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can youtube-dl ignore specific videos while downloading a playlist?

I would like to download an entire playlist from Youtube but I would also like it NOT to download specific videos from the playlist. I know the link and the name of those videos in advance and can therefore give that information to youtube-dl

So far the best solution I have is downloading the playlist and then running a shell script that removes the unwanted videos. This is obviously very limited ( the video is downloaded each time I try to download the new videos added to the playlist )

Is it possible to ask youtube-dl to ignore specific videos directly by command line or by file ( that would contain the names or urls of the unwanted videos ) ?

Solution

  • Yes.

    1. Put list of unwanted clips into file; unwanted.txt (one url per line)
    2. Get all urls from the playlist and save in a file
        youtube-dl -ij --flat-playlist "your_playlist" | jq -r '"https://youtu.be/\(.id)"' > listurl.txt
    1. Challenge thhose files to remove common occurrences
        grep -vf unwanted.txt listurl.txt > download.txt
    1. Download desirable vids witch a batch file
        youtube-dl -ia download.txt