Batch file doesn't allow URL with quotes

[githubuser135]

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youtube-dl --batch-file doesn't allow URL with quotes

Example:

test.txt

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc"

youtube-dl --batch-file .\test.txt
WARNING: The url doesn't specify the protocol, trying with http
[generic] watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc": Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to http://"https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc": <urlopen error [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed>
[generic] watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc": Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed> (caused by URLError(gaierror(11001, 'getaddrinfo failed'),))

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[yan12125]

Quotes in batch files are interpreted as part of URLs. Just remove them.

[githubuser135]

I am using a .bat file to write URLs to a text file, and as far as I know, there is no way to escape special characters from ECHO without using quotes.

[yan12125]

Is ECHO https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc broken?

[githubuser135]

It's URLs with playlist that don't work. I am so sorry, I completely forgot that it worked the way you did it.
So my problem is with ampersand, to escape them you need quotes.

[yan12125]

Looks good: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1327476/3786245