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Little-known but very helpful feature of Youtube-dl: paste a URL to a playlist in, and it'll dutifully download every video in the playlist.


It's helpful to use

    -i, --ignore-errors
When doing that. By default, if a playlist contains a single video that's no longer available, youtube-dl will stop downloading the playlist when it hits that video.

When playing a youtube playlist in mpv with youtube-dl, sometimes --load-unsafe-playlists is needed. This is rare however.


Even better: it can use a batch file with URLs




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