Questions tagged [youtube-dl]
A free command-line downloader primarily for YouTube videos, available on many platforms.
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To cut and download part of video from vk.com
I try to cut and download part of an online video from vk.com, using yt-dlp and ffmpeg, in one step.
I tried
ffmpeg $(yt-dlp -g 'https://vk.com/video302700968_456241462' | sed 's/^/-ss 05:00 -i /') -...
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How long the URL of a YouTube video last before expiring?
On executing youtube-dl -g <youtube_link> we get the urls for the video and the audio, we can play those urls with vlc for example.
But for how long those urls are valid?, they're of the form:
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Youtube playlist to m4b audiobook
Currently I download youtube playlists as audio -f 140, transfer the files via itunes to my iphone, then add a common artist/ablum metadata in itunes move it from music to audiobooks.
However, this ...
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yt-dlp turns off my Telegram and Discord when I use --download-sections
I'm getting this problem on a macOS Monterey.
When I run yt-dlp --download-sections, it takes a few seconds to reach the frame downloading part, but when it does get there, my Discord gets stuck on ...
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No audio for WEBM format
I'm trying to download a video because I don't like the forced HDR by YouTube. I got the following output when entering this command yt-dlp -F "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19h1iUcC3QU"
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How to download sections from youtube videos from command line with bad internet
I want to download certain sections from a youtube stream, currently I'm using this command to get the job done:
yt-dlp --download-sections "*30:15-1:40:25" $LINK
the problem is that ...
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yt-dlp playlist re-stream FFMPEG constantly dropping
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL63F0C78739B09958" --exec "ffmpeg -i {} -vcodec libx264 -c:a aac -b:a 160k -crf 23 -preset fast -f flv rtmp://127.0.0.1:1935/live/mytv10&...
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Burn subtitle in youtube video while downloading
How to burn a YouTube video with a subtitle while downloading (simultaneously) using yt-dlp and ffmpeg. Can you help me with a batch file or command line syntax?
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Why does piping yt-dlp tp FFmpeg fail with --download-sections?
I'm trying to download a clip of a video (including audio) in a streaming manner (i.e. with no temporary files) in a given format.
This works fine:
yt-dlp --ignore-config --no-config-locations -f 22 -...
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How to make youtube-dl (yt-dlp) generate subtitles properly and not duplicate the text?
I'm using yt-dlp to download some videos, and I've told it to embed the subtitles. This seems to work, except it's generating subtitles in the most horrible way by duplicating the text.
For example, ...
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youtube-dl removed but still there
There's a ghost in the shell.
I tried to remove youtube-dl through brew uninstall youtube-dl:
-bash: brew: command not found
cool, that means I have not even installed brew.
I then checked if I could ...
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Prevent the youtube-dl process fork when downloading metadata for a video in a playlist
Storing the metadata for a video using in a file using youtube-dl can be done in bash by calling
youtube-dl -j https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=${video_id} > metadata.json
However, when the video ...
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youtube-dl not downloading any "age restricted" video
Youtube has started "age restricting" many videos, and I can't download them with youtube-dl
for example
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeZ3k2ywQ6Y
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user@droplet~/user# ...
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How do you download multiple files/videos, simultaneously, on a basic digitalocean droplet/VPS?
How do you download multiple files/videos, simultaneously, on a basic digitalocean droplet?
Let's say I create a basic digitalocean droplet/VPS, that runs Ubuntu
I start the console
I do apt install ...
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Get URL of YouTube live stream
How to find out which video ID (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID) corresponds to current live stream available at URL like this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/CHANNEL_ID/live ?
The software ...
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