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A shell script for automatic downloading your YouTube playlist.
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#!/bin/bash | |
# Use $ which youtube-dl to get the path. | |
youtube_dl_path=/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl | |
# https://askubuntu.com/a/157787 | |
if ps aux | grep -v grep | grep $youtube_dl_path > /dev/null | |
then | |
echo "youtube-dl is running" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
# Change these settings accordingly. | |
base_folder_video=/home/tonni/Videos/ | |
base_folder_archive=/home/tonni/youtube-dl/ | |
download_playlist () { | |
# https://stackoverflow.com/a/1401495/4480674 | |
current_date=`date +%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M` | |
$youtube_dl_path \ | |
$1 \ | |
--output "${base_folder_video}${2}/${current_date}__%(uploader)s__%(title)s.%(ext)s" \ | |
--download-archive ${base_folder_archive}download_arachive_${2} \ | |
--ignore-errors \ | |
--write-sub \ | |
--format best \ | |
--proxy socks5://127.0.0.1:1080 | |
} | |
# Change | |
download_playlist "Your_unlisted_playlist_url_1" "playlist_name_1" | |
download_playlist "Your_unlisted_playlist_url_2" "playlist_name_2" |
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