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I want to scrape information from a YouTube playlist/channel (including Upload Date, Title, URL, Duration, View Count) using youtube-dl without downloading the videos.

There's a very useful example here on how to use the dump-json switch together with jq, but it only output the URLs.

Basically, in the command line, how do I use the keys with dump-json?

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This command will dumb json data of the given link to terminal

youtube-dl -j 'link'

capture this into a file using 

youtube-dl -j 'link' >> example_text.txt
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Get Youtube playlist titles and urls:

youtube-dl --flat-playlist -j <playlist_link> | jq ".title, .url"

Get Youtube video title and duration:

youtube-dl --get-title --get-duration <video_link>
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