A Youtube video can be watched standalone or it could be a part of a playlist.
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbsNiOkm0BU and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbsNiOkm0BU&index=141&list=UUmM7KPLEthAXiPVAgBF6rhA
Notice the part vbsNiOkm0BU
.
The question is to get this part for all the videos of the channel/playlist.
The motive is to download all the videos of this channel (approximately 3600). But I haven't got success with youtube-dl
downloading all at once.
So I wish to download it in bunch of 100s, as an example.
If I could take this question further, can I write a bash script to download only particular indexes of a playlist?
If you see the above link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbsNiOkm0BU&index=141&list=UUmM7KPLEthAXiPVAgBF6rhA
Notice the part &index=141
.
Now if do something like this:
for i in {100..200}
do
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbsNiOkm0BU&index=${i}&list=UUmM7KPLEthAXiPVAgBF6rhA
done
Notice the part &index=${i}
.
This is downloading the same video again and again, due to vbsNiOkm0BU
.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Best Answer
Playlist
...where
<url-of-playlist>
is replaced by the URL of the playlist, replaceFORMAT
with any available video format, for example18
,NUMBER-START
is the number of the video in the playlist to start downloading first, andNUMBER-END
is the number of the video in the playlist to download last.Channel
If a channel has more than one playlist, click on the first playlist and download all the videos in the selected playlist using the above command. Then repeat for each playlist in the channel.
Explanation
Convert all the video titles to lowercase
Explanation