yt-dlp
yt-dlp is an actively developed fork of the famous Youtube video downloader youtube-dl.
Install¶
For Linux/MacOS.
sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo pacman -S yt-dlp
chocolatey
choco install yt-dlp
winget
winget install yt-dlp.yt-dlp
conda install -c conda-forge yt-dlp
Usage¶
Download videos with subtitles¶
Use the --write-subs option.
yt-dlp --write-subs <url>
Select resolution and format¶
Use -S (sort) to download 1080p AV1 videos first.
yt-dlp -S "res:1080,vcodec:av1" <url>
Download videos from a playlist¶
yt-dlp --yes-playlist --ignore-errors --continue --no-overwrites --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" <playlist_url>
--yes-playlist: Download multiple videos if the URL is a playlist.--ignore-errors: Ignore errors (like geo-restriction of a video or deleted video in a playlist) and continue with rest of the playlist.--continue: Resume if any of the video is partially downloaded in the local file system.--no-overwrites: If a file is already downloaded in local file system, then skip the download.--output "%(title)s.%(ext)s: Specify the download directory with filename and extension extracted from the video."${VID_URL}": URL of the video or playlist.
Download Watch Later videos and mark them as viewed¶
Use the --mark-watched option. You also need to login with --username <username> --password <password>.
yt-dlp --username <username> --password <password> --mark-watched 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL'
Download audio only, as opus format, from a playlist¶
Use --extract-audio --audio-format opus --format 'bestaudio' to extract only the audio information and store as opus file.
yt-dlp --yes-playlist --ignore-errors --continue --no-overwrites --extract-audio --audio-format opus --format 'bestaudio' --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "${URL}"
Download videos from a list of videos¶
Use --batch-file batchlist.txt to capture the list of URLs in a separate lines in a text file and download them in batch.
yt-dlp --ignore-errors --continue --no-overwrites --format 'bestvideo+bestaudio' --batch-file batchlist.txt --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s"