Downloading YouTube Playlists or Liked Videos Using yt-dlp

Prerequisites

1. Install Homebrew (macOS/Linux)

   /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

2. Install yt-dlp

   brew install yt-dlp

3. Install the YouTube Video Downloader

   git clone https://github.com/AAlkiyumi/Youtube-Video-Downloader.git

Extracting Links from a YouTube Playlist

Option 1: Using Chrome Extension

1. Install the YouTube URL Scraper Extension

   git clone https://github.com/AAlkiyumi/Youtube-URL-Scraper-Chrome-Extension.git

   • Go to chrome://extensions
   • Enable "Developer mode"
   • Click "Load unpacked" and select the extension folder

2. Get URLs

   • Open your YouTube liked videos/playlist
   • Click the extension icon
   • Select the videos you would like to download
   • Click "Download Selected URLs"

Option 2: Manual Extraction

1. Open Playlist
   Open your liked videos or playlist in Chrome

2. Scroll to Load All Videos
   Press End key repeatedly until all videos are loaded

3. Extract Links using Console Command Open Developer Tools in your browser by pressing F12 and go to the Console tab Copy and paste the following script into the console:

   var links = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
   for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
       if (links[i].href.includes("&list=LL&index=")) {
           console.log(links[i].href);
       }
   }

4. Save the Output

   • Use a text editor like Notepad++ or any tool of your choice to remove unnecessary parts of the links
   • Paste the links to url.txt

Key differences:

• Option 1 (Extension) allows user to easily get video URLs and creates url.txt
• Option 2 (Manual) requires console work but needs no extensions
• Both methods ensure clean URLs without &list= parameters

Download Videos

1. Place url.txt in your working directory
2. Run Download

   python3 main.py