Save A Play List file for Media Players if Downloading a Playlist

[sirinath]

Is it possible to save a some standard playlist formats for media downloaded from a play list also place the videos in a directory having the playlist name by default. Also a HTML file with the playlist. This can be helpful in downloading lecture series in which the title is just the topic with no lesson number info.

Also ability to ignore already existing downloads.

If given multiple URLs the ability only download items once if they are common.

[phihag]

I'll try to unpack the requests here, but I'll probably. In the future, please file multiple issues, one for each separate request. Make sure to explain what you are doing, and why the desired option would fix your problem.

Writing out a playlist for all downloaded videos, or an HTML file, seems like a great idea. In a pinch, however, you can simply use an output template like

-o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s-%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s'

Then, to play the desired playlist in vlc (or any other media player), simply run vlc PLAYLISTNAME/*.

By default, youtube-dl will skip already existing files, and this will work even if a video is named twice:

$ youtube-dl BaW_jenozKc BaW_jenozKc 
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭-BaW_jenozKc.mp4
[download] 100% of 1.90MiB in 00:02
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Extracting video information
[download] youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭-BaW_jenozKc.mp4 has already been downloaded

[sirinath]

Thanks. Will this work even if the file was downloaded to a different directory? Or names with a different -o name?

[phihag]

No, it will only work if the file has the same name. If you only want to download a video once though (but be careful: it will for example only be present in one of two playlists containing it), use the --download-archive option.

[sirinath]

The current naming default is this: %(playlist_index)s-%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s

[sirinath]

Will --download-archive option prevent already downloaded items not to download again?

I want to rename already existing downloads to the suggested format. How do I do this?

[sirinath]

I have downloaded both of the Scala tutorial lists into 1 directory. Large number of files exit for both with also some part files. How can I sort this?