(Windows) Batch script discrepancy

[YuyQuan]

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Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -v <your command line>
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.04.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...
<end of log>

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• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
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(Windows) Batch script integration with variables and output filenames.

My script:

@echo on
set /p id="Enter ID: "
CALL "youtube-dl.exe" -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-thumbnail -o "Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\%(title)s.%(ext)" %id%
PAUSE

Outputs:

Q:\_Editing\yt-downloader>set /p id="Enter ID: "
Enter ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc

Q:\_Editing\yt-downloader>CALL "youtube-dl.exe" -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-thumbnail -o "Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\(ext)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
Usage: youtube-dl.exe [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl.exe: error: Cannot download a video and extract audio into the same file! Use "Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\(ext).%(ext)s" instead of "Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\(ext)" as the output template

Q:\_Editing\yt-downloader>PAUSE
Press any key to continue . . .

However, this script will work:

@echo on
set /p id="Enter ID: "
CALL "youtube-dl.exe" -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-thumbnail -o "Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\temp.mp3" %id%
PAUSE

Output:

Q:\_Editing\yt-downloader>set /p id="Enter ID: "
Enter ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc

Q:\_Editing\yt-downloader>CALL "youtube-dl.exe" -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-thumbnail -o "Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\temp.mp3" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Extracting video information
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading MPD manifest
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading thumbnail ...
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Writing thumbnail to: Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\temp.jpg
[download] Destination: Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\temp.mp3
[download] 100% of 308.59KiB in 00:00
[ffmpeg] Correcting container in "Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\temp.mp3"
[ffmpeg] Post-process file Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\temp.mp3 exists, skipping
ERROR: AtomicParsley was not found. Please install.

Q:\_Editing\yt-downloader>PAUSE
Press any key to continue . . .

*note mp3 works, just the jpg thumbnail is a work in progress on my part. Ignore the AtomicParsley ERROR

I've concluded that the way batch uses variables (using percent symbols) conflicts with how the filename output system works in yt-downloader.

[jaimeMF]

You have to escape them, see #7950 (comment).

[YuyQuan]

Thanks that did it!

One last note I wanted to add to anyone doing something similar:

I had to remove CALL from my script and just added the full directory to the application. For whatever reason, when adding the proper file output operations, the script would still give me errors.
So this was the updated script:

@echo on
set /p id="Enter ID: "
CALL "youtube-dl.exe" -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-thumbnail -o "Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\%%(title)s.%%(ext)s" %id%
PAUSE

produced

Q:\_Editing\yt-downloader>set /p id="Enter ID: "
Enter ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc

Q:\_Editing\yt-downloader>CALL "youtube-dl.exe" -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-thumbnail -o "Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\%(title)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
Usage: youtube-dl.exe [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl.exe: error: Cannot download a video and extract audio into the same file! Use "Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\(ext)s.%(ext)s" instead of "Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\(ext)s" as the output template

Q:\_Editing\yt-downloader>PAUSE
Press any key to continue . . .

As you can see, it clearly recognizes the "Q:_Editing\Audio Source Folder%(title)s.%(ext)s"
Pointing right to yt-download and removing CALL works:

@echo on
set /p id="Enter ID: "
"Q:\_Editing\yt-downloader\youtube-dl.exe" -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-thumbnail -o "Q:\_Editing\Audio Source Folder\%%(title)s.%%(ext)s" %id%
PAUSE

obviously toggle echo

[Reino17]

That's because CALL is only used for other batch-files and subroutines.