Use youtube-dl to download new videos from channel

bash youtube youtube-dl
user2705775 picture user2705775 · Jan 25, 2014 · Viewed 6.9k times · Source

I need to use youtube-dl to download new videos from a channel, but remember not to download them next time and only download videos that have not been downloaded yet. How can I do so?

Answer

anon picture anon · Jan 25, 2014

Use the --download-archive option:

youtube-dl --download-archive ~/.mydownloads http://youtube.com/CHANNEL

The IDs of all downloaded videos will be recorded in the .mydownloads file, and these videos will not be downloaded again.

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