{"id":7192,"date":"2017-09-01T17:47:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T16:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7192"},"modified":"2017-09-14T21:42:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T20:42:38","slug":"downloading-multiple-youtube-videos-offline-playback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/downloading-multiple-youtube-videos-offline-playback.htm","title":{"rendered":"Downloading multiple YouTube videos for offline playback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/07\/installing-youtube-dl-mac-watch-youtube-videos-working-offline.htm\">I wrote about a nifty utility called youtube-dl that can be used to download content from YouTube for offline playback<\/a> (indeed, I\u2019m writing this on the last day of my holidays, having played precisely none of the content I downloaded to watch whilst I was away!).<\/p>\n<p>In the original post, I suggested giving youtube-dl the URL for a playlist to download all videos in the playlist. It\u2019s also smart in that if it detects any videos that are already present in the folder, it will skip them &#8211; e.g.:<\/p>\n<p><em>[download] Cloud Tech 10 &#8211; 3rd July 2017 &#8211; Azure Machine Learning, Jenkins, Petya detection and more-ymKSGTR55LQ.mp4 has already been downloaded<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But what if you want to download lots of videos that are unrelated &#8211; or just certain videos from a large list? In my case, I wanted to download a bunch of recent videos from the Global Cycling Network (GCN) &#8211; a YouTube channel that I often watch but which has thousands of videos &#8211; I certainly didn\u2019t want to download the entire playlist!<\/p>\n<p>Instead, create a file with the download commands for the individual videos, e.g.:<\/p>\n<p><code>youtube-dl -f 22 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5RsFWlvJjOg<\/code><br \/>\n<code>youtube-dl -f 22 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O7FxZ1kFIW0<\/code><br \/>\n<code>youtube-dl -f 22 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iOaeo3_E8R4<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Rather than sitting at the terminal, running each one and waiting, save the file with a .sh extension (assuming a Unix-based OS &#8211; like MacOS) and then kick them off at once.<\/p>\n<p>My file was called dl-gcn.sh but it\u2019s no good running that from the Terminal &#8211; bash will complain.<\/p>\n<p><em>bash: dl-gcn.sh: command not found<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Instead, <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/a\/235129\">prefix with <code>sh<\/code><\/a> as follows:<\/p>\n<p><code>sh dl-gcn.sh<\/code><\/p>\n<p>and the downloads should run through in serial fashion, whilst you get on with something more interesting\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I wrote about a nifty utility called youtube-dl that can be used to download content from YouTube for offline playback (indeed, I\u2019m writing this on the last day of my holidays, having played precisely none of the content I downloaded to watch whilst I was away!). In the original post, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/downloading-multiple-youtube-videos-offline-playback.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Downloading multiple YouTube videos for offline playback<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[39,270],"class_list":["post-7192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-useful-software","tag-youtube"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Downloading multiple YouTube videos for offline playback - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sometimes, you may want to download multiple videos from YouTube for offline playback. 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