Downloading all playlists of a user using youtube-dl khanacademy

youtube-playlist.txt

youtube-dl is a nifty utility that can parse and download all user videos. Recently added a feature on downloading all playlists.

Here is a command that downloads all playlists of user KhanAcademyUrdu and puts all videos of each playlist in separate folders.

youtube-dl -ciw -f '(webm)[height<480]' -o '/media/zubairlk/part1/khanurdu/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s_%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s' --yes-playlist  -R 10000 https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyUrdu/playlists

some explanation for later. see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl for full details.

-i is to ignore interrupts. timeouts/private videos etc block otherwise.

-f is because I want to download a specific webm format with 480p or less. Default is best quality I think.

-o is output file format. There is a default. But I wanted each subject in separate. Khan academy has put them in separate playlists so that makes it easy.

batchfile of video links is like this -a e.g
youtube-dl -a videos.txt -o '%(autonumber)s/%(playlist_index)s_%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s' -v --get-filename