How do I download to a specific Directory?

[zoutiyx]

Hi,
I have read the help and I have tried quite a bit but I cant get youtube-dl to download to a specific directory.

How do I change that? can't find the youtube-dl.conf file in the /etc or /.config

Based on what I read it can be added with -o that method would be appreciated too.
Here is what I have:

sudo youtube-dl -citk --max-quality FORMAT --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/user/DiscoverTheVibes/videos trying to download to /media/ubuntu/UUI/dtv

Thanks for the great program.

[phihag]

Umm, first of all, your existing options don't make much sense. --max-quality FORMAT is not a useful option and can be left out. The -t option is deprecated and actually harmful here because it already specifies a template. And -c should rarely be passed in (by default, youtube-dl will pick what's best, and that's usually continuing), why are you adamant about continuing? You should also never run youtube-dl with sudo unless you are updating - that is dangerous and may fail in the future.

After you have removed these options, you can simply specify an output template with the -o option, and that output template can contain directories as you wish. So, try something like

youtube-dl -ikx --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/user/DiscoverTheVibes/video \
-o '/media/ubuntu/UUI/dtv/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s'

If you want, you can create a file (either /etc/youtube-dl.conf, or, recommended, ~/.config/youtube-dl.conf) and write any of those options into that file.

[zoutiyx]

Thank you so much. See, this is why I came here to you.

This format: sudo youtube-dl -citk --max-quality FORMAT --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 I got from a site online. Guess it's misleading everyone or that was the standard at the time of posting.

[phihag]

Can you give me a link to that site? I can't find it. In any case, it is definitly not associated with the youtube-dl project.

[zoutiyx]

Certainly not associated with the youtube-dl project. Here it is: Xmodulo