YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by h43k3r » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 5:39 AM UTC

YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
rg3.github.io

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Post by Kristine1975 » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:03 AM UTC

I've been using it for years now and it's great. Not only for Youtube videos, but also for a lot of other video hosters, up to and including TV stations such as the German ZDF or the French Arte.

To fully use its features you should install ffmpeg though. Youtube-dl will automatically use it if it's in the PATH, and then can download Youtube videos with higher frame rates and resolutions (they store video and audio in separate files, and ffmpeg is used to mux both together). ffmpeg is also required to download from some streaming video hosters.

For me it's essentially:

  youtube-dl -F ''

to get the list of available video and audio formats, followed by

  youtube-dl -f + ''

and then wait for the download to complete. And

  youtube-dl -U

to self-update youtube-dl (because it gets updated just about every day).

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Post by personjerry » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:28 AM UTC

I feel like "ultimate" in the title is misleading.

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Post by danso » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:34 AM UTC

Mostly OT: A friend of mine posted this article from his local newspaper as an example of how slow news is in his town:

http://www.ottumwacourier.com/news/local_news/what-is-a-gif/...

> What is a GIF?

> OTTUMWA — Chances are if you have been on the Internet lately, you have encountered a GIF...In honor of National Teen Tech Week, the Ottumwa Public Library offered a session on GIF making for local teens Saturday afternoon.

OK, not a traditional article topic for a newspaper, but the library described seems to be very much on the ball, teaching teens how to use youtube-dl to download movies:

> He walked each of the teens through the steps required for making GIFs by using movie trailers found on YouTube. He then had the kids copy the web address and use the program youtube-dl to download the video. OPL also provided flash drives for each person so they could access the program at home.

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Post by awqrre » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:35 AM UTC

Kristine1975 wrote: post #2

I've been using it for years now and it's great. Not only for Youtube videos, but also for a lot of other video hosters, up to and including TV stations such as the German ZDF or the French Arte. To fully use its features you should install ffmpeg though. Youtube-dl will automatically use it if it's in the PATH, and then can download Youtube videos with higher frame rates and resolutions (they store video and audio i…

I like this command to extract audio from youtube videos:

    youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3

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Post by jtokoph » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:35 AM UTC

Some of the things that make this the 'ultimate':

- Supports hundreds of services, not just youtube [0]

- Allows you to extract audio in multiple formats

- Download entire playlists (and general batch support)

- Configure video/audio quality

- Extract/build metadata

- Cross platform

[0] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:40 AM UTC

Kristine1975 wrote: post #2

I've been using it for years now and it's great. Not only for Youtube videos, but also for a lot of other video hosters, up to and including TV stations such as the German ZDF or the French Arte. To fully use its features you should install ffmpeg though. Youtube-dl will automatically use it if it's in the PATH, and then can download Youtube videos with higher frame rates and resolutions (they store video and audio i…

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Post by zavi » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:41 AM UTC

jtokoph wrote: post #6

Some of the things that make this the 'ultimate': - Supports hundreds of services, not just youtube [0] - Allows you to extract audio in multiple formats - Download entire playlists (and general batch support) - Configure video/audio quality - Extract/build metadata - Cross platform [0] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

- Illegal

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Post by reacweb » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:41 AM UTC

Kristine1975 wrote: post #2

I've been using it for years now and it's great. Not only for Youtube videos, but also for a lot of other video hosters, up to and including TV stations such as the German ZDF or the French Arte. To fully use its features you should install ffmpeg though. Youtube-dl will automatically use it if it's in the PATH, and then can download Youtube videos with higher frame rates and resolutions (they store video and audio i…

$ youtube-dl -U It looks like you installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball. Please use that to update.

TIL: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:42 AM UTC

personjerry wrote: post #3

I feel like "ultimate" in the title is misleading.

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