Download playlist from youtube, soundcloud and others.

youtube-dl-playlist.md

Download entire playlist with youtube-dl

works for soundcloud as well

• First get youtube-dl
  • Debian/Ubuntu sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
  • Arch/Manjaro/Antergos sudo pacman -S youtube-dl or yaourt youtube-dl and pick the packages you want
• Then open a terminal
  • create a directory for the files mkdir playlist-name (change playlist-name to whatever name you want for the directory)
  • change current directory to it cd playlist-name
• Finally enter the command

  youtube-dl -f bestaudio --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail -c -i -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' --download-archive completed.txt URL

  • Don't forget to replace URL with the url of the playlist

Sample for dummies

mkdir Music/lofi-hiphop-study
cd Music/lofi-hiphop-study
youtube-dl -f bestaudio --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail -c -i -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' --download-archive completed.txt https://soundcloud.com/chillhopdotcom/sets/lofihiphop