Youtube-DL and Alfred

[samkrauser]

Hi,

 

First time posting here, looking for some help.

 

I want to create a workflow that allows me execute my youtube-dl command in the terminal and I also want to create a folder to put the downloaded files in.

 

So basically the workflow needs to cd to a directory(predefined) and then make a newly named folder (query 1) and then download the file(s) from the URL (query 2).

 

I've done some looking around at having more than 1 query in alfred and I found some bin/bash script that works:

#!/bin/bash

# split the query into an argument array
IFS=',' read -a qarg <<< "{query}"

# set the x and y queries from the array
x=${qarg[0]}
y=${qarg[1]}

But I'm not sure how to take those 2 queries and feed them into a terminal command within Alfred.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance, I'm pretty new to this sorta stuff, but really loving Alfred and the stuff you can do!

[deanishe]

mkdir -p "$x"

/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --output "$x/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$y"

[deanishe]

I think I misunderstood your question.
 
Add the 2 lines I posted above to the bottom of the script you have (they will pass your arguments to youtube-dl), and then paste the whole lot in a Run Script action in Alfred's workflow builder. Set Language to /bin/bash and then connect it to your Keyword (where you enter your query).