Youtube - downloading a playlist - youtube-dl

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Dreams picture Dreams · Jan 24, 2018 · Viewed 175.7k times · Source

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vy8970q0Xc&list=PLwJ2VKmefmxpUJEGB1ff6yUZ5Zd7Gegn2

But this only downloads the first video. Not sure what I am doing wrong.

Answer

anon picture anon · Jan 24, 2018

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

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