Is there a way to tell youtube-dl to download only 10 clips in one go from a playlist ?

[shirishag75]

Hi all,
I am using youtube-dl version 2014.10.30-1

$ youtube-dl --version
2014.10.30

Now I figured that it's able to download videos listed in a playlist and it even started doing it :-

~$ youtube-dl -f 18 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5671Y5M9FStlCRg9hPujnRb5fsNmycez
[youtube:playlist] PL5671Y5M9FStlCRg9hPujnRb5fsNmycez: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Bharat Ek Khoj (All Episodes)
[youtube:playlist] playlist Bharat Ek Khoj (All Episodes): Collected 53 video ids (downloading 53 of them)
[download] Downloading video #1 of 53
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 0FK-BlTdqAs: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 0FK-BlTdqAs: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 0FK-BlTdqAs: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Bharat Ek Khoj - Episode 01 - Bharat Mata Ki Jai-0FK-BlTdqAs.mp4
[download]   0.4% of 120.01MiB at 38.38KiB/s ETA 53:09Terminated

Now my question is how to tell youtube-dl that only download 10 videos (one after another) in one go as I don't have the disk-space to download all 53 files in one go.

If there is a way to tell youtube-dl that only download 1-10 and then 10-20 so it will start from then and end at the 10th or from 11th to 20th and so on and so forth.

Looking forward to know.

[dstftw]

Use --playlist-start and --playlist-end options for first and last videos correspondingly to be downloaded.

[phihag]

Alternatively, you can also use --max-downloads 10, probably in conjunction with --download-archive to store a list of videos you already have downloaded before, but deleted since then.