Is there a way to get the urls of individual videos in a playlist?

[WillPittenger]

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Question

Suppose I have a playlist P with 3 videos. Because of the possibility of the 2nd video being marked private, market deleted,or not being available in the requested format; I'm thinking of separate calls to youtube-dl for each video. But first, I need the individual urls. This needs to be as though I visited the playlist page and manually copied the individual URLs from there. This needs to work even for videos that can't be downloaded. I can detect errors later.

I ask because I have a PowerShell function that simplifies downloading playlists. I want it to skip invalid videos. If a video isn't available in a given format, I want my function to try other formats and then call ffmpeg to convert.

[dstftw]

--dump-json --flat-playlist.

[WillPittenger]

Thanks.

[abhiank]

@dstftw How do I save this json output to a file? I tried -
youtube-dl --dump-json --flat-playlist -o /User/username/Desktop/list.json PLFftu4DSZBSwrGiOlZXKHRSoKArsKSuz9

[abhiank]

Thanks, but I found a way to do that :
youtube-dl --dump-single-json --flat-playlist PLFftu4DSZBSwrGiOlZXKHRSoKArsKSuz9 > /Users/abhimanyu/Desktop/list.json