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Do not append video id youtube-dl

Is there any way to prevent the name of the downloaded file having part of the video ID attacted? An example of what I mean: If you run:

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

You will get a file called "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Video)-dQw4w9WgXcQ.mp4" I would like to not have that garble of text attacthed to the end of my videos. Is there an option or flag I am missing to disable this feature?

Solution

  • From man youtube-dl:

    -o, --output TEMPLATE

    Output filename template, see the "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for all the info

    [...]

    The current default template is %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s.

    Just drop the id.

    youtube-dl -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' ...