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Re: youtube video downloader for chrome



On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:34:42 +0100 (CET)
Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, riveravaldez wrote:
> 
> > Maybe worth mentioning: youtube-dl, exceptionally useful and simple CLI tool.
> 
>    useful and simple... but it works only for urls with alphanumeric characters
>    I tried with an url containing ? and &, and I got nothing
>    I tried also by escaping ? and & with \, and it was not better.
>    I'll send you an example later, if you are not convinced...

You can also try putting the url(s) in a file, and feeding the file to
youtube-dl via its -a option.

Celejar


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