How to pass the url to batch file?

[GGGunrunner]

I'm using youtube-dl on Win and instead of typing "youtube-dl -f 22 https://youtube-etc-etc" every time
I'd rather put it in a batch file.

simply

@echo off
c:\bin\youtube-dl.exe -f 22 %1

but it truncates everything past the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v sting....

how do i properly pass the url? thanks!

[rautamiekka]

The Batch language and Window$ itself are really finicky. For best results you have to replace %1 with "%~1", which tells the system to always pass the string without any double-quoting, enabling our explicit double-quoting to make it work the way the language and system like it.

Also, with "%~1" you're accepting only the first drag-drop or call parameter. If you wanna accept any number of drag-drops or call parameters (while remembering the absolute character limit of the system), replace with %*, without double quotes.

If you need to be able to access every string you pass outside just being able to pass the strings to youtube-dl, you need a more elaborate system.