Output playlist urls to a text file

[xubuntu4iran]

An option to output playlist urls to a text file

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$id
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$id
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[phihag]

I am not sure what this should be useful for. Without a description of the motivation for this request, I'm inclined to close it. You can already get the IDs of all videos that would be downloaded with --get-id. You can also use jq like this:

youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/user/phihag -j | jq '@text "\(.webpage_url)"'

[xubuntu4iran]

I think in --get-id or -j option, program also download webpages, while thay can be extracted from playlist webpage, I want those urls in a text file because I don't want to redownload playlist webpage or I want to access urls in a simple text file.

[phihag]

Well, I'd rather optimize --get-id to not download individual webpages. Again, what do you need the list of URLs for?

[screen12345]

The URL is useful when referring other people to the video, especially, when there are many videos with similar titles and content...

One way this could be done is to write the original URL to the top or bottom of the description file. This way, if I want to refer other people to the video in question, I could just look at the description file and send them the link.

(Also, please condider changing the default description-file extension to .txt, so that it can be opened directly without needing to create a new file association.)