How to download a youtube playlist with numbered prefix via youtube-dl?

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I have a Youtube playlist, I want to download it but I want youtube-dl to name the files like 1-{name}, 2-{name}, ... n-{name} in order to be able to watch them in the same sequence as original Youtube playlist. In other words I need my downloaded videos to be prefixed with numbers. How can I do that?

Iman Mohamadi · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-26T07:44:56.957

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The best solution I found is:

youtube-dl -o "%(playlist_index)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" <playlist_link>

edited Nov 26 '15 at 07:44

answered Nov 07 '15 at 10:16

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What is the difference between `%(playlist_index)s` and `%(autonumber)s`? – Flimm May 23 '18 at 14:11
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@Flimm autonumber uses the number in your download queue, if you restart the download it will be reset. playlist_index uses index of video in playlist and is a better option if you want to stop and resume your download later. – Iman Mohamadi May 29 '18 at 05:30
Any idea on resolving when playlist index has been changed overtime? I already have alot of downloaded videos but their index is messed up. I don't wish to rename each one of them individually. – Apr 28 '20 at 13:21
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I would even go as far as: `%(playlist_index)02d` for playlists 10-99 items long. – Tomasz Gandor Sep 29 '21 at 13:53
@TomaszGandor Exactly what I was looking for! Though it do add `0` if more then 9 items, I want to have `0N` for conformity :) – user3342816 Dec 21 '21 at 20:51

SarpSTA · Answer 2 · 2015-11-06T23:33:36.557

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I think using

youtube-dl --auto-number url

will do it.

edited Nov 06 '15 at 23:33

answered Nov 06 '15 at 23:21

SarpSTA

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This is grate, Only one single issue and that's it messes with the names and replace a part of their names with a number. I fixed my issue myself by getting the main idea from your answer. – Iman Mohamadi Nov 07 '15 at 10:14
@ImanMohamadi Could you please post what you did to fix the issue you mentioned? – Igor Stoppa Oct 31 '16 at 11:25
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@IgorStoppa I've already added it as an answer my self and choose it a the best solution. see above. – Iman Mohamadi Nov 02 '16 at 05:05
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"WARNING: --auto-number is deprecated. Use -o "%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" instead." – Boris Pavlović Jan 18 '19 at 07:22

Nabil Kadimi · Answer 3 · 2022-06-12T03:31:21.980

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Use the -o option with playlist_index and the format <n>d like this:

youtube-dl -o "%(playlist_index)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s" PLaPV8TkYEUV05rhlfVKXKqxvTkQ_3Tqek
#                               .
#                              /|\
#                               |

edited Jun 12 '22 at 03:31

answered Oct 08 '18 at 08:05

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better replace "2d" with "02d" to get e.g. "01 - title" instead of " 1 - title" names. – atmin Dec 10 '18 at 03:30
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@atmin - `2d` does that already. – Nabil Kadimi Dec 10 '18 at 13:26
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it didn't for me, `youtube-dl --version` → `2018.12.09` – atmin Dec 11 '18 at 16:10
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It didn't for me either. My youtube-dl version is 2019.06.27. Using "02d" worked. – John Pankowicz Jul 12 '19 at 13:51
I am sharing [an youtube-dl config](https://bitbucket.org/sergio/dotfaster/raw/c1ad20072bc4d2c7f63a094b299dffaae28b7494/youtube-dl.config) file with interesting options including this one – SergioAraujo Nov 14 '20 at 14:46
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@SergioAraujo, that file is not available right now. – nyxee Jun 11 '22 at 01:55

score 10 · Answer 4 · edited Nov 02 '16 at 20:35

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Please use the below link to download playlist in numbers in increment at first followed by title of the content

youtube-dl -cio '%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s' 'Paste your playlist link'

edited Nov 02 '16 at 20:35

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answered Nov 02 '16 at 17:21

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How is this answer any better then the accepted answer? – Fabby Nov 02 '16 at 20:36
Try it out and check which is best – Sairam62cse Nov 05 '16 at 02:47
Actually, he can check the man page and see what those options do. As I will – userDepth Jul 21 '17 at 12:31
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c: force resume download -- i: ignore errors (like unavailable video) -- o: output location – damccull Jul 06 '19 at 18:44

shantiq · Answer 5 · 2017-07-21T13:03:09.327

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excellent! but it leaves you with a file called 00001nameoffile
so run:

rename 's/000//g' *

afterwards
to get 01,02,03 etc
For this line below

youtube-dl -cio '%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s' 'Paste your playlist link'

or as one line:

youtube-dl -cio '%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s' url ; rename 's/000//g' *

edited Jul 21 '17 at 13:03

answered Jul 21 '17 at 12:22

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How to download a youtube playlist with numbered prefix via youtube-dl?

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