I am new to youtube_dl and I want to download a youtube playlist in mp3 and after researching a lot, I was able to code this:
import youtube_dl
from time import sleep
# the playlist url
yt_url = input('Enter playlist URL: ')
print('Fetching playlist...')
# Gets the playlist and stores the video info in a list
ydl = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL({'outtmpl': '%(id)s%(ext)s'})
with ydl:
result = ydl.extract_info(yt_url, download=False)
if 'entries' in result:
video = result['entries']
playlist = []
for i, item in enumerate(video):
video = result['entries'][i]
playlist.append(video)
# Looping the list to download all the videos one by
# one, named as 1.mp3, 2.mp3, 3.mp3 and so on
a = 0
for video in playlist:
a = a + 1
ydl_opts = {'outtmpl': f'{a}.mp3'}
print(f"\nDownloading {video['title']} (https://youtube.com/watch?v={video['id']}) as {a}.mp3...")
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
ydl.download(f"https://youtube.com/watch?v={video['id']}")
sleep(0.5)
print('Done.')
print('\n\nTask Finished.')
but I keep getting this error:
Downloading otherside (https://youtube.com/watch?v=kK81m-A3qpU) as 1.mp3...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/storage/emulated/0/! workspace/goffy/files/bots/music/a/download.py", line 27, in <module>
ydl.download(f"https://youtube.com/watch?v={video['id']}")
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2063, in download
raise SameFileError(outtmpl)
youtube_dl.utils.SameFileError: 1.mp3
I don't even have any file named 1.mp3, I only have a file named download.py which contains that code.
Thanks.
Try putting the download URL in a list because that's what the download function expects:
ydl.download([f"https://youtube.com/watch?v={video['id']}"])
Then this check that raises the SameFileError exception should pass because len(url_list) will be 1.
At the moment len(url_list) is the number of characters in the URL because it's not wrapped in a list.