BULK MODE · UP TO 40
Forty links.One pass.
One-at-a-time is fine for one video. It is not fine for a match day, a conference, or an archive job. Paste the whole list and let the queue work while you do something else.
40 LINKS/BATCHPARALLEL QUEUESKIP ON FAILCSV PASTE OK
01 · TOGGLE
Bulk mode on
The field becomes a list. One link per line, or comma-separated straight out of a spreadsheet.
02 · QUEUE
Order is kept
Links resolve in parallel and download in the order you pasted, so a slow one does not block the rest.
03 · SALVAGE
Failures do not stop it
A dead or private link is reported and skipped. You get everything that could be fetched, not an aborted batch.
Downloading many X videos in one go
Rate limits are the reason most batch downloaders fall over halfway. XDL resolves links in parallel but paces the actual fetches, so a batch of forty completes instead of tripping a limit at link nine and losing the rest.
Anything that produces a list works as input: a copied column, a thread scraped into a text file, a set of links from a research doc. Duplicates are collapsed before the queue starts, so pasting an overlapping list twice does not download anything twice.
Questions
- How many links per batch?
- Forty. Beyond that, split the list — the constraint is X's rate limiting, not the queue.
- What happens to links that fail?
- They are listed with a reason and skipped. The batch finishes with everything that was reachable.
- Can I mix MP4 and MP3 in one batch?
- Not in one pass — the format applies to the batch. Run the list twice if you want both.
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