youtube-dl download location

Question

I am trying to save youtube videos as MP3's in my downloads folder. However, this ends up saving files in the same directory as youtube-dl.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality=320k 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID 
--output C:/Users/Josue/Downloads/%(title)s.%(ext)s

I wanted the videos to save at:

C:/Users/Josue/Downloads/videotitle.mp3

however, they are saving as:

C:/youtube-dl/videotitle-videoID.mp3

Am I doing something incorrectly? I tried reading the documentation on Github, but I was still a bit confused.

Lexy

Answer 1

I needed to put the options in the following order:

youtube-dl --output C:/Users/Josue/Downloads/%(title)s.%(ext)s
 --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 
 --audio-quality=320k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID

Lexy

The order of options is ignored by youtube-dl. – Fivestar

@phihag, not really; the URL(s) must come after the options. In his original post, he was putting the output after the URL. – Josiahjosias

Answer 2

Try:

cd C:\Users\Josue\Downloads
C:\youtube-dl\youtube-dl --etc

Urinalysis

Or better, use pushd and popd. – Josiahjosias

Answer 3

This worked for me (for a unix environment):

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<video_id> --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o '/var/www/html/audio/%(id)s.%(ext)s' 

Posy

Answer 4

Windows - double %

%%(title)s.%%(ext)s

Bid

Answer 5

you can create a configuration file to do this for you , just add those lines to your config file (if you have one, if not create it in C:/Users/Josue youtube-dl.conf) -o C:/Users/Josue/Downloads/%(title)s.%(ext)s . Link for details

Gaudette