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Data8 Fall 2016 youtube playlist download | Lecture 5 - 40
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Data8 Fall 2016 youtube playlist download : Lecture 5 - 40:

youtube-dl --playlist-items 5-40 -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/playlist\?list\=PLFeJ2hV8Fyt7mjvwrDQ2QNYEYdtKSNA0y

When error occurs and you want to retry the download automatically, save following lines as youtube_download_retry.sh and run it using $./youtube_download_retry.sh. change the 100 times retry to desired range.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
function getvids() {
youtube-dl --playlist-items 19-40  -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/playlist\?list\=PLFeJ2hV8Fyt7mjvwrDQ2QNYEYdtKSNA0y
}
for i in {1..100}; do getvids && break || sleep 15; done
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