Batch download in multiple folders, specify file names & log errors in log files

[sreenadhp]

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Question

I have a bunch of youtube urls, that are actually multiple playlist.

Is it possible to write a batch file (single txt)

• a set of URLs are downloaded in a specific folder
• another set in another folder and like that in various folders
• I want to modify the name of the file downloaded - append the uploaders name ((uploader))
• if any of the download has an error, save that to a log file

My last resort is to write a python script & read off a json file to do it, I just want to know if something like this possible in a single txt file and a simple youtube-dl -a list.txt?

I know that batch file is not supposed to carry configuration, but that was 2017. Hoping to know if there is update to that.

Also, just curious to know what other ways to solve this problem.

I want to send this to a friend who is not tech savy but wants to download a bunch of tutorials. I am hope to keep this as simple as possible.

[dstftw]

Split to multiple batch files and call with whatever command line needed, redirect stderr to file.