Get the video count of a playlist

[blueray453]

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I just want to know the number of videos in a playlist.

For Ex. when I start downloading a playlist, it shows
Course Name: Collected 61 video ids

I only want this line for my playlist. How can I do that?

[dstftw]

--dump-single-json and count the number of entries.

[blueray453]

How to count the number of entries?

[blueray453]

There is two possible solutions for future reference

1. add --get-title or --get-id and pipe that into wc -l
2. youtube-dl --dump-single-json WHATEVER | python -c 'import sys,json; print len(json.load(sys.stdin)["entries"])'