How can I export the downloaded file name to a txt file?

[yasuo9x]

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[ochen1]

You can use the flags --simulate and --get-title for this.

youtube-dl --simulate --get-title "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUTUBE"

In Linux shells, you can redirect the stdout to a file by adding a > output.txt to the end.

youtube-dl --simulate --get-title "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUTUBE" > output.txt

If this solved your problem, be sure to close the issue, so it doesn't waste the developers' time.

[joeschmoe40]

Title is not the same as "downloaded filename".

So, trying to do it based on the title is not going to work.

What I do is to run the youtube-dl run with "script" - that gets you all the terminal chatter into a file.

Then you grep that file for the word "Destination" and do the appropriate parsing on that line.

[ochen1]

Ahh, I see. I read "How can I export [download] the file name to a txt file" instead. Sorry!

[joeschmoe40]

Who knows? You could be right. Obviously, neither of us actually knows what OP wants.

I took it as:

I've just done something like:

youtube-dl "ytsearch: some string to search for"

and I got a file downloaded. I want to know the name of that file.

The point is that the actual filename (assuming no -o option given) is based on the title, but has a bunch of other stuff in it - including the extension (e.g., .mp4). So, just knowing the title isn't enough to know the full filename.

I think you've got to either parse the output of the youtube-dl run (as I indicated above) or you have to query the filesystem for files created "recently" (like in the last few minutes). This later method is, of course, a heuristic (read: some guess work involved).

Note also that I'm guessing that the real point in wanting to know the filename is to then feed that filename into a player (e.g., VLC).

Of course, what this all shows is that the easiest way to do it is to use the "-o" option to hard-code the filename. But of course, that might not be what OP wants at all.

[yasuo9x]

thanks you every one

[pukkandan]

If you want to download AND log the file name, use youtube-dl URL --exec "echo.{}>filenames.txt".

If you want to get the filename without downloading the video, use youtube-dl URL --get-filename >filenames.txt

[remitamine]

i think you got enough answers here(how to get title, filename, final filename).