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Josue Espinosa
Josue Espinosa

Reputation: 5089

youtube-dl download location

I am trying to save youtube videos as MP3's in my downloads folder. However, this ends up saving files in the same directory as youtube-dl.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality=320k 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID 
--output C:/Users/Josue/Downloads/%(title)s.%(ext)s

I wanted the videos to save at:

C:/Users/Josue/Downloads/videotitle.mp3

however, they are saving as:

C:/youtube-dl/videotitle-videoID.mp3

Am I doing something incorrectly? I tried reading the documentation on Github, but I was still a bit confused.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 28309

Answers (5)

Garric
Garric

Reputation: 734

Windows - double %

%%(title)s.%%(ext)s

Upvotes: 1

Krish
Krish

Reputation: 917

This worked for me (for a unix environment):

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<video_id> --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o '/var/www/html/audio/%(id)s.%(ext)s'

Upvotes: 1

J. Doe
J. Doe

Reputation: 23

you can create a configuration file to do this for you , just add those lines to your config file (if you have one, if not create it in C:/Users/Josue youtube-dl.conf) -o C:/Users/Josue/Downloads/%(title)s.%(ext)s . Link for details

Upvotes: 0

Josue Espinosa
Josue Espinosa

Reputation: 5089

I needed to put the options in the following order:

youtube-dl --output C:/Users/Josue/Downloads/%(title)s.%(ext)s
 --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 
 --audio-quality=320k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID

Upvotes: 10

Steve Barnes
Steve Barnes

Reputation: 28405

Try:

cd C:\Users\Josue\Downloads
C:\youtube-dl\youtube-dl --etc

Upvotes: 1

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