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Hamid
Hamid

Reputation: 43

YoutubeDL starts Downloading the Whole playlist instead of just one Video

i was trying to download a video from Youtube using Youtubedl. i downloaded one of the videos of that playlist just easily but on the second one when i try to download from its URL,YoutubeDL starts downloading the whole playlist. i am a nooby guys so any help would be great :) url link is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtdFPppcup4&list=PL9ooVrP1hQOH3SvcgkC4Qv2cyCebvs0Ik&index=3&t=0s

might be the URL problem ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 11955

Answers (1)

anon
anon

Reputation:

If you look at your URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtdFPppcup4&list=PL9ooVrP1hQOH3SvcgkC4Qv2cyCebvs0Ik&index=3&t=0s , you'll see it refers both to a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtdFPppcup4 and a playlist ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9ooVrP1hQOH3SvcgkC4Qv2cyCebvs0Ik ).

youtube-dl interprets this as a playlist by default, but you can force one of the two behaviors. In youtube-dl's options, you'll find

--no-playlist Download only the video, if the URL refers a video and a playlist.
--yes-playlist Download the playlist, if the URL refers to video and a playlist.

So start youtube-dl as

youtube-dl --no-playlist "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtdFPppcup4&list=PL9ooVrP1hQOH3SvcgkC4Qv2cyCebvs0Ik&index=3&t=0s"

to get just the video. If you always want this behavior, consider setting up a configuration file.

Upvotes: 7

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