download all videos linked in links.txt, interface for youtube-dl

youtube-dl.py

"""
import subprocess

with open("links.txt") as infile:
    lines = infile.readlines()

    for line in lines:
        filename = line.split("/")[-2]
        command_line = f"youtube-dl {line} --verbose {filename}.mp4"
        pipe = subprocess.Popen(command_line, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout
        output = pipe.read().decode()
        pipe.close()
"""
import youtube_dl

retries = 1

with open("links.txt") as infile:
    lines = infile.readlines()

    for line in lines:
        for retry in range(retries):
            try:
                print(f"retry: {retry}")

                #ydl_opts = {'outtmpl': filename, 'cookiefile': cookiefile}
                ydl_opts = {}
                ydl_opts['format'] = 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio'

                with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
                    ydl.download([line])
                break

            except Exception as e:
                print(e)