Youtube - downloading a playlist - youtube-dl

Question

I am trying to download all the videos from the playlist:

I am using youtube-dl for this and the command is:

youtube-dl -citk –format mp4 –yes-playlist          


        

Answer 1

I have tried everything above, but none could solve my problem. I fixed it by updating the old version of youtube-dl to download playlist. To update it

sudo youtube-dl -U

or

youtube-dl -U

after you have successfully updated using the above command

youtube-dl -cit https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLttJ4RON7sleuL8wDpxbKHbSJ7BH4vvCk

Answer 2

The easiest thing to do is to create a file.txt file and pass the link url link so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lj1BF0Kn8c&list=PL9YFoJnn53xyf9GNZrtiraspAIKc80s1i

make sure to include the -a parameter in terminal:

youtube-dl -a file.txt

Answer 3

Removing the v=...& part from the url, and only keep the list=... part. The main problem being the special character &, interpreted by the shell.

You can also quote your 'url' in your command.

More information here (for instance) :

https://askubuntu.com/questions/564567/how-to-download-playlist-from-youtube-dl

Answer 4

Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in a playlist

$ youtube-dl -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s'  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re

Download all playlists of YouTube channel/user keeping each playlist in separate directory:

$ youtube-dl -o '%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists

Video Selection:

youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. It should work on your Unix box, on Windows or on macOS. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.

$ youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

--playlist-start NUMBER          Playlist video to start at (default is 1)

--playlist-end NUMBER            Playlist video to end at (default is last)

--playlist-items ITEM_SPEC       Playlist video items to download. Specify
                                 indices of the videos in the playlist
                                 separated by commas like: "--playlist-items
                                 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos
                                 indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can
                                 specify range: "--playlist-items
                                 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos
                                 at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.

Answer 5

Your link is not a playlist.

A proper playlist URL looks like this:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHSdFJ8BDqEyvUUzm6R0HxawSWniP2c9K

Your URL is just the first video OF a certain playlist. It contains https://www.youtube.com/watch? instead of https://www.youtube.com/playlist?.

Pick the playlist by clicking on the title of the playlist on the right side in the list of videos and use this URL.

Answer 6

In a shell, & is a special character, advising the shell to start everything up to the & as a process in the background. To avoid this behavior, you can put the URL in quotes. See the youtube-dl FAQ for more information.

Also beware of -citk. With the exception of -i, these options make little sense. See the youtube-dl FAQ for more information. Even -f mp4 looks very strange.

So what you want is:

youtube-dl -i -f mp4 --yes-playlist 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vy8970q0Xc&list=PLwJ2VKmefmxpUJEGB1ff6yUZ5Zd7Gegn2'

Alternatively, you can just use the playlist ID:

youtube-dl -i PLwJ2VKmefmxpUJEGB1ff6yUZ5Zd7Gegn2