Set Download destination Directory?

[leegold-zz]

Could anyone give me a simple example of how to set the download destination directory? I think the -o is used but I can not see how to do it. It would be for windows system, please keep the example simple. Thank you sincerely.

[phihag]

If you want to download to the destination C:/Users/leegold/Downloads/ (and keep the original video name format), try

youtube-dl -o 'C:/Users/leegold/Downloads/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s'

[rudolphos]

This doesn't work for me..

It somehow downloads everything with messed up file names.
They look like this:

(title)s ((ext)s
(title)s ((ext)s.f136.part
(title)s ((ext)s.en.vtt

This is my script, saved as .bat.

set /p input="Input URL: "
youtube-dl -ci --write-thumbnail --sub-format ass/srt/best --write-auto-sub -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best --output "C:\Users\COMPUTER\Desktop\ytdl\%(uploader)s - %(title)s (%(id)s).%(ext)s" %input%

[Starsam80]

@rudolphos https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#output-template-and-windows-batch-files

[rudolphos]

Everything working now, percentage signs were the problem.

[CodeKraft]

What about linux?

I have been searching for an example that simply allows you to select a folder to dump all downloads to, however there is this thing with weird strings.

All I want to do is to save to /home/computer/videos/downloaded and I am not interested in any names or things other than what the downloaded name is. I like it simple.

So do I add -o /home/computer/videos/downloaded
to the command line to have all the files downloaded in the batch file in to that location?

[dstftw]

-o is not a directory it's an output template.