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Downloading videos to an external drive with youtube-dl

rated 0 times [ 9] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 9012 / 2 Years ago, sat, january 15, 2022, 9:36:41

My Hard drive has very little free space left. Thus I am trying to get youtube-dl to save the videos onto my external drive. With no luck, so far. Has anyone tried that? Or any ideas on how to proceed? I am new to linux and my interactions with the command prompt can be found below.

me@mycomputer:/$ youtube-dl -o 'media/New Volume/Youtube Downloads' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456789

me@mycomputer:/$ youtube-dl -o '/media/New Volume/Youtube Downloads' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456789

I thought that would save the videos on the external drive, but instead the things are getting saved in my home folder under ~/media/New Volume/Youtube Downloads.
Any help is welcome!

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answered 2 Years ago diket · Accepted Answer

How about:

cd '/media/New Volume/Youtube Downloads'

youtube-dl URL1...

youtube-dl URL2...



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