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    Youtube_Dl

    YouTube

    Github Project Youtube-DLP

    To Download video

    youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpbFMhOAwE

    Basic guide for better quality

    Stack Exchange You can download 1080p using youtube-dl, but you need to do a little extra work. Usually it will only download 720p as its max even if you can see 1080p on youtube.com.

    Run with -F to see available formats:

    youtube-dl -F "https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=-pxRXP3w-sQ"

    171 webm audio only DASH audio 115k , audio@128k (44100Hz), 2.59MiB (worst) 140 m4a audio only DASH audio 129k , audio@128k (44100Hz), 3.02MiB 141 m4a audio only DASH audio 255k , audio@256k (44100Hz), 5.99MiB 160 mp4 256x144 DASH video 111k , 12fps, video only, 2.56MiB 247 webm 1280x720 DASH video 1807k , 1fps, video only, 23.48MiB 136 mp4 1280x720 DASH video 2236k , 24fps, video only, 27.73MiB 248 webm 1920x1080 DASH video 3993k , 1fps, video only, 42.04MiB 137 mp4 1920x1080 DASH video 4141k , 24fps, video only, 60.28MiB 43 webm 640x360 18 mp4 640x360 22 mp4 1280x720 (best)

    notice that youtube-dl has labeled the last option 1280x720 as the 'best' quality and that's what it will download by default, but that the line starting with 137 is actually higher quality 1920x1080. YouTube has separated the video and audio streams for the lines labeled DASH so we also need to pick the highest quality audio which in this case is the line starting with 141. Then we run youtube-dl again this time specifying the audio and video:

    youtube-dl -f 137+141 "https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=-pxRXP3w-sQ"

    and it will download the 1080p video and auto-merge it with the highest-quality audio. It should also auto-deleted the separate downloaded parts. This method is a little extra work, but will get you the best results.

    Updating YouTube

    Update Youtube-dl

    youtube-dl -U

    Specific folder ownership // User: defines just user // $USER:$USER has user group also.

    sudo chown -R user: ~/.virtualenvs sudo chown $USER:$USER /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

    Playlist

    If you hit any errors while downloading a big playlist, you can just ignore the errors and move forward with the execution. Use -i to ignore errors

    youtube-dl -i "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMBTl5yXyrGQ68Ny1mXCAaSwbjpcVwm49"

    P.S “VideoGameDunkey’s Greatest hits url.

    Start from certain number.

    youtube-dl --help, contains:

    Video Selection: --playlist-start NUMBER Playlist video to start at (default is 1) --playlist-end NUMBER Playlist video to end at (default is last) --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Playlist video items to download. Specify indices of the videos in the playlist Thus, the option --playlist-start NUMBER should help you to start the playlist in the middle, specified by NUMBER.

    Source StackOverflow

    I have total 135 videos in my playlist. I have successfully downloaded 38 of them. So I manually used this command.

    youtube-dl --playlist-start 39 -u uname@gmail.com -p mypassword "https://www.udemy.com/learn-ethical-hacking-from-scratch/learn/v4/content"

    Its downloading my remaining 97 videos.

    Update

    Use youtube-dlp as it's the latest fork for the updated youtube fixes.
    Youtube-DLP

    Alias

    You can add this as an alias

    alias yt-dl='yt-dlp -f bestvideo+bestaudio'

    Usage would be

    yt-dl https://www.youtube.com/

    yt-dlp installation

    Private videos

    If you want to download private signed in videos from a different source website behind a paywall.

    First inspect the iFrame or embedded video with a right click, inspect - This Frame in Firefox or you choice of browser. Copy the unique web url to work with the command line tool to download it appropriately.

    If it helps anyone else, this means it will look like this:

    youtube-dl --referer https://your-original-website.tld "https://player.vimeo.com/video/"

    If you need to log into the original site to watch the video first, then use an extension to export your Firefox cookie to a text file, then tell youtube-dl to use it:

    `youtube-dl --cookies path/to/cookie.txt --referer https://your-original-website.tld https://player.vimeo.com/video/<id>`

    reddit | downloading vimeo vids

    Alfred Automation

    Use Snippets feature to add one

    Auto expansion : allowedKeyword =:yd `
    Type: Plain Text snippet - match destination

    Snippet

    yt-dl "{clipboard}"

    yt-dl has been mapped to yt-dlp -f bestvideo+bestaudio in my bash alias