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Avoid downloading other file types #22974

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TaktakTaktouk opened this issue Nov 4, 2019 · 1 comment
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Avoid downloading other file types #22974

TaktakTaktouk opened this issue Nov 4, 2019 · 1 comment
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@TaktakTaktouk TaktakTaktouk commented Nov 4, 2019 •
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Giving youtube-dl this URL http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04.3/ubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso it was able to download it. It's not a video it an iso file of Ubuntu.
My question is how to tell youtube-dl to download only videos and reject any other file types?
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@dstftw dstftw commented Nov 4, 2019

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#format-selection filter by ext.
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