Specifying output directory

[oschrenk]

Is it possible to specify an output directory?

I tried the -o option, but it specifies the whole output file template, whereas I only want to specify the output directory but otherwise leaving everything to default.

My usecase is that I want every video to be put into ~/Downloads regardless of my working directory. I tried specifying a template ~/Downloads/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s and $HOME/Downloads/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s but bash and environment variables don't get expanded.

[rg3]

Try something like:

-o "$HOME/Downloads/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"

or

-o ~/Downloads/"%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"

It's a matter of understanding shell quotation marks.

[oschrenk]

Doesn't work when used in youtube-dl.conf.

OS X 10.8.4