How to use youtube-dl script to download starting from some index in a playlist?
Question:
How to download playlist using youtube-dl from start certain number to an upper limit?
I tried to use in the code:
youtube-dl -o '~/Documents/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' URL
and it stopped in the middle. I want to restart the process from the index ith numbered video, and not have it start over from the beginning.
Answers:
youtube-dl --help, contains:
Video Selection:
--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.
Thus, the option --playlist-start NUMBER should help you to start the playlist in the middle, specified by NUMBER.
I have total 135 videos in my playlist. I have successfully downloaded 38 of them. So I manually used this command.
youtube-dl --playlist-start 39 -u [email protected] -p mypassword https://www.udemy.com/learn-ethical-hacking-from-scratch/learn/v4/content
Its downloading my remaining 97 videos.
This helped:
youtube-dl -f best <playlist link> --playlist-start 15
-f best selects the best video formats. use youtube-dl –help for more options
How to download playlist using youtube-dl from start certain number to an upper limit?
I tried to use in the code:
youtube-dl -o '~/Documents/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' URL
and it stopped in the middle. I want to restart the process from the index ith numbered video, and not have it start over from the beginning.
youtube-dl --help, contains:
Video Selection: --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.
Thus, the option --playlist-start NUMBER should help you to start the playlist in the middle, specified by NUMBER.
I have total 135 videos in my playlist. I have successfully downloaded 38 of them. So I manually used this command.
youtube-dl --playlist-start 39 -u [email protected] -p mypassword https://www.udemy.com/learn-ethical-hacking-from-scratch/learn/v4/content
Its downloading my remaining 97 videos.
This helped:
youtube-dl -f best <playlist link> --playlist-start 15
-f best selects the best video formats. use youtube-dl –help for more options