Command to download videos from a list containing the urls to the videos using youtube-dl. Have to have installed youtube-dl, you can use chocolatey for that.

DownloadFromListUsingYoutubeDl.md

tu### Download from a list of files url usin Youtube-dl

choco install -y youtube-dl
choco install -y aria2
choco install -y ffmpeg

youtube-dl -v -i -c --add-metadata --write-info-json --write-all-thumbnails --embed-thumbnail -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args "-x 16 -s 16" --download-archive _downloaded.txt -a {\\path\to\list.txt} --config-location PATH

with config file

youtube-dl --config-location youtube-dl.config

• Complex

youtube-dl -v -i -c --add-metadata --write-info-json -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -a {\\path\to\list.txt}

• Simple

youtube-dl -v -i -c --write-info-json -a "{\\path\to\list.txt}"

youtube-dl.config

-v # Print various debugging information

#Continue on download errors, for example to skip unavailable videos in a playlist
-i #--ignore-errors

#Force resume of partially downloaded files. 
#By default, youtube-dl will resume downloads if possible.
-c

--write-thumbnail  #Write thumbnail image to disk

--add-metadata 
--write-info-json 
--write-all-thumbnails #Write all thumbnail image formats to disk 
--embed-thumbnail
--write-description 

-f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best' 
--prefer-ffmpeg

#Output filename template, see the "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for all the info
-o "%(title)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s"  #--output TEMPLATE

--restrict-filenames #Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in filenames

--external-downloader aria2c #Use the specified external downloader.
                             #Currently supports aria2c,avconv,axel,curl,ffmpeg,httpie,wget

--external-downloader-args "-x 16 -s 16" #Give these arguments to the external downloader

          
#Download only videos not listed in the archive file. 
#Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in it.
--download-archive _downloaded.txt #--download-archive FILE


#File containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin), one URL per line.
#Lines starting with '#', ';' or ']' are as comments and ignored.
-a file-with-urls.txt #--batch-file FILE