YOUTUBE-DL SCRIPT

This script works around "youtube-dl", simply save it as a .command file an run it. It allows to download automatically all the videos saved in a youtube playlist, so that you can keep adding videos to your personal playlist while browsing and then download/sync everything at once by a simple click.

 p="/Users/aaa/Documents/Media/Playlist_YouTube"

 u="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list="

 a="YTDL_index"

 f="m4a"

echo --- Download from YouTube

cd $p

 youtube-dl -c --geo-bypass --embed-thumbnail --yes-playlist --extract-audio --audio-format $f --audio-quality 0 --download-archive $a --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" $u

count=$(ls -1 | grep '\.m4a$' | wc -l)

if [ $count != 0 ] 

then

open .

exit

fi

read -rn1 -p "-- press 'o' to open destination folder or any other key to exit: "  ans

if [[ $ans = o ]] ; then

open .

fi

exit