Questions on youtube-dl playlist download

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1

Lets suppose if i want to dowonload an entire playlist through youtube-dl but i want to choose a different format as well download subtitles for the entire playlist. How do i do it?

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You just choose the desired options, declare the playlist to download and every video will have the options applied.

Example:

youtube-dl \
  --config-location . \
  --no-mark-watched \
  --format best \
  --output '%(upload_date)s_%(channel)s_%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s' \
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/videos
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