Help me to use external downloader

[jaan143]

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$ youtube-dl -v <your command line>
PS C:\Users\vicky\downloads> youtube-dl -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.04.1
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[debug] Proxy map: {}
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
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PS C:\Users\vicky\downloads>

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

i need help to use external downloader
i generate downloading url from video streaming site and its save in link.txt using your command
like this
youtube-dl --verbose http://app.pluralsight.com/courses/nodejs-security-express-angular-get-started --get-url --username 12345@hotmail.com --password 12345 > links.txt

after that its save links in txt file but now i want to download these videos through external download so can you plz explain me what is exact command to use it and it will read this txt file and download all videos

this txt file saving in this directory
C:\Users\vicky\Downloads

thanks

[yan12125]

Check the manual of your favorite downloader and feed links.txt to it.

[jaan143]

can you plz recommend other than IDM ?
because IDM is not download with original title name

[yan12125]

If you need to keep titles in filenames, use --external-downloader instead. For example:

youtube-dl --external-downloader <the downloader name> <video URL>

Currently only aria2c,avconv,axel,curl,ffmpeg,httpie and wget are supported. Please follow #9861 if you need IDM.

[jaan143]

you mean like this ?
youtube-dl --verbose --external-downloader idm https://udemy-assets-on-demand2.udemy.com/2016-07-16_21-09-36-bb6f58d7a5e8ad2e11e4cdb1120cb143/WebHD_1080.mp4?nva=20160908173957&token=0ef939fa1f107a684af46

[yan12125]

Yeah, but idm is not supported yet. You may want to change idm to one of aria2c, avconv, axel, curl, ffmpeg, httpie or wget.

[jaan143]

but Sir for this way i need to download all videos one by one ? because i generated links in txt file then need put one by one with this command ?

[yan12125]

It should work for playlists, too. By the way, you may want to try axel or aria2c, both of which use multiple connections for downloading.

[jaan143]

i figure out its not problem of IDM because when i generate links its not generated with original title name its generated with some numbers and idm download with that numbers filename
see here
http://vid.pluralsight.com/expiretime=1473338970/af682fd0e7e066508914173cd326e767/clip-videos/matthew-renze/r-mastering-data-visualization-m0/r-mastering-data-visualization-m0-01/1280x720mp4/20160907153219.mp4
http://vid.pluralsight.com/expiretime=1473338976/b86730a2bfd8e0b264c3490d5d9907fd/clip-videos/matthew-renze/r-mastering-data-visualization-m1/r-mastering-data-visualization-m1-01/1280x720mp4/20160907153258.mp4

i generated these with youtube-dl so is it possible to generate with original titles ?
or if its generate with my specific numbers
for example
http://vid.pluralsight.com/expiretime=1473338970/af682fd0e7e066508914173cd326e767/clip-videos/matthew-renze/r-mastering-data-visualization-m0/r-mastering-data-visualization-m0-01/1280x720mp4/1.mp4
http://vid.pluralsight.com/expiretime=1473338976/b86730a2bfd8e0b264c3490d5d9907fd/clip-videos/matthew-renze/r-mastering-data-visualization-m1/r-mastering-data-visualization-m1-01/1280x720mp4/2.mp4
http://vid.pluralsight.com/expiretime=1473338980/04c96f0df403c90c5c70bd7a4047a105/clip-videos/matthew-renze/r-mastering-data-visualization-m1/r-mastering-data-visualization-m1-02/1280x720mp4/3.mp4

see end 1.mp4
2.mp4
3.mp4
but auto its generated with this filename
20160907153258.mp4
20160907153219.mp4

[yan12125]

Those URLs are fetched from Pluralsight not generated by youtube-dl. If you change it, videos won't be downloaded. If you want IDM to save URLs with a different name, check IDM manuals.

[jaan143]

i download aria2c and youtube-dl downloading with that
but its cant read all url txt file and download all videos automatically ?
is it possible or not if yes then plz help me about this command

thanks

[yan12125]

What's your command and the result?

[jaan143]

like this
youtube-dl --external-downloader aria2c http://vid.pluralsight.com/expiretime=1473347773/f846d9607da92f9f4c88b9817c7ba283/clip-videos/vlad-catrinescu/planning-sharepoint-server-2016-topology-services-m0/planning-sharepoint-server-2016-topology-services-m0-01/1280x720mp4/20160907153653.mp4

[yan12125]

Well, my previous statements are misleading. Use this instead:

youtube-dl --external-downloader aria2c http://app.pluralsight.com/courses/nodejs-security-express-angular-get-started

[jaan143]

it will not ask user and password ?

[yan12125]

If this video requires password, it will. The full command is like:

youtube-dl --verbose --external-downloader aria2c http://app.pluralsight.com/courses/nodejs-security-express-angular-get-started --username 12345@hotmail.com --password 12345

[jaan143]

actually bro if i use username then pluralsight banned account to download too fast so thats why i am generating links then i change ip and downloading all videos with that links through idm so when i generate links.txt is it possible with this way to read link.txt file and download all videos ?
because after generate links we can downnload as anonymous

[yan12125]

Currently your link.txt contains plain URLs only, so there are no titles in filenames. Check IDM manual if it provides another format that reads in titles and URLs at the same time.

[jaan143]

ohh ok :(

[yan12125]

Here are some discussions about how to prevent pulralsight accounts from banning: #6090 #6842. Of course there's no guarantee.

[jaan143]

bro with area2c can read txt file and download all videos ? no matter with original name or not

[yan12125]

https://aria2.github.io/manual/en/html/aria2c.html#cmdoption-i

[remitamine]

it's possible with some scripting to do what you want using aria2c(save files with proper name), the links file should be like this:

url1
 out=file1.mp4
url2
 out=file2.mp4

[jaan143]

yeah links are like this bro
http://vid.pluralsight.com/expiretime=1473347773/f846d9607da92f9f4c88b9817c7ba283/clip-videos/vlad-catrinescu/planning-sharepoint-server-2016-topology-services-m0/planning-sharepoint-server-2016-topology-services-m0-01/1280x720mp4/20160907153653.mp4

[jaan143]

#remitamine can you plz explain me little bit ?

[remitamine]

for example you have to change the links file to something like:

http://vid.pluralsight.com/expiretime=1473338970/af682fd0e7e066508914173cd326e767/clip-videos/matthew-renze/r-mastering-data-visualization-m0/r-mastering-data-visualization-m0-01/1280x720mp4/20160907153219.mp4
 out=Course Overview.mp4
http://vid.pluralsight.com/expiretime=1473338976/b86730a2bfd8e0b264c3490d5d9907fd/clip-videos/matthew-renze/r-mastering-data-visualization-m1/r-mastering-data-visualization-m1-01/1280x720mp4/20160907153258.mp4
 out=Course Introduction.mp4
...

[jaan143]

no its not downloading with that i tried yesterday because with numbers its original url and when we change numbers to title then url going to dead

[remitamine]

i didn't said that you have to change the url, i said:

original_url
 out=filename.mp4

replace original_url with the original url and filename.mp4 with filename related to the url.
put it in a file and download it using:aria2c -i links.txt.