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How to download a whole YouTube playlist
Paste a playlist link instead of a video link and ClipKoala expands it into a batch of that playlist's most recent videos, each with its own quality and audio options. This is the fastest route to a lecture series, a conference track, or an album of your own uploads, as long as you know where the limits sit.
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Copy the playlist link, not a video link
Open the playlist and copy the URL containing list=. A watch URL that happens to have a playlist attached works too, because the playlist ID is what gets read. Channel and @handle links behave the same way and expand into recent uploads.
Paste it and let it expand
ClipKoala loads the playlist and switches into batch mode automatically, queuing the most recent videos. If the playlist is longer than one batch, you will be told how many of the total were queued.
Choose formats per video, or take them all
Each row expands to show its own quality and audio choices, so you can take one talk as 1080p video and the rest as MP3. Save all takes the top option for every finished row.
Work through long playlists in blocks
Batches are capped at 10 links and fetched three at a time. For a 40-video series, run four batches back to back rather than looking for a setting that lifts the cap: there is not one, and the cap is what keeps each fetch quick.
Try it now
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Good to know
- Audio-only is much faster than video for a long lecture series
- Private and unlisted videos inside an otherwise public playlist will fail individually and can be retried or skipped
- A channel link queues recent uploads the same way a playlist does