How to store the output filename and extension as a variable after downloading the movie using youtube-dl and use it later in CMD batch? The following is an example of a command to download a video from YouTube to the current directory where URL
is the URL of the video.
youtube-dl URL
Store the output filename in a variable called my_variable
.
Edit:
To be completely specific I want to download a video with youtube-dl using a simple cmd batch file that will provide a CHOICE command at the end with option to open the output file with MPC-HC.
I need the method of putting into a variable the output of
youtube-dl --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" URL
so I can use it later for the following line
"C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.exe" "D:\Downloads\%my_variable%" /play
Best Answer
The following command downloads a YouTube video and names it with the same title that it has on YouTube, followed by the downloaded video's extension.
The following command downloads only the video's title and extension and displays the result in the next line after the command.
The following command in a Windows batch file downloads only the video's title and extension and stores the result in a variable called
my_variable
.In all three commands you may also use multiple URLs separated by space characters instead of a single URL. You may also use the
--batch-file FILE
option to replace the URL(s) with a list of URLs stored in a batch file (e.g.FILE
).