Download part of a playlist from YouTube using youtube-dl

Question

How can I use youtube-dl to download a given playlist from YouTube but starting with a given video? For example I want to download a YouTube playlist by starting from the 5th video and not the first one.

Any help would be appreciated.

@mikewhatever can you explain why it's a problem that can't be reproduced, that seemingly went away on its own or was only relevant to a very specific period of time? — Exeleration-G, Jan 15 '16 at 08:29

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '14 at 17:32

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From the man pages:

--playlist-start NUMBER          playlist video to start at (default is 1)

So in your case: youtube-dl --playlist-start 5 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-qBHd6_LXWaytjEA5obaZz1syWcUGY0Q

answered Jul 06 '14 at 17:32

Exeleration-G

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '14 at 17:36

$ youtube-dl -cit --playlist-start 5 "playlist link"

example :

$ mkdir tuts
$ cd tuts
$ youtube-dl -cit --playlist-start 5 "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL86CB94C68F628D19"

playlist Ubuntu Tutorial: Collected 21 video ids (downloading 17 of them)

more info

$ youtube-dl --help

Download part of a playlist from YouTube using youtube-dl

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