How Place archive.txt relative to playlist download folder?

[MichaelHabib]

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First of all, I can't thank you enough for this software. Keep up the good work.
The problem I have is creating a separate archive.txt file for each playlist i download from youtube. I need to download each playlist to a folder & maintain archive.txt inside it. I CAN download fine, but can't find how to keep the archive.txt file relative to the download folder.
Currently, just using -download-archive archive.txt creates a file relative to the location of my .sh script & not to the download folder.
My code is :

outputdir="/media/michael/multimedia/_youtube-downloads"
url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?xxxxxxxxx"
outputtemplate="$outputdir/%(playlist_title)s/%(title)s__%(uploader)s.%(ext)s"
downloadedlist="$outputdir/%(playlist_title)s/.downloaded.txt"
audioformat="mp3"

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format $audioformat --restrict-filenames  --download-archive $downloadedlist -o $outputtemplate $url

The error I get with the above code is :
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/media/michael/multimedia/_youtube-downloads/%(playlist_title)s/.downloaded.txt'

Note how the variable/argument %(playlist_title)s/ is printed out as is.

[dstftw]

--download-archive is not supposed to be used with output template. You must specify a path without any placeholders.

[MichaelHabib]

Thanks, any advice on how to return the playlist_title with youtube-dl ? any script or argument that allows me to get the playlist name from a url ?

[dstftw]

That's conceptually impossible in general. URL may contain videos from different playlists or video that does not belong to any playlist at all.

[MichaelHabib]

Sorry, what I should have asked was : how can I return data from a url in json or any other format, then I can use this data to generate my file paths ..

[dstftw]

-j, --dump-json                  Simulate, quiet but print JSON information.
                                 See the "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a description
                                 of available keys.
-J, --dump-single-json           Simulate, quiet but print JSON information
                                 for each command-line argument. If the URL
                                 refers to a playlist, dump the whole
                                 playlist information in a single line.