playlist-dl

Youtube playlist downloader. Based on the majestic youtube-dl

Features

• Resumable downloading
• Video resolution, video format, audio bitrate, audio format can be configured
• Video Output format (via conversion) can also be specified
• Other youtube-dl options are also supported

Installation

Python 3 only.
Get it from pip

pip install playlist-dl

or download the zip and execute the following

python setup.py install

Tutorial

• To start a new playlist download, create a new folder and open terminal (cmd) in it.
• Then run playlist-dl
• Give the playlist link and playlist-dl (actually youtube-dl) will start scanning the playlist.
• After that it will create a config.json file in that folder. Edit that if needed.
• Videos will start downloading one by one.
• You can close the terminal any time. Reopening the terminal in that folder and running playlist-dl will resume the downloads.

Config.json

• start - The item in playlist from where the download will be started.
• end - The item in playlist till where downloading will be done.
• output_format - The format to convert the downloaded video to. (eg > mkv,mp4,flv,webm)
• download.resolution - The height of the video to download. If set to 0, then bestvideo will be downloaded.
• download.video_format - The format of the video stream to download. Note that this is different from output_format (eg > flv,webm,mp4).
• download.bitrate - The bitrate of the audio to download. If set to 0, then bestaudio will be downloaded.
• download.audio_format - The format of the audio stream to download. (eg > webm,m4a)
• download.more_options - More download options. See youtube-dl README for the complete list.

NOTE - If the program finds no match with your download. audio/video settings, then it will automatically settle with the most preferable audio/video options. So if you leave video_format blank and just specify resolution, it will look in all formats for that resolution. Therefore it is recommended to specify output_format for consistency.

Example of a config.json

{
    "start": 37,
    "output_format": "mkv",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m44ul3fzH4&list=PLfP-5ohlBRxXUWCJRrR0i4Eft02OB_XkE&index=1",
    "download": {
        "video_format": "webm",
        "more_options": "-o \"%(title)s.%(ext)s\" --external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args \"-x 16 -s 16 -k 5M\"",
        "audio_format": "webm",
        "bitrate": 128,
        "resolution": 480
    },
    "end": 49
}