When using ytuser:ChannelName, the "playlist_title" doesn't work

[mattkomarnicki]

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I'm trying to download all videos from a YouTube channel and put them in a directory that matches playlist name.

youtube-dl ytuser:ChannelFooBarBaz -f best -o '%(playlist_title)s/%(playlist_index)s_%(upload_date)s_%(title)s'

The problem with the above syntax is that all videos are being pulled to the same directory called Uploads from ChannelFooBarBaz instead of playlist name's a particular video is assigned to.

For example if channel has Playlist Foo and Playlist Bar it should create 2 directories and pull corresponding video there. Now everything lands in Uploads from ChannelFooBarBaz.

The issue is probably around %(playlist_title)s but according to the docs:

playlist_title (string): Playlist title

it should be pretty straightforward.

Problem is solved only when I replace ytuser:ChannelFooBarBaz with explicit URL to a single playlist. Then directory name is correct, but if a channel has 50 playlists, I don't want to manually do this 50 times.

What am I doing wrong?

[dstftw]

You must use playlists URL not ytuser: https://www.youtube.com/user/.../playlists.