

If you recognize/respect YouTube’s right to prohibit downloading, you effectively eliminate all fair use of most videos in the Western world. Outside of China (and possibly a few other countries), YouTube enjoys an overwhelmingly dominant share of the video-hosting market, and many videos are available *only* on YouTube. The bigger issue in “fair use” countries is whether YouTube should be allowed to prohibit downloading in its terms of service. There are also lots of videos (well over a million on Vimeo alone) and even entire *channels* of videos on sites that youtube-dl works on (a couple hundred sites, last I checked) that are expressly given over to the public domain. Options include formatting the names of the downloaded video files, downloading thumbnails, encoding videos, downloading specific formats, and a lot countries with “fair use” exceptions to copyright protection, whether or not any copyright infringement has taken place depends on how the videos are subsequently used. You may check out the entire command reference on the project's GitHub project site. Run youtube-dl -verbose -ci -download-archive "c:\users\mart\Downloads\archive.txt". Just replace the channel URL from the example above with a playlist URL, and youtube-dl will download all the linked videos from the specified playlist. Download all videos from a YouTube playlistĭownloading videos from a playlist works similarly.

You need to replace the channel URL with the URL of the channel that you are interested in.


The program will download all videos from that particular channel make sure you have enough free space no the device. The text file reference has been removed and replaced by the channel URL link. Run youtube-dl -verbose -ci -download-archive "c:\users\mart\Downloads\archive.txt" this time. The core commands are identical, but instead of using a text file containing a list of video URLs, you point the downloader to a playlist URL for the downloading.
