The "--no-playlist" flag is ignored

[epiraces]

I see this issue when using as:
youtube-dl --no-playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=1234567890abcdefghhijklmnop

After running the above, I still see all videos are downloaded. I am using 2016.03.01.

[kidol]

That's not how it works. Option description:

--no-playlist
Download only the video, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist.

If you want to download only 1 video, whether playlist or not, you can use --playlist-end 1.

I don't think there is an option to fully ignore playlist url's. Do you need this?

[epiraces]

I see, my bad. Thanks for pointing that out. I think it could be an useful feature, specially for those of us integrating youtube-dl into larger applications. I'd be happy to take a stab if some direction was given. Feel free to close or re-tag. And again, thanks for clarifying this.

[epiraces]

Actually, I think this may be redundant as you are right that --playlist-end 1 will do it. Please ignore the above comment. Thanks again!