Youtube dl change download directory

[David Banner]

This site says

if you are downloading a lot of videos, you should change directories to the directory where you want to save the videos before you start downloading them

.How do you do that. ? How do you do it for one video. It seems it must download into the folder the youtube-dl.exe is That is an ubuntu site. I have win 764 bit

I would like to be able to download into a separate folder i.e separate from where youtube-dl.exe is and then move them to where i want

[1957classic]

This should work:

youtube-dl -f best -ci -o "YT Downloads\%(title)s.%(ext)s" [video url]

Use double% if you put it in a batch file.

[sneaker]

If you always want the same folder you can also store that in a config file.
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#configuration

[David Banner]

This should work:

youtube-dl -f best -ci -o "YT Downloads\%(title)s.%(ext)s" [video url]

Use double% if you put it in a batch file.

Works thanks
I do not understand Use double% if you put it in a batch file.

I made a bat file to open the command window at the youtube dl directory. How do i add ]youtube-dl -f best -ci -o "YT Downloads\%(title)s.%(ext)s" so to download i only have to paste in the url

[David Banner]

If you always want the same folder you can also store that in a config file.
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#configuration

will check it out, thanks

[sneaker]

I made a bat file to open the command window at the youtube dl directory. How do i add ]youtube-dl -f best -ci -o "YT Downloads\%(title)s.%(ext)s" so to download i only have to paste in the url

@echo off
set /p url="Enter URL to download:"
"c:\program files (x86)\youtube-dl\youtube-dl.exe" -o "C:\downloads\%%(title)s-%%(id)s.%%(ext)s" "%url%"

(Change download path and youtube-dl.exe path as needed. Since you are using a bat file you don't need to use a config file to store the download path. Either way is fine.)

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/382524-How-to-get-started-with-youtube-dl-from-the...command-prompt

[David Banner]

I made a bat file to open the command window at the youtube dl directory. How do i add ]youtube-dl -f best -ci -o "YT Downloads\%(title)s.%(ext)s" so to download i only have to paste in the url

@echo off
set /p url="Enter URL to download:"
"c:\program files (x86)\youtube-dl\youtube-dl.exe" -o "C:\downloads\%%(title)s-%%(id)s.%%(ext)s" "%url%"

(Change download path and youtube-dl.exe path as needed. Since you are using a bat file you don't need to use a config file to store the download path. Either way is fine.)

That works but it does not download to the specific YT Downloads folder but the one youtube-dl.exe is in

[sneaker]

Did you change "C:\Downloads\" to the path you want them stored in? I'm not psychic so I used an example. You have to change the paths to your needs.

[David Banner]

Did you change "C:\Downloads\" to the path you want them stored in? I'm not psychic so I used an example. You have to change the paths to your needs.

missed that sorry. i did change the path to youtube-dl.exe. thanks
works great really convenient just paste url and it is in the folder i want

[David Banner]

@ sneaker. is there any way to edit the bat file so it will create a folder in the downloads folder for each new download?

[sneaker]

Youtube-dl will do that automatically if a folder doesn't exist yet. You can use the wild cards for folders just like you can for file names.

[David Banner]

Youtube-dl will do that automatically if a folder doesn't exist yet. .

Thanks. mine downloads into a download folder but i want it to create a sub folder because i may be downloading a playlist of several videos and want them altogether

[sneaker]

Yeah, so?
change e.g.
-o "c:\downloads\file.ext"
to
o "c:\downlods\more\folders\whatever\you\want\file.e xt"

You can use the wildcards wherever you want.