'youtube-dl' Notes

Update:

$ sudo -H pip3 install -U youtube-dl

 

List available formats:

$ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL4shpt17Mw
[youtube] aL4shpt17Mw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] aL4shpt17Mw: Downloading video info webpage
[info] Available formats for aL4shpt17Mw:
format code  extension  resolution note
249          webm       audio only tiny   53k , opus @ 50k (48000Hz), 758.66KiB
250          webm       audio only tiny   70k , opus @ 70k (48000Hz), 996.79KiB
140          m4a        audio only tiny  128k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (44100Hz), 2.04MiB
251          webm       audio only tiny  131k , opus @160k (48000Hz), 1.93MiB
278          webm       192x144    144p   27k , webm container, vp9, 25fps, video only, 188.89KiB
160          mp4        192x144    144p   53k , avc1.4d400c, 15fps, video only, 425.64KiB
242          webm       320x240    240p   54k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 311.75KiB
243          webm       480x360    360p   87k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 475.78KiB
133          mp4        320x240    240p  120k , avc1.4d400d, 25fps, video only, 907.37KiB
244          webm       640x480    480p  150k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 814.36KiB
134          mp4        480x360    360p  185k , avc1.4d4015, 25fps, video only, 1.69MiB
135          mp4        640x480    480p  390k , avc1.4d401e, 25fps, video only, 2.67MiB
18           mp4        480x360    360p  158k , avc1.42001E, 25fps, mp4a.40.2@ 96k (44100Hz), 2.55MiB (best)

 

Download one of the available formats listed above by format code:

$ youtube-dl -f 140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL4shpt17Mw

 

Automatically download the best quality audio available in m4a format:

$ youtube-dl -f 'bestaudio[ext=m4a]' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL4shpt17Mw

 

Automatically download the best quality audio available in YouTube's native format (which is likely m4a):

$ youtube-dl -f bestaudio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL4shpt17Mw

 

Download the best quality audio available and convert it to a specific format, mp3 in this example:

$ youtube-dl -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL4shpt17Mw

 

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