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How to output playlist title as file name

Open kylebriffa7 opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

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Question

Hi everyone.

Objective: I would like to output (dump) the list of videos within a playlist to a json formatted file - having the playlist title as the file name.

Current Solution: At the moment I use the following syntax: youtube-dl --flat-playlist --dump-json https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=<insertplaylistid> > output.json

Problem: The problem is that i have to manually rename the file to the playlist title, which is time consuming to do for multiple playlists.

Ultimate Solution: (Ideally I would list the playlist id's in a text file and the script goes through it and outputs the json file automatically which would be the ultimate solution.)

OS: Windows 10 Terminal: Command Prompt

Thank you for your help!

kylebriffa7 avatar Jul 17 '22 08:07 kylebriffa7