Playlist script, are there room for improvement?

[davidhedlund]

#!/bin/sh

echo "Afgin - Old is Gold
Space Tribe vs Psywalker - Gathering Of The Tribes" > a.txt

for x in $(find . -name "*.txt"); do

downloaded="no";

while read line; do

  youtube-dl "ytsearch10:$line" -o "$(echo $x | sed -e s,.txt,,)/%(playlist)s - %(id)s.%(ext)s" -f 172/171/43/webm/ogg --extract-audio --no-overwrites --match-title ^"$line"$ --verbose --ignore-errors --max-downloads 10

done < $x


done


#############################################################################################
# Explanation of the script

# ytsearch: just returns the top video result. Use ytsearch10:, ytsearch42: (or any other number), or ytsearchall:, although the latter can result in an excessive number of results.
# --max-downloads: Numbers of ID youtube-dl will try to download before it gives up for each hit (default is 1)

[phihag]

You don't need downloaded at all. Also, I'm a little bit confused about --max-downloads 10 - do you want to download 10 videos?

[davidhedlund]

On 2014-01-23 13:47, Philipp Hagemeister wrote:

You don't need |downloaded| at all. Also, I'm a little bit confused
about |--max-downloads 10| - do you want to download 10 videos?

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#2208 (comment).

I think it would be easiest if we focused on
#2211 specifically