yt-dlp youtube download cheatsheet ffmpeg

tips & tricks
Post Reply
dev
Site Admin
Posts: 60
Joined: 09 Mar 2021, 17:52

yt-dlp youtube download cheatsheet ffmpeg

Post by dev »

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp -U updates yt-dlp
yt-dlp -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ list the available downloads ( -F short, --list-formats long )
yt-dlp -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ --merge-output-format mp4 avi, flv, mkv, mov, mp4, webm
yt-dlp --format "bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4]" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ audio only in mp3 format
yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ specify audio format [aac, alac, flac, m4a, mp3, opus, vorbis, wav] and audio quality of extracted audio (from 0 (best) and 10 (worst), default = 5)
yt-dlp -a url.txt list all urls in url.txt file
$ yt-dlp -o 'Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ specify file output name
yt-dlp --list-subs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwGFA74yyDo list-subs
yt-dlp --skip-download --write-subs --sub-langs en --sub-format srt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwGFA74yyDo write-subs
yt-dlp --skip-download --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --sub-format txt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwGFA74yyDo
write-auto-subs
Post Reply