diff --git a/Annex/YoutubeDl.hs b/Annex/YoutubeDl.hs
index 28ba26138b..5607400c1b 100644
--- a/Annex/YoutubeDl.hs
+++ b/Annex/YoutubeDl.hs
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ youtubeDlFileNameHtmlOnly' url uo
 			[ Param url
 			, Param "--get-filename"
 			, Param "--no-warnings"
+			, Param "--no-playlist"
 			]
 		(Nothing, Just o, Just e, pid) <- liftIO $ createProcess
 			(proc "youtube-dl" (toCommand opts))
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 816949d8e7..7dfbc9709a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ git-annex (7.20181122) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Make bittorrent special remote work w/o btshowmetainfo installed
     when it was build with torrentparser.
     Thanks, Robert Schütz
+  * When running youtube-dl to get a filename, pass --no-playlist.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:29:27 -0400