how to set up default download location in youtube-dl

Question

how can I set default download location in youtube-dl so that everything that I download with youtube-dl goes into that default directory?

Answer 1

Here is the complete solution I use:

from youtube_dl import YoutubeDL
ydl_opts = {
   'format': 'best',
   'outtmpl': 'DIR-PATH-HERE%(title)s'+'.mp4',
   'noplaylist': True,
   'extract-audio': True,
}

video = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlPhMPnQ58k"
with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
   info_dict = ydl.extract_info(video, download=True)
   video_url = info_dict.get("url", None)
   video_id = info_dict.get("id", None)
   video_title = info_dict.get('title', None)
   video_length = info_dict.get('duration')

# print(video_title)