In the third command I have used the common flv 360p video format: You can also add the -F option to see all valid formats like this: youtube-dl -F '' If the video format is available you will not get any error message when you use the -simulate option. If the video format is not available you will get an error message that says: requested format not available. So first simulate your download to see if the format you want is available: youtube-dl -ct -f 34 -simulate '' This is the basic command, however you also need to add the formats of the videos that you want to download or else you may find yourself downloading videos with formats that you didn't want. Youtube-dl -j -flat-playlist ' | jq -r '.id' | sed 's_^_' > batch-file.txtįrom the terminal run: youtube-dl -ct -simulate -batch-file='/path/to/batch-file.txt' If the multiple files are all on the same playlist, channel or user webpage in YouTube, you can generate a text file with a list that has all the links on that page by running the following command: sudo apt install jq

Save the batch file with a name that is easy to remember like batch-file.txt. The URLs should be arranged in a list having only one URL and nothing else on each line, with a new line for each URL in the list.

Videos not in the same playlist or channelįirst create a batch file which is a text file containing a list of URLs of videos from YouTube that you want to download. where is replaced by the URL of the channel and replace FORMAT with any available video format, for example 18. Channel youtube-dl -f FORMAT -ciw -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' -v where is replaced by the URL of the playlist, replace FORMAT with any available video format, for example 18, and NUMBER is the number of the video in the playlist to start/end downloading at. You can use the -F option to see all valid formats like this: youtube-dl -F ''ĭownload part of a playlist from start of batch to end of batch youtube-dl -f FORMAT -ci -playlist-start NUMBER -playlist-end NUMBER where is replaced by the URL of the playlist and replace FORMAT with any available video format, for example 18. Playlist youtube-dl -f FORMAT -ciw -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' -v If all of the videos are in the same playlist or the same channel, you can save time by using the following shortcuts.

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