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+I have often used a terminal window and prefixed my input with "git-annex
+addurl" then drag links to the window for pasting.  Often, I have to press the
+up-arrow and run the command again.  The addurl behavior with urls that are
+already locally present, quvi responds "ok."  However, when repeating a command
+using yt-dl, when the url is already local, yt-dl refuses to overwrite, yet
+returns "failed."  I didn't know if you were aware of this.  This isn't a
+show-stopper, but just something I noticed.  I generally do "addurl" manually.
+
+> I tried this, and it's not youtube-dl failing; but it re-downloads
+> the whole content of the already present file, and then git-annex fails:
+> 
+> whatever.mp4 already exists; not overwriting
+> 
+> So I think it needs to ask youtube-dl for the filename first, and check
+> if the local file already exists and already has the url, to get back to
+> the old behavior.
+> -- [[Joey]]
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 2"""
+ date="2017-12-31T16:25:07Z"
+ content="""
+It uses whatever youtube-dl you have in PATH.
+
+I was not aware of the changed behavior when adding an url that's already
+locally present. I've opened [[bugs/addurl_youtube-dl_behavior_change]]
+to remember to look into it.
+
+The reason it only downloads one video from a playlist or channel is that
+git-annex needs to associate an url with the annexed file, so it can later
+download that single file when git-annex get is used, and there's no clear
+way to associate an url with a particular file that youtube-dl downloaded
+from a playlist or channel or whatever. [[tips/downloading_podcasts]] has a
+way to use `git annex importfeed` with a youtube playlist though.
+"""]]