Change name of the video file using youtube-dl not working

Question

I am downloading a video file from a link using youtube-dl. https://res.cloudinary.com/dqozdyzvu/video/upload/v1514809216/29836749002162.mp4

youtube-dl https://res.cloudinary.com/dqozdyzvu/video/upload/v1514809216/29836749002162.mp4

The name of the file that is getting saved is

29836749002162.29836749002162.mp4

I want to change the name of the file to video.mp4. I tried using this command

youtube-dl -o '%(video)s.%(mp4)s' https://res.cloudinary.com/dqozdyzvu/video/upload/v1514809216/29836749002162.mp4

But it saved as:

NA.NA

What changes could be made in the command to save the file exactly as Video.mp4?

Solution

Open the terminal and type:

youtube-dl -o video.mp4 https://res.cloudinary.com/dqozdyzvu/video/upload/v1514809216/29836749002162.mp4

This command saves the file exactly as video.mp4 in the current directory.

The % characters in '%(video)s.%(mp4)s' in your question are used to denote an output template which will be replaced by the actual value corresponding to the sequence name. Note that some of the sequences are not guaranteed to be present since they depend on the metadata obtained by a particular extractor. Such sequences will be replaced with NA which stands for Not Available.

Comments

[Ravexina]

Why not using wget for downloading direct links? wget -ct0 -O video.mp4 http://link.com/video30303.mp4