youtube-dl downloads the whole playlist when I only want one video

[Rudloff]

If I give a link like this to youtube-dl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJjhopcLoeI&list=PLPhiEhN4hsb6uSAuYUgRN2mKWq2g_ooB4&index=17, I expect him to only download this one video but it downloads the whole playlist.

Shouldn't it download the video only if I specify the playlist URL (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPhiEhN4hsb6uSAuYUgRN2mKWq2g_ooB4) ?

[jaimeMF]

It was discussed in #755 and we decided to download the playlist by default if the list parameter is in the url. The main reason for doing it is that getting the url to the list is not so easy. But you can use the --no-playlist option to download only the video.

[Rudloff]

Oh, I didn't see the --no-playlist option, sorry...

[jaimeMF]

Don't worry and sorry if I sounded rude , I didn't want to.