Use youtube-dl to download all the playlists of a channel

Question

I want to download all the playlists of a youtube channel using youtube-dl. The following command downloads all the videos even with --yes-playlist option:

youtube-dl --yes-playlist -f best -ciw -o "${outdir}/%(uploader)s/playlists/%(playlist)s/videos/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" -v $channel_url

Answer 1

I found the solution:

in order to download them as playlists, set the channel url to the playlist section of the channel, i.e.

Correct

channel_url="https://www.youtube.com/user/channelname/playlists"

Incorrect

channel_url="https://www.youtube.com/user/channelname/"