How to download entire youtube playlist on the mac

I know you are looking for an app. But if you use command line, you can play with whole youtube however you want. This is completely free and very fast.

I am providing steps to follow.

1. Open terminal.
2. Use any one of following to install youtube-dl (A downloader written in python).

• Fire these 2 command. (You should have curl installed in your system)

1. sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl  
2. sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl 

• Fire these 2 commands

1. sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl 
2. sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl 

• Or to install with homebrew eneter this command

1. brew install youtube-dl 

3. To Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in a playlist fire this command.

1. youtube-dl -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' PLAYLIST_LINK 

EXAMPLE: -

1. youtube-dl -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re  

4. To Download all playlists of YouTube channel/user keeping each playlist in separate directory fire this command.

1. youtube-dl -o '%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' LINK_TO_CHANNEL_PLAYLISTS 

EXAMPLE:-

1. youtube-dl -o '%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists 

FOR MORE INFORMATION:-

VISIT rg3/youtube-dl