I concur, youtube-dl is what I’ve been using during the last few years: whenever I find a YT video I might want to watch again, I now immediately download it. Learned the need for that the hard way.
With --add-metadata you can embed the YT video description in the video file.
The downloaded video file name will contain the YT identifier so you can still match them back if needed.
There is another option to save the metadata to a separate JSON file if you prefer that.
To download your playlists, give it each playlist’s URL instead of the video url:
That example URL includes a specific video from the list, but will download all of them. It works just the same if you only give it the `list` parameter, but all links to playlists I’ve seen point to one of their videos.
The option --ignore-errors will jump over the unavailable videos instead of stopping.
Edit to add:
If you want to download your playlists as separate directories, with each video file name including its original index in the playlist, see these examples in youtube-dl’s documentation:
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...
Check out its options here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...
With --add-metadata you can embed the YT video description in the video file. The downloaded video file name will contain the YT identifier so you can still match them back if needed.
There is another option to save the metadata to a separate JSON file if you prefer that.
To download your playlists, give it each playlist’s URL instead of the video url:
That example URL includes a specific video from the list, but will download all of them. It works just the same if you only give it the `list` parameter, but all links to playlists I’ve seen point to one of their videos.The option --ignore-errors will jump over the unavailable videos instead of stopping.
Edit to add: If you want to download your playlists as separate directories, with each video file name including its original index in the playlist, see these examples in youtube-dl’s documentation: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...