Is there a faster way to get a youtube playlist_title

[sebma]

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Hi,

Is there a faster way to get a youtube playlist_title ?

So far, I've tried this :

$ time \youtube-dl --ignore-config --ignore-errors --playlist-items 1 -j https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE6CB0A77537DA314 | jq -r '.playlist_title'
raiders of the lost books

real	0m7.754s
user	0m5.984s
sys	0m0.112s

[dstftw]

--flat-playlist

[sebma]

@dstftw Thanks a lot !
I also had tried --flat-playlist with the -j, --dump-json option but it only fetch the item titles instead of the playlist title :

$ time \youtube-dl --flat-playlist --ignore-config --ignore-errors -j https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE6CB0A77537DA314 | jq -r .title
Raiders of the Lost Book - Ep 1 - By Michael Rood
Raiders of the Lost Book - Ep 2 - By Michael Rood
Raiders of the Lost Book - Ep 3 - By Michael Rood
Raiders of the Lost Book - Ep 4 - By Michael Rood
Raiders of the Lost Book - Ep 5 - By Michael Rood
Raiders of the Lost Book - Ep 6 - By Michael Rood
Raiders of the Lost Book - Ep 7 - By Michael Rood
Raiders of the Lost Book - Ep 8 - By Michael Rood
Raiders of the Lost Book - Ep 9 - By Michael Rood
Raiders of the Lost Book - Ep 10 - By Michael Rood

real	0m4.811s
user	0m4.340s
sys	0m0.184s

Now, the below command (with the -J, --dump-single-json option) gives me what I exactly wanted :

$ time \youtube-dl --flat-playlist --ignore-config --ignore-errors -J https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE6CB0A77537DA314 | jq -r .title
raiders of the lost books

real	0m5.573s
user	0m5.104s
sys	0m0.156s

G-d bless you abundantly.