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    Related question on our sister site: How to select video quality from youtube-dl?
    – gronostaj
    Commented Aug 16, 2021 at 18:42
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    You might be looking for something like youtube-dl -f 'best[height<=1080]'.
    – harrymc
    Commented Aug 16, 2021 at 19:31
  • The double quotes...
    – IGRACH
    Commented Aug 16, 2021 at 20:21
  • Yes but the problem is that there is a 1920x1080 video and I'm unable to download it with this method. It defaults to 1280x720.
    – IGRACH
    Commented Aug 16, 2021 at 20:58
  • "mp4[height=1080]+bestaudio" did it.
    – IGRACH
    Commented Aug 16, 2021 at 21:01