On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:34:42 +0100 (CET)
Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenk...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, riveravaldez wrote:
Maybe worth mentioning: youtube-dl, exceptionally useful and simple CLI tool.
useful and simple... but it works only for urls with alphanumeric characters
I tried with an url containing ? and &, and I got nothing
I tried also by escaping ? and & with \, and it was not better.
I'll send you an example later, if you are not convinced...
You can also try putting the url(s) in a file, and feeding the file to
youtube-dl via its -a option.
Celejar
hi Celejar,
thank you for your suggestion
After downloading the last version of youtube-dl, I found that escaping
or quoting actually works: keeping the part after & gives you all the files
displayed in the given URL page
and removing it gives only the requested file.
Here is a summary of the differents tests I made:
echo
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELPlMX0glwk&list=PLNNrNEw_ZhtIOOFq-TvyL96AMeuYFoHg_";
> t1
==> youtube-dl -a t1
download 99 files
youtube-dl
'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELPlMX0glwk&list=PLNNrNEw_ZhtIOOFq-TvyL96AMeuYFoHg_'
download 99 files
youtube-dl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELPlMX0glwk\&list=PLNNrNEw_ZhtIOOFq-TvyL96AMeuYFoHg_
download 99 files
youtube-dl --no-playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELPlMX0glwk\&list=PLNNrNEw_ZhtIOOFq-TvyL96AMeuYFoHg_
download 1 file
==> youtube-dl --no-playlist -a t1
download 1 file
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELPlMX0glwk
download 1 file
best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel
