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Honest question: why would you want to download a video from YouTube? The main use case I can think of is you want to watch videos offline on a mobile device but don't want to pay for a YouTube Red subscription.
Sometimes one may be in area of good connectivity, but often not.
This is commonplace in countries with limited internet access.
What a funny coincidence - I just discovered and used this a few hours ago. I wanted to rip some YT audio from (mostly) old records that I have that are not on Spotify etc. I looked at some browser plugins but I wasn't really impressed. This, on the other hand, was a great discovery. Really configurable and well documented. Assuming you have `ffmpeg` installed just run: `youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3…
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For 9, I would just go with youtube-dl -f 140 (or 141 in some cases). No reason for lossy->lossy conversion.
Hmm I don't see any documentation for that format code. I chose mp3 because it's the only format my ipod accepts. The formats it downloads by default won't play, even if they might be higher quality.
Note that it is against YouTube's ToS to download videos: https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms "You may access Content for your information and personal use solely as intended through the provided functionality of the Service and as permitted under these Terms of Service. You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content."
Initial commit is from 2008. I think title should be updated to reflect the initial year, since this is not a new project. I've been personally using this for many years.
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>SEO rigging? That's mostly having links from other reputable sources. If this software is good, other good sites will link to it rising it up in the search results You have tell Google what your site is about, otherwise it's pretty hopeless; you're pretty much well asking Google to guess what terms the site should rank for. The five-minute-basics this site needs are to create a meaningful title tag (getting "YouTube…
> The problem is so bad, I know lots of people - myself > included - who hunt for projects first on Github, and > Google a distant second. Seriously? I search with `site:github.com` all the time.
This is a great project. I have been using it for more than 4 years and it has never disappointed me ever. It picks up from the interrupted download, can convert in any format you prefer and get only audio out if you will. Great work guys! Thanks for creating such an awesome piece of software.
i love youtube-dl. i've been interested in doing the same with soundcloud, but i have no idea how to go about learning how their streaming works. any advice for where to start?
I actually have a small node program that downloads your entire Favorites collection by just providing your username as a command line argument if you or anyone's interested
Nostalgia time. Even though I'm not actively involved anymore, youtube-dl has been the first OSS project I seriously contributed to, and strangers still thank me at conferences for it. I owe a lot to the maintainers (hey, phihag!) for tolerating and trusting a much younger version of me :) I still remember the emotion of getting this merged: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/pull/342 It's also one of the most impress…
Honest question: why would you want to download a video from YouTube? The main use case I can think of is you want to watch videos offline on a mobile device but don't want to pay for a YouTube Red subscription.
youtube-dl is also helpful for other video serivces. For example, twitch.tv doesn't have as good of a CDN on my country as youtube does so youtube-dl is sometimes the only way for me to watch a twitch.tv VOD at decent quality (even in those days when I can watch youtube videos just fine).