Youtube-dl runs with python
I would like to download multiple YouTube playlists (using the archive feature), but I want those to be downloaded to different local directories.
I can get this to work for one playlist going to one directory:
youtube-dl --download-archive "F:\Videos\Online Videos\Comics
Explained\Marvel Major Storylines (Constantly Updated)\Marvel Major
Storylines Archive.txt"
"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9sO35KZL50yZh5dXW-7l93VZp7Ct4vYA"
-o "F:\Videos\Online Videos\Comics Explained\%(playlist_title)s\%(title)s.%(ext)s" -f
"bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best"
--ffmpeg-location "H:\Documents\FFMpeg\bin"
but I don't know if I can do this for multiple playlists going to a separate directory for each playlist.
Your invocation already does create multiple directories, one for each playlist, simply by using template sequences such as %(playlist_title)s in your -o parameter. The only thing that's missing is multiple playlists. Fortunately, you can just append the playlist URLs to your command line, like this:
youtube-dl \
--download-archive "F:\Videos\Online Videos\Comics Explained\Marvel Major Storylines (Constantly Updated)\Marvel Major Storylines Archive.txt"
-o "F:/Videos/Online Videos/Comics Explained/%(playlist_title)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" \
-f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best" \
--ffmpeg-location "H:\Documents\FFMpeg\bin" \
\
PL9sO35KZL50yZh5dXW-7l93VZp7Ct4vYA \
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=YOUR_PLAYLIST_HERE \
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=YOUR_SECOND_PLAYLIST_HERE \
...
(The backslashes at the end of lines are not needed if you write the whole command in one line)