Youtube - downloading a playlist - youtube-dl

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I am trying to download all the videos from the playlist   I am using youtube-dl for this and the command is    youtube-dl -citk    format mp4    yes-playlist https   www youtube com watch v 7Vy8970q0Xc amp list PLwJ2VKmefmxpUJEGB1ff6yUZ5Zd7Gegn2   But this only downloads the first video  Not sure what I am doing wrong

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Your link is not a playlist  A proper playlist URL looks like this  https   www youtube com playlist list PLHSdFJ8BDqEyvUUzm6R0HxawSWniP2c9K  Your URL is just the first video OF a certain playlist  It contains https   www youtube com watch  instead of https   www youtube com playlist   Pick the playlist by clicking on the title of the playlist on the right side in the list of videos and use this URL

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Removing the v     amp  part from the url  and only keep the list     part  The main problem being the special character  amp   interpreted by the shell    You can also quote your  url  in your command   More information here  for instance     https   askubuntu com questions 564567 how-to-download-playlist-from-youtube-dl

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In a shell   amp  is a special character  advising the shell to start everything up to the  amp  as a process in the background  To avoid this behavior  you can put the URL in quotes  See the youtube-dl FAQ for more information   Also beware of -citk  With the exception of -i  these options make little sense  See the youtube-dl FAQ for more information  Even -f mp4 looks very strange   So what you want is   youtube-dl -i -f mp4 --yes-playlist  https   www youtube com watch v 7Vy8970q0Xc amp list PLwJ2VKmefmxpUJEGB1ff6yUZ5Zd7Gegn2    Alternatively  you can just use the playlist ID   youtube-dl -i PLwJ2VKmefmxpUJEGB1ff6yUZ5Zd7Gegn2

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Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in a playlist    youtube-dl -o    playlist s   playlist index s -   title s   ext s   https   www youtube com playlist list PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN BCvlSlap7re    Download all playlists of YouTube channel user keeping each playlist in separate directory     youtube-dl -o    uploader s   playlist s   playlist index s -   title s   ext s  https   www youtube com user TheLinuxFoundation playlists   Video Selection   youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube com and a few more sites  It requires the Python interpreter  version 2 6  2 7  or 3 2   and it is not platform specific  It should work on your Unix box  on Windows or on macOS  It is released to the public domain  which means you can modify it  redistribute it or use it however you like     youtube-dl  OPTIONS  URL  URL        --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

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I found the best solution after many attempts for this problem  youtube-dl --ignore-errors --format bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 160K --output  quot   title s   ext s quot  --yes-playlist https   www youtube com playlist list  your-youtube-playlist-id

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I have tried everything above  but none could solve my problem  I fixed it by updating the old version of youtube-dl to download playlist   To update it   sudo youtube-dl -U   or  youtube-dl -U   after you have successfully updated using the above command  youtube-dl -cit https   www youtube com playlist list PLttJ4RON7sleuL8wDpxbKHbSJ7BH4vvCk

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The easiest thing to do is to create a file txt file and pass the link url link so  https   www youtube com watch v 5Lj1BF0Kn8c amp list PL9YFoJnn53xyf9GNZrtiraspAIKc80s1i  make sure to include the -a parameter in terminal  youtube-dl -a file txt

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