Get playlist title / name only. without downloading files

[BlisteringSyko]

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Hello,

I'm trying to get just the name of a playlist in a bash script without downloading the files. I've gone through the manual multiple times and put forth my best google foo.

Currently I'm downloading an entire playlist into a folder with a random name, then zipping it up before offering it to my users. Id just like to get that zip file named after the playlist and not jibberish. Ive tried to awk and sed with various options with no luck.

youtube-dl 2019.11.28
Ubuntu 19.04

Thanks.

[dstftw]

-J, --dump-single-json           Simulate, quiet but print JSON information
                                 for each command-line argument. If the URL
                                 refers to a playlist, dump the whole
                                 playlist information in a single line.

[BlisteringSyko]

Thanks. Did the trick using jq to get the value of title.

#! /bin/bash
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
name=$(youtube-dl --no-warnings --dump-single-json $1 | jq -r '.title')
echo $name