#!/usr/bin/env bash # only works with new versions of youtube-dl that don't shuffle the json dump! # pass url of youtube playlist as argument and download in parallel youtube-dl "$1" --flat-playlist -j | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d ',"' | awk '{print "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" $0}' | xargs -n 1 -P 10 youtube-dl