;
-      description = "List of commandline arguments";
-      default = [
-        "--no-write-auto-subs"
-        "--sub-langs=all,-live_chat"
+    settings = lib.mkOption {
+      type =
+        with lib.types;
+        attrsOf (oneOf [
+          bool
+          str
+          (listOf str)
+          (attrsOf str)
+        ]);
 
-        "--embed-subs"
-        "--embed-metadata"
-        "--embed-chapters"
-        "--sponsorblock-mark=all"
+      default = {
+        no-write-auto-subs = true;
+        sub-langs = [
+          "all"
+          "-live_chat"
+        ];
 
-        "--paths=temp:/tmp"
-      ];
+        embed-subs = true;
+        embed-metadata = true;
+        embed-chapters = true;
+        sponsorblock-mark = "all";
+
+        paths = {
+          "temp" = "/tmp";
+        };
+      };
     };
   };
 
   config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
     environment.systemPackages = [ cfg.package ];
-    environment.etc."${name}.conf".text = builtins.concatStringsSep "\n" cfg.extraConfig;
+    environment.etc."${name}.conf".text = serialize cfg.settings;
   };
 }