This is a batch script for Windows, and here's what...
September 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is a batch script for Windows, and here's what it does step by step:
-
@echo off
:- Suppresses the display of commands in the command prompt to make the output cleaner.
-
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('powershell -command "Get-Clipboard"') do set clipboard=%%i
:- Runs a PowerShell command (
powershell -command "Get-Clipboard"
) to retrieve the current text content of the clipboard. - The
for
loop captures the output of that command, storing it into a variable (%%i
) and then assigns it to an environment variable namedclipboard
.
- Runs a PowerShell command (
-
yt-dlp "%clipboard%"
:- Executes the program
yt-dlp
(a tool for downloading videos), passing the clipboard content (retrieved in the previous step) as the URL or input. - Essentially, this command downloads a video or other content from the URL that was copied to the clipboard.
- Executes the program
Summary:
This script retrieves the content of the clipboard (likely a URL), saves it in a variable named clipboard
, and passes it to yt-dlp
to download video or media content from the copied URL.
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