YouTube – How to Pause and Resume Download in YouTube Video

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I have downloaded youtube videos using youtube-dl. But due to network problem or other problem sometimes I am not able to download video completely. Later, I need to download that video from beginning.

Is there any way to pause and resume download? I use both Chromium and Mozilla.

Best Answer

You can do that with -c option. For instance, if you previously started a download using:

youtube-dl <some_youtube_URL>

You may, if it was stopped or interrupted, resume that download later with:

youtube-dl -c <some_youtube_URL>

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For Ubuntu 20.04+ (Python 3 being the default Python) try:

pip3 install --upgrade youtube-dl

If you are using an older version of Ubuntu, or specifically want to use Python2, try:

pip install --upgrade youtube-dl

Note: this assumes you have pip or pip3 installed. Avoid using sudo pip3 (use virtualenv instead).

Using pip is a way to install youtube-dl, as reported on the official youtube-dl website, and the --upgrade option makes sure you end up with the latest available version installed.

To find out where youtube-dl has been installed, you can use the pip3 show youtube-dl command (see here and here).

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The best solution I found is:

youtube-dl -o "%(playlist_index)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" <playlist_link>

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