One rainy Tuesday, Elias realized his favorite "Midnight Neon" playlist, a curated 200-track masterpiece, was at risk. He didn't want a clunky desktop app or a site riddled with "Click Here" traps. He wanted something elegant.
: Use a task queue like Celery or RQ so the bot doesn't freeze while one user downloads a 50-video list. ✅ Feature Summary telegram bot to download youtube playlist free
And it was free .
async def playlist_cmd(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE): if not context.args: await update.message.reply_text("Usage: /playlist <playlist_url>") return url = context.args[0] msg = await update.message.reply_text("Processing playlist... this may take a while.") tmpdir = tempfile.mkdtemp() try: ydl_opts = YDL_OPTS_AUDIO.copy() ydl_opts['outtmpl'] = os.path.join(tmpdir, ydl_opts['outtmpl']) with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: info = ydl.extract_info(url, download=True) # Zip results archive = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), f"playlist_info.get('id','0').zip") shutil.make_archive(archive.replace('.zip',''), 'zip', tmpdir) # Send file (Telegram has limits: 50 MB for bots by default, 2GB via getFile upload depending on method) await update.message.reply_document(open(archive, 'rb')) except Exception as e: await update.message.reply_text(f"Error: e") finally: shutil.rmtree(tmpdir, ignore_errors=True) try: os.remove(archive) except: pass One rainy Tuesday, Elias realized his favorite "Midnight
He typed: /start
if file_size_mb > MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB: await update.message.reply_text( f"⚠️ *Skipped:* video_title\n" f"Size: file_size_mb:.1fMB > MAX_FILE_SIZE_MBMB limit", parse_mode='Markdown' ) skipped += 1 continue : Use a task queue like Celery or