mdknight666@alien.topB to Data Hoarder@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 1 year ago

youtubedl/yt-dlp - how to download youtube videos with a '-' in their URL?

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youtubedl/yt-dlp - how to download youtube videos with a '-' in their URL?

mdknight666@alien.topB to Data Hoarder@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 1 year ago

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I have some videos with IDs that start with a ‘-’ and I can’t figure out how to download them from the command line. Anyone knows?

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You can always use “–” that is dash dash when video ID starts with ‘-’

like so

yt-dlp – -uEc8_dcYUc

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