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joke4me
joke4me

Reputation: 842

passing file path to youtube-dl in python

Im using python subprocess.call() to call [youtube-dl.exe][1] and passing parameters like so

downloadLocation = "-o " + "C:/Users/username/Documents/Youtube/%(title)s.%(ext)s"

subprocess.call(["youtube-dl",
                 "-f" "bestvideo[ext=mp4, height=1080]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4, height=1080]/best",
                 downloadLocation,
                 url])

But the result is(on python console): [download] Destination: C#\Users\username\Documents\Youtube\myVideoFile.mp4

And the files are getting downloaded in the current directory from where the python call is made.

Example: "C:\Users\username\PycharmProjects\pytest\ C#\Users\username\Documents\Youtube"

It looks like to me it's unable to escape the ":" character in the file path.

Please help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 908

Answers (1)

joke4me
joke4me

Reputation: 842

Update: Here's how i got it to work

subprocess.call(["youtube-dl",
                 "-f" "bestvideo[ext=mp4, height=1080]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4, height=1080]/best",
                 "-o" "%s" %downloadLocation,
                 "--ignore-errors",
                 url])

Upvotes: 1

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