Reverse download order

[vertevero]

I'm trying to download an entire channel and would like to be able to run but have it download in reverse order

youtube-dl -A -t -c https://www.youtube.com/user/smosh

Could you add a flag to download in reverse order so that the oldest video is 00001 instead of the newest?

[vertevero]

Um... Well, I decided to see if I could hack this feature into the code and was surprisingly successful. (This was my first bit of Python code that was more than just a batch script.)

So I just submitted a pull request.

[phihag]

We're currently in the process of generalizing playlist handling across all IEs. I added a comment in your pull request.

[FiloSottile]

I received that feature request by email, here are the anoymized request and my reply:

Hello


Some films on youtobe is divided by parts and now I get it from last
to first, and i can't watch this film when its downloaded ;(.

i change
class YoutubePlaylistIE(InfoExtractor):
class YoutubeUserIE(InfoExtractor):

 To some thing like this and i get films divided by correct order :)

               video_ids.reverse()
               for id in video_ids:
                       self._downloader.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % id])
               return

Propably it's good idea to add some option for this.

best regards
Artur

Hello,
thank you for using youtube-dl.

There is quite some request for that feature, so I will add it soon.
However for an option like this to be general some code rafactoring is
needed (the IE have to return the videos list so that the downloader
can reverse the order). Otherwise, the reversing code would need to be
copied in all User/Search/Playlist IE, and that is quite suboptimal.

Follow
http://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/249
for updates. I will cross-post there this email soon.

Regards

[weedy]

Why is this still not done?
Also dupe in #561

[tYGjQCsvVI]

Poppin' in. I'd really like to start watching the first video while the next one is downloading, unfortunately, I can not.

[ryanmjacobs]

Hey guys, this was implemented in ff815fe.

Just use:

$ youtube-dl --playlist-reverse https://www.youtube.com/user/smosh

[thomasbuckler]

is there a way to download an entire channel with the oldest videos downloading first? --datebefore xxxxxxxx is too slow for this. theres 100s of thousands of recent videos that i dont want. only early videos.

[shillshocked]

Just use the default all videos playlist for the channel and this flag, it should work as you want it.