Youtube – List all titles in order on a YouTube playlist

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I have downloaded some YouTube videos in a playlist for offline viewing that have no indication of play order. I would like to know what the best means of listing the videos – in order – is so I can organise them locally?

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You can use youtube-dl for this, and specify the playlist_index tag in the output template.

For example:

youtube-dl -o "%(playlist_index)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y064kgSr0gc&list=RDy064kgSr0gc"

will download all the videos in this playlist and add the index number in the order of the playlist, padded with zeroes to accommodate the length of the playlist.

The -o flag specifies the output template.

Other useful flags for playlists are:

--playlist-start NUMBER          Playlist video to start at (default is 1)

--playlist-end NUMBER            Playlist video to end at (default is last)

--playlist-items ITEM_SPEC       Playlist video items to download. Specify
                                 indices of the videos in the playlist
                                 separated by commas like: "--playlist-items
                                 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos
                                 indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can
                                 specify range: "--playlist-items
                                 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos
                                 at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.

There is also an autonumber tag for use in the output template, which inserts a 5 digit number, in the order downloaded.

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