BASH tutorial - Bulk Download YouTube Videos

[0penpress]

Hey Kris, is there a way to 'bulk' upload a few clips to You-tube? I think you mentioned once that you had some videos scheduled for upload; unless I misunderstood.

[metalx1000]

@0penpress: yes, with "googlecl". It should be in your repose. It is a command line interface for most of Google's products. It has options for uploading videos to Youtube. Just don't try to upload 5 videos a the same time. That was my mistake :)

[metalx1000]

@Axbent: try:

youtube-dl -U

or

sudo youtube-dl -U

[Axbent]

"no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info" what does that mean?

[metalx1000]

@Axbent: Are you running the most up to date version of youtube-dl?

[Axbent]

@metalx1000 I am now, and it works fine. Any changes in how to bulk download in this version?

[metalx1000]

@Axbent: Well, if all the videos you want to download are in a playlist, you can just give it the playlist link.

youtube-dl -tc "PlaylistURL"

The "t" titles the videos properly and the "c" will continue if were you left off if the download is stop and restart.

[KaeLuX]

All youtube-downloaders I tried so far does not work for me. I always get: ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info



[KaeLuX]

@KaeLuX I digged the githup for this error. simple solution is:

sudo youtube-dl --update

[jamesjones03]

Very cool and informative. You make learning this very easy for me!

[theif519]

Another complication... "Error: No such option: -b Usage: youtube-dl [options] url...

[metalx1000]

@theif519: Don't use the "-b" then. It is no longer needed. Youtube-dl now downloads the best quality available by default.

[theif519]

How do you "Pipe" commands? I don't know how to get the line.

[metalx1000]

@theif519: This is a pipe |

here is an example 3:45

[theif519]

@metalx1000 I mean what's the input? I can't find the Pipe Key on a keyboard, what do I press to get it?

[metalx1000]

@theif519: Oh, well depending on your keyboard layout it should be above the "Enter" key. On the same key as "\", so Shift+\

[theif519]

"ERROR: Unable to download video (format may not be available)

[metalx1000]

@theif519: Do you have the newest version of Youtube-dl? Youtube is always changing there setup and there for Youtube-dl is consistently changing. I have a video on how to easily get the newest version. Please reference that video.

[MannyQi]

Great vid thx! Just a quick question; How do I download a dynamic html page using curl? For example if a site uses ?id=1 to return data. This does not seem to return the dynamic content... Any ideas why and how to make it return that data?

[metalx1000]

@MannyQi: It should. Try using 'lynx'. cURL is more powerful then lynx in some ways. But Lynx, I feel, is simpler for some projects. Watch my videos on getting data from the Marvel website.

I'll send you a link.

[MannyQi]

@metalx1000 I checked out your videos and while trying the initial steps of just getting the URLs I realized that the site I'm trying to do this on (sent you the link...) seems to get it's result through ajax calls. I'm not 100% sure though. Any ideas?

and thanks for your quick response.

[metalx1000]

@MannyQi: In the link you gave me I can see all the links with "lynx" that I can with FireFox. I'm just not sure which ones are the ones you want.

[thegreatbman]

Newer versions of youtube-dl support playlist URLs directly. Example command:

youtube-dl -cit [playlist-url]

(-cit: continue session if necessary, ignore errors, use video title as filename)

[metalx1000]

@thegreatbman: Very Nice! Thumbs up on your comment!

[pheaneasphreak77]

LINUX RULES! :)

[metalx1000]

@pheaneasphreak77:Yes, Yes it does :)

[Foaman]

I wish you showed how to do the download script as well because I would also like to DL jpg files and such.

[metalx1000]

@Foaman: download jpg's from where? wget is always a good option.

[Foaman]

@metalx1000 So you... "do wget -A.jpg" or something?

[metalx1000]

@metalx1000: I sent you a script that should help you on your way.

[Foaman]

Oh my GAWD. This is so cool.

[shantiq]

ok got a question for you metal how would you modify script to download an m3u playlist of youtube vids

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[metalx1000]

@shantiq: are you saying that you have an m3u with a list of links in it that you want to download?

[shantiq]

@metalx1000 yes to download the vids from a playlist so one can make up a playlist and then download all the ones on there

[shantiq]

really good thank you will also check chad vader :::)))))

makes me want to really learn how to do more with bash scripts

[t0d71]

Anyway to do text based batch upload to youtube? that would be convienient

[WBussey64]

you do know in linux all flash videos are automatically downloaded in the temp folder, all you have to do is copy and paste the video. too easy. no need for software.

[metalx1000]

@WBussey64: Not all FLASH videos are, but that is true for Youtube. But, that doesn't help you bulk downloads.

[mouseroot]

i know this is old but these tutorials are superb

wget + curl == awesome!

[metalx1000]

Yeah, you are downloading directly from youtube. There are also plug-ins for firefox that allow you to download videos, if you only need to download one at a time.

[ZERONiCEhacker714]

is this safe??? its downloading from youtube directly right?

[DiriusLV]

I really appreciate your job ! Thank you very much !

[sumersinghable]

very nice dude

[gotbletu]

that was big pimpin, time for me to try now

[Mysticsam86]

how about to make the script paralleled?

[codecaine]

All hail BASH!

[arthursucks]

Watching that was like learning a magic trick! That was awesome!

[metalx1000]

Haha, Thanks.

Comments like this make me happy :)

[ibiraja1]

@metalx1000 Why I get this error message - Error: unable to extract URL "t" parameter ??

[metalx1000]

@ibiraja1: I can't be sure because I don't have enough info.

I don't know what distro you are running or when version number.

I don't know what version of youtube-dl you are running.

And I don't know what the exact command you typed was.

Bu, I did do a Google search of that error and it brings up a bunch of hits.

The first one is a bug report. That may help you some. The bug report is kinda old, but it recommends upgrading to the newest youtube-dl. Which I think there is a brand new one.