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I am trying to use youtube-dl to download all my public playlists from youtube in Windows 7 using the following taken from the documentation:

youtube-dl -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"

but it only downloads my uploads.

I tried modifying using code found online to this 

youtube-dl -citw "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "Userlink/playlists"

but now all it downloads is my favourites in the same directory as the executable. Can someone suggest what I need to change? Thanks.

Michael
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Downloading using youtube-dl as playlists

# Download as audio in respective folder
$youtube-dl -ic -o "~/Videos/Youtube-dl/audios/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s- %(title)s.%(ext)s" --yes-playlist --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0

# Download as video in respective folder
$youtube-dl -f best --ignore-errors -o "~/Videos/Youtube-dl/videos/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s- %(title)s.%(ext)s" --yes-playlist

ProTip: If you're on a linux system then use alias to set shortcuts like

# Download as audio in respective folder
$alias y.dl.audio='youtube-dl -ic -o "~/Videos/Youtube-dl/audios/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s- %(title)s.%(ext)s" --yes-playlist --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0'

# Download as video in respective folder
$alias y.dl.video='youtube-dl -f best --ignore-errors -o "~/Videos/Youtube-dl/videos/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s- %(title)s.%(ext)s" --yes-playlist'
Abhi Gatty
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