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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How to download videos that have subtitles using youtube-dl "yt-dlp"?
I have the following command which tries to download videos that only have subtitles and ignore everything else. However, this command doesn't filter it out and downloads them anyway.
Any idea why?
yt-...
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Downloading and merging mp3 in time-range from Youtube using youtube-dl and ffmpeg
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I am trying to download best quality mp3 from Youtube videos in specified time range (first 30 seconds, 20-55 seconds etc), and then merge them to create one output file. Tools being used ...
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how pipe the 'get_url' of youtube-dl to ffmpeg stdin
I'm not getting pass the output from the first process with Youtube-dl through pipe to stdin of ffmpeg. It is as if the Youtube-dl force the execution of process after pipe instead wait for his own ...
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Save a local file URL .m3u8 stream using youtube-dl
I have a local .m3u8 file containing stream information. I would like to use youtube-dl or a fork to download the stream.
When I pass the local file to youtube-dl it gives the error that it is ...
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Youtube-dl acting up in Kubuntu 18.04 "can't download"
first thing I'd like to state that I didn't have any issues using youtube-dl in Windows 10. But not in Kubuntu 18.04, It doesn't work
the command:
$ sudo youtube-dl 'IllgR6kOieI' --external-downloader ...
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Youtube-dl not downloading requested filesize
So I currently have "youtube-dl.exe" -l PL6NdkXsPL07IOu1AZ2Y2lGNYfjDStyT6O -f "[filesize<25M]" --audio-format "mp3" --ffmpeg-location "C:\Users\%Username%\...
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Drag & drop URL from address bar into folder = automagically convert + download
How would I go about finding out how to drag & drop shortcut URL from browser address bar into folder to auto download / convert to audio mp3?
After dragging into folder, the output file would ...
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Is downloading a media file twice and comparing their hash values enough to verify their integrity?
I often use youtube-dl to download videos. As far as I know, there is no data integrity verfication built in to youtube-dl, so what I do to verify that a video isn't corrupted in some way after ...
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Download specific resolution with youtube-dl
How to download video with specific video resolution, lets say Full HD with best audio and merge them together. I need a one line command in which you just can change the video resolution if choose to....
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Regex in youtube-dl arguments
I want to extract two paths from the youtube-dl arguments, the output template and ffmpeg location
-o (.*%\(ext\)s).* --ffmpeg-location (.*)
With the regex above I am able to capture both the output ...
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Difference between ffmpeg versions
I am using ffmpeg and ffprobe to do video/audio conversions when using youtube-dl in a GUI interface. The current ffmpeg version command line tool on windows is very large, over 100MB.
I want to ...
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How to download a portion of a YouTube video
I often come across YouTube videos that I need to crop parts from, but these videos can be long and downloading the entire video just to process a small part of them would take too long and be very ...
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Using `-to` instead of `-t` when using YouTube link as input
This answer shows how to get a portion of a YouTube video by using URLs as input. The command works mostly fine, but I want to avoid using -t as I need to cut between specific timestamps and I'd ...
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Using read to capture multiple variables from a command's output
I have a youtube-dl command that when run outputs two new lines, and I'm trying to capture each of those to variables.
Here is what I have so far, but for some reason I can't understand, it only ...
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Youtube-dl - different config file for video & audio?
Is it possible to pass a specific config file to youtube-dl without writing all
arguments in command line?
Right now I'm using AHK to input in PowerShell for video
youtube-dl.exe -o '%(playlist_index)...
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