joplin-notes/joplin notion extension/Web Development/Extras/yt-dlp.md

yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://ostechnix.com/yt-dlp-tutorial/

• downloading video in specfic format for highest being 480p use yt-dlp -f "best[height<=480]" <URL> Make sure to remove the video from that folder too bcz it wont replace it or yt-dlp -f "best[height<=480][ext=mp4]" <URL> most of time there r video only for higher reolution so need to be combine audio and video which yt-dlp will do using ffmpeg yt-dlp -f "bv*[height<=480][ext=mp4]+ba" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZmHlKpDpUU -o output.mp4 or yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[height<=720][ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=720][ext=mp4]" "https://www.example.com/video" bv+ba means best video+best audio It will download video only stream of sometimes webm format but with ffmpeg it will convert it to mp4 anyway

• getting video name from playlist yt-dlp --get-filename -o "%(title)s" <youtube playlist url>

• download all songs from list of url with embeded thumnail too yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -a urls.txt

• downloading yt video with cookies from browser use this flag --cookies-from-browser firefox:xhn2zoyv.default

• personal cookies one command

yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[height<=720][ext=mp4][vcodec^=avc1]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=720][ext=mp4]" \
--write-subs --write-auto-subs --embed-subs --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata \
-o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQQUuCydpo0"
--cookies-from-browser firefox:iy5sikrq.default-release-1

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for downloading audio yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 playlistURL eg yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --write-subs --write-auto-subs --embed-subs --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lEekRFbRdvpkPx6orDy3HEVBzTHbC75qg" -t sleep

for subtitles download yt-dlp --write-subs --skip-download --sub-lang en -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://youtube.com/watch?v=123" -t sleep

vpn

1. when using vpn add -4 to use ipv4 and will help with faster download.
2. also your ip will be flagged so better use -t sleep

when downloading hige playlist or channels make sure to use yt-dlp --download-archive archive.txt "URL" to avoid downloading same videos again