tldr/pages/common/yt-dlp.md

yt-dlp

A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. Download videos from YouTube and other websites. More information: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.

• Download a video or playlist (with the default options from command below):

yt-dlp "{{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0}}"

• Download a video with a defined format. In this case merging the best video format with the best audio format (Default):

yt-dlp --format "{{bv*+ba/b}}" "{{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0}}"

• Extract audio from videos (required ffmpeg or ffprobe):

yt-dlp --extract-audio "{{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0}}"

• Specify audio format of extracted audio (best(default), aac, flac, mp3, m4a, opus, vorbis, wav, alac):

yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format {{mp3}} "{{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0}}"

• Specify audio quality of extracted audio (between 0 (best) and 10 (worst), default = 5):

yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format {{mp3}} --audio-quality {{0}} "{{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0}}"

• Download all playlists of YouTube channel/user keeping each playlist in separate directory:

yt-dlp -o "{{%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s}}" "{{https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists}}"

• Download Udemy course keeping each chapter in separate directory under MyVideos directory in your home:

yt-dlp -u {{user}} -p {{password}} -P "{{~/MyVideos}}" -o "{{%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s}}" "{{https://www.udemy.com/java-tutorial}}"

• Download entire series season keeping each series and each season in separate directory under C:/MyVideos:

yt-dlp -P "{{C:/MyVideos}}" -o "{{%(series)s/%(season_number)s - %(season)s/%(episode_number)s - %(episode)s.%(ext)s}}" "{{https://videomore.ru/kino_v_detalayah/5_sezon/367617}}"