How to download a youtube playlist with numbered prefix via youtube-dl?

Question

I have a Youtube playlist, I want to download it but I want youtube-dl to name the files like 1-{name}, 2-{name}, ... n-{name} in order to be able to watch them in the same sequence as original Youtube playlist. In other words I need my downloaded videos to be prefixed with numbers. How can I do that?

Solution 1

The best solution I found is:

youtube-dl -o "%(playlist_index)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" <playlist_link>

Solution 2

I think using

youtube-dl --auto-number url

will do it.

Solution 3

Use the -o option with playlist_index and the format <n>d like this:

youtube-dl -o "%(playlist_index)2d - %(title)s.%(ext)s"
#                               .
#                              /|\
#                               |

or 3d or 4d and so on, as in C's printf:

• Using 2d, you get numbers starting from 01
• Using 3d, you get numbers starting from 001
• And so on...

Solution 4

Please use the below link to download playlist in numbers in increment at first followed by title of the content

youtube-dl -cio '%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s' 'Paste your playlist link'

Solution 5

excellent! but it leaves you with a file called 00001nameoffile
so run:

rename 's/000//g' *

afterwards
to get 01,02,03 etc
For this line below

youtube-dl -cio '%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s' 'Paste your playlist link'

or as one line:

youtube-dl -cio '%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s' url ; rename 's/000//g' *

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Comments

[Iman Mohamadi]

This is grate, Only one single issue and that's it messes with the names and replace a part of their names with a number. I fixed my issue myself by getting the main idea from your answer.

[Igor Stoppa]

@ImanMohamadi Could you please post what you did to fix the issue you mentioned?

[Iman Mohamadi]

@IgorStoppa I've already added it as an answer my self and choose it a the best solution. see above.

[Fabby]

How is this answer any better then the accepted answer?

[Sairam62cse]

Try it out and check which is best

[userDepth]

Actually, he can check the man page and see what those options do. As I will

[Flimm]

What is the difference between %(playlist_index)s and %(autonumber)s?

[Iman Mohamadi]

@Flimm autonumber uses the number in your download queue, if you restart the download it will be reset. playlist_index uses index of video in playlist and is a better option if you want to stop and resume your download later.

[atmin]

better replace "2d" with "02d" to get e.g. "01 - title" instead of " 1 - title" names.

[Nabil Kadimi]

@atmin - 2d does that already.

[atmin]

it didn't for me, youtube-dl --version → 2018.12.09

[fran tardencilla]

"WARNING: --auto-number is deprecated. Use -o "%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" instead."

[damccull]

c: force resume download -- i: ignore errors (like unavailable video) -- o: output location

[John Pankowicz]

It didn't for me either. My youtube-dl version is 2019.06.27. Using "02d" worked.

[Admin]

Any idea on resolving when playlist index has been changed overtime? I already have alot of downloaded videos but their index is messed up. I don't wish to rename each one of them individually.

[SergioAraujo]

I am sharing an youtube-dl config file with interesting options including this one

[Tomasz Gandor]

I would even go as far as: %(playlist_index)02d for playlists 10-99 items long.

[user3342816]

@TomaszGandor Exactly what I was looking for! Though it do add 0 if more then 9 items, I want to have 0N for conformity :)