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Youtube

Youtube

Download and extract data from youtube videos. yt-dlp is an actively maintained fork of the defunct yt-dl.

Install

LinuxWindows

curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

yt-dlp --update

# libav-tools may be required: Copy all dll/exe files from
# libav-tools/win64/usr/bin to location of yt-dlp.exe.
#
#   http://builds.libav.org/windows/release-gpl
winget install yt-dlp

Extract 320kbps MP3 Audio From Video

yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 320K --keep-video --add-metadata {URL}

Extract FLAC Audio From Video.

yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format flac --audio-quality 0 --add-metadata {URL}

List all formats for a video and select the best ones.

yt-dlp -F {URL}
yt-dlp -f ###+### {URL}

Download only the 1080p video/audio stream from a video.

yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[height<=1080]+bestaudio/best[height<=1080]" {URL}

Download a playlist.

yt-dlp https://youtube.com/playlist?list={PLAYLIST ID} --yes-playlist

Track Downloaded Videos for Archiving.

# This downloads only videos not listed in file and adds any downloaded videos
# to the given file.
yt-dlp --download-archive {FILE}

Azure Media Services

These can be downloaded by forcing a m3u8 stream and downloading. This works for MS streaming videos and other services using Azure Media Service backends.

ctrl + shift + i u2794 network ➔ all
Load the video/stream page.
Locate the manifest(format=...) URI in Chrome Dev Tools.
RMB ➔ copy ➔ copy link address
Use with yt-dlp changing manifest portion of the URI to manifest(format=m3u8-aapl-v3)

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