# Question Regarding Downloading NLQ clips

**URL:** <https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/question-regarding-downloading-nlq-clips/939>\
**Category:** Q&A\
**Created:** [May 15, 2025, 7:54am UTC](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/question-regarding-downloading-nlq-clips/939 "2025-05-15T07:54:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![RyanPan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9a28c/32.png) [@RyanPan](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/u/RyanPan)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 7:54am UTC](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/question-regarding-downloading-nlq-clips/939/1 "2025-05-15T07:54:37Z")

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Hello everyone! I was just trying to download the NLQ clips of the dataset using this command:  
ego4d --output\_directory=“./ego4d\_data/” --datasets annotations clips --benchmarks NLQ  
However, this does not download the video. How can I fix this?

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**Author:** ![RyanPan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9a28c/32.png) [@RyanPan](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/u/RyanPan)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/question-regarding-downloading-nlq-clips/939/2 "2025-05-15T07:56:28Z")

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So now I’m trying to download EM directly, this could download videos. I don’t know what’s going wrong.

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**Author:** ![TRS07170](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@TRS07170](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/u/TRS07170)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/question-regarding-downloading-nlq-clips/939/3 "2025-05-22T08:31:34Z")

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Hi, could you please share the command you used for downloading the clips? I had the same problem. I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “download EM directly”. Really appreciate it!

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**Author:** ![RyanPan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9a28c/32.png) [@RyanPan](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/u/RyanPan)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/question-regarding-downloading-nlq-clips/939/5 "2025-05-22T08:59:52Z")

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I used this command:  
ego4d --output\_directory=“./ego4d\_data/” --datasets annotations clips --benchmarks EM  
This could download the entire EM. And I think NLQ clips is a subset of EM? According to their document

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**Author:** ![TRS07170](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@TRS07170](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/u/TRS07170)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/question-regarding-downloading-nlq-clips/939/6 "2025-05-22T18:20:22Z")

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Thanks! This works for me.