Project Dumbledore - How to download YouTube Playlist on your system

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As, I was going through some great lectures available on YouTube, I thought of saving them all in a playlist and then downloading them all for offline viewing on my system.

After googling for few minutes, I found this great command line program youtube-dl to achieve this. It ticks all the right boxes - simple, open source, platform independent and python based.

To install this on Ubuntu based systems, run the following command on your terminal:

 sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

To download YouTube playlist, run the following command:

youtube-dl -ctik https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=XXXXXX

It has many other great features, be sure to explore them all. Though, I have found a problem that it downloads video and audio files separately and then combines them together in a single file leaving two extra files after each download which needs to be removed after the download is complete. I haven't looked into it to find the issue. If I find the solution, I will update this article, all in all, this is the best program I've to download the YouTube Playlist with just one command.

Hope, others also find it useful. And are able to organize their own offline YouTube Parties as well.


Shout out to Good Samaritans @ http://xmodulo.com/

Ciao.
MG.  

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