yt-dlp

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project.^[1]

Project Homepage [EN]

yt-dlp [EN] @ Fedora Package
yt-dlp [EN] @ Homebrew Formula

Documentation

man 1 'yt-dlp' [EN]

Syntax

yt-dlp [PARAMETER ...] URL [URL ...]

Parameters

--audio-format FORMAT: Specify audio format to convert the audio to when -x is used. Currently supported formats are: best (default) or one of aac, flac, mp3, m4a, opus, vorbis, wav, alac.
-c, --continue: Resume partially downloaded files/fragments (default).
--cache-dir DIR: Location in the filesystem where yt-dlp can store some downloaded information (such as client ids and signatures) permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/yt-dlp or ~/.cache/yt-dlp.
-k, --keep-video: Keep the intermediate video file on disk after post-processing.

-o TEMPLATE, --output TEMPLATE: Output filename TEMPLATE.
-q, --quiet: Activate quiet mode. If used with -–verbose, print the log to stderr.
--restrict-filenames: Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid & and spaces in filenames.
--rm-cache-dir: Delete all filesystem cache files.
-x, --extract-audio: Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg).

Examples

Save a music video as a mp3 file

[[ -d "${path}" ]] || mkdir --parents "${path}"

yt-dlp \
  --audio-format 'mp3' \
  --cache-dir "${HOME}/tmp" \
  --extract-audio \
  --output "${path}/%(title)s.%(ext)s" \
  --quiet \
  --restrict-filenames \
  --rm-cache-dir \
  'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA'

References

↑ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

[1] ttps://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

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