If you are familiar to Linux, see the following script...
I have a text file with a (list.txt) of Youtube URLs separated by new line... and I use
cat list.txt | youtube-dl -f best to download all in the list
This works fine but I want to emulate it on a Windows Batch file..
set /p data=<list.txt
youtube-dl -f best %data%This works too.. BUT it downloads only the first video on the list.
A Simple solution w.r.t coding would be preferred.
PS:Also it is certain that I'm not looking for solutions using youtube-dl commands
35 Answers
Rather than piping it in, you could use functionality provided by youtube-dl - it has a parameter that allows you to point at a text file containing a list of URLs - one per line.
-a,--batch-file FILEFile containing URLs to download (
-for stdin), one URL per line. Lines starting with#,;or]are considered as comments and ignored.
In your situation you'd use:
youtube-dl -f best -a list.txtYoutube-dl allow downloading multiple URL at once, so here is a simple solution:
youtube-dl $(cat my-links.txt | xargs)You can just use youtube-dl -a yourList.txt where yourList is a file containing URL's delimited by linebreaks.
if you're looking for a strictly batch file solution with youtube-dl i suggest you use this
for /f "tokens=*" %i in (videolinks.txt) do (youtube-dl -f best %i)it goes through the whole file line by line and downloads whatever is on the line (if its a valid link)
if you want to use it in a *.bat file make sure to use double % link
Use a single percent sign (%) to carry out the for command at the command prompt. Use double percent signs (%%) to carry out the for command within a batch file.
First you need a file with URLs or explicit YouTube-IDs. Then you can make a script as follows:
FILE=YT-List.txt #the file with the urls or youtube-ids: 1 item per line
while read line
do F1=$(echo $line) youtube-dl -f22 -c -R infinite "$F1" &
done < $FILE
sleep 7
echo "I AM READY"
