Help me to use external downloader

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Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -v <your command line>
PS C:\Users\vicky\downloads> youtube-dl -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.04.1
[debug] Python version 3.4.3 - Windows-8-6.2.9200
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.
PS C:\Users\vicky\downloads>

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i need help to use external downloader i generate downloading url from video streaming site and its save in link.txt using your command like this youtube-dl --verbose http://app.pluralsight.com/courses/nodejs-security-express-angular-get-started --get-url --username [e-mail] --password 12345 > links.txt

after that its save links in txt file but now i want to download these videos through external download so can you plz explain me what is exact command to use it and it will read this txt file and download all videos

this txt file saving in this directory C:\Users\vicky\Downloads

thanks

[remitamine]

it’s possible with some scripting to do what you want using aria2c(save files with proper name), the links file should be like this:

url1
 out=file1.mp4
url2
 out=file2.mp4

[remitamine]

i didn’t said that you have to change the url, i said:

original_url
 out=filename.mp4

replace original_url with the original url and filename.mp4 with filename related to the url. put it in a file and download it using:aria2c -i links.txt.