youtube-dl-parallel

A small utility program to spawn a number of youtube-dl processes in parallel.

Requirements

• GNU Parallel
• youtube-dl

Documentation

Usage: youtube-dl-parallel [-hj] <url> [<url> ...] [-- <youtube-dl options>]
    -h       : Shows this help message.
    -j <jobs>: The number of jobs to run in parallel. The default is 3.

If “-” is provided as an argument, then urls will additionally be read from stdin.

Caveats

To download a YouTube playlist or channel using youtube-dl-parallel you'll need to first find all the videos in that collection.

youtube-dl --get-id <playlist or channel> | youtube-dl-parallel -

License

Copyright (c) 2013 DLH. See LICENSE.txt for the MIT license.