Download Playlist To Youtube-dl
Cean Conway
As I said in the title. I would like to create a playlist on youtube and download the entire thing. I tried searching this sub for an answer but all I found were how to tweak stuff in a more advanced manner. Not how to start doing it. Sorry if this has been posted before.
NOTE :- If you install youtube-dl from Ubuntu software center. You can't update it from terminal.
Go Software center and update from it.
I test this commands on Wine because my youtube-dl also old. And I am unable to Update it.
If you can update your youtube-dl you can download play-list by using above commands.
I hope it helps...
to download a playlist from YouTube, but I was wondering if there is a way I can, for example, download videos 2 through 8 (out of a playlist of 10 for example) or the first 5 videos or the last 6 videos or even from video 7 onward?
I want to download a play list from youtube, where the first 6 videos in the playlist have been deleted by their channel. When I tried to download it using youtube-dl, it's getting interupted because the first video was not found. Then it is terminating, but not continuing to download the next video. How can I download the playlist from the 7nth video in the play list and onwards.
Today I tried this application to download a youtube playlist. Anyway, I tried to stop the process using CTRL+C and it just opens again and continues, until I close the terminal. Also, if I try to download a playlist, it stucks at the end of the first video. Anyone else has the same issues ?
As mentioned in that last few posts of the report you linked to. Your playlist url likely contained an ampersand, which has a special meaning on terminals and will lead to the youtube-dl job being backgrounded (hence you can't simply kill it with ctrl-c because it isn't in the foreground) read the link provided by dstftw as the last post provided in that conversation.
You have a lot of options when it comes to downloading YouTube videos or videos from other video sites. One of the most advanced programs for that kind of task is youtube-dl. Since it is a command line program, it may not be the first choice for users who don't feel comfortable running commands on the command line.
While that is understandable, especially for single videos that you may want to download, you may miss out on one of the best tools that is available today. One of youtube-dl's strengths is the ability to download multiple videos from all supported sites.
This guide provides you with actionable information to get started downloading multiple videos with a single command. You may download videos using a list of video URLS, videos from a channel or videos from playlists using the method.
Before you can start using youtube-dl, you need to download the tool to your device. Instructions in this guide focus on the Windows version, but youtube-dl is also available for other operating systems.
If you want to download multiple video files that are not related to each other, e.g. from a single playlist file or channel, you may use a text file with video URLs to download the videos using youtube-dl. Just create a new text file, name it downloads.txt, and add one YouTube video URL per line to it.
Downloading videos from a playlist works similarly. Just replace the channel URL from the example above with a playlist URL, and youtube-dl will download all the linked videos from the specified playlist.
Remember that a copyright-enforcement organization (the RIAA, I think) succeeded in getting Microsoft to pull youtube-dl from GitHub a few years back based on a claim that it was a copyright-infringement tool. There was an uproar from journalists, lawyers, academics, and others who rely heavily on fair use, and youtube-dl was reinstated on GitHub within a couple/few weeks. Bottom Line: Tools like youtube-dl have legitimate, legal uses, and those uses are very important to a free, open, democratic society.
I wonder, considering the amount of attention the project has received in the last year or so, if someone has *paid* the developer(s) of youtube-dl off to halt development and let it *rot on the vine*?
Pressing a keybind on my computer, dmenu shows up with the playlists and let me pick one to watch. After that, MPV starts the playback on shuffle mode. This is very convenient and much better than browsing YouTube.
This will create folders with the names provided by playlists.txt, anddownload each playlist to its own folder. You can run it periodically howeveryou feel most comfortable (crontab, systemd timers, etc.) and it should keepall the local copies up to date.
Most of this can be taken care of with various youtube-dl flags! I have afunction called dl_playlist() which implements all of this. Arguments passedto dl_playlist() are transparenltly passed on to any youtube-dl commands,which allows me to pass it a playlist URL, and optionally a proxy.
This writes the current metadata to a dated file, copies that to a temporaryfile, and then renames the temporary file to playlist.json. This allows us tohave a history of the playlist over time, which may make it easier to figureout what videos are missing when they get taken down. playlist.json willalways contain the latest playlist information, to make it easier for me towrite tools for this later.
The rest of the script is just housekeeping around this. It loads playlistsfrom a file, creates separate directories for each one, and randomly shufflesthrough a list of SOCKS proxies for eachplaylist. My VPN provider provides SOCKS proxies for each of their exit nodes,so this is a really convenient way for me to distribute my downloads across abroader range of IP addresses.
Looks at an RSS feed I have for one of the playlists I watch on YouTube. If the URL has YouTube in it, it uses that script on the files, and moves them to the trash now that I have the movie downloaded in my inbox.
There are also various graphical frontends to yt-dlp, such as parabolicAUR, tartubeAUR and yt-dlg-gitAUR. You can also install yt-dlp-drop-inAUR which provides a fake /usr/bin/youtube-dl executable (that just redirects to yt-dlp) for outdated programs that still look for a youtube-dl executable.
Since the youtube-dl binary is updated regularly, you can run npm run update to check for and download any updates for it. You can also require youtube-dl/lib/downloader in your app if you'd like to place youtube-dl binary in a specific directory and control when it gets updates.
Thanks for your post. I tried to do what you wrote. I went to youtube-dl.org and there were several choices of which program to download. I downloaded youtube-dl.exe. I then put it in a folder on my computer which I named youtube-dl. You then said to create a text file. You did not say what text program to use. I used Windows Notepad. I copied the text you provided into the text file and named it youtube-dl.ps1 and placed it in the folder named youtube-dl. You then wrote:
YT-DLP is a free and open-source software project created (as a fork) from the now-discontinued project, youtube-dlc. yt-dlp is based on the popular YouTube downloader, youtube-dlc, but now comes with additional features and improvements. This software is basically used to download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and other similar websites.
A: yt-dlp offers additional features and options not available in youtube-dl. It also has an active development community that ensures that bugs are quickly fixed and new features are added. Check our previous section: Pros & Cons.
If fact, youtube-dl is much more reliable than this script. If you are find with youtube-dl, just stick with it.But the point of this script is that you can easily download a YouTube video within a click, no need to open your terminal and enter youtube-dl command. But, you should use youtube-dl if you want to download more than 1080p or download a playlist.
Next, find out the URL of the YouTube playlist that you want to download. To do so, go to the YouTube playlist page that you want, and copy the URL. The URL format of a YouTube playlist is =XXXXXXXXXXX, as shown in the screenshot below.
Open Video Downloader or youtube-dl-gui, is a cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and Node.js.
With this app you can download videos and playlists in all kind of formats, from just about every major website.