Youtube Extractor

Download and extract data from youtube videos.

Install Utilities (linux).

curl http://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
apt install lame libav-tools

Windows requires manual installation of the binary and libav tools:

youtube-dl binary
libav-tools <http://builds.libav.org/windows/release-gpl/>

Copy all .dll and .exe from libav-tools/win64/usr/bin to the location of youtube-dl.exe.

Snippets

Extract 320kbps MP3 Audio From Video.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 320K --keep-video --add-metadata {URL}

Extract FLAC Audio From Video.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format flac --audio-quality 0 --add-metadata {URL}

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

youtube-dl -F {URL}
youtube-dl -f ###+### {URL}

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

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

Download a playlist.

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

Track Downloaded Videos for Archiving.

youtube-dl --download-archive {FILE}

Note

Download only videos not listed in file and adds any downloaded videos to the given file.

Azure Media Services

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

ctrl + shift + i › network › all
Load the video/stream page
Locate the manifest(format=…) URI in Chrome Dev Tools
{RMB} › copy › copy linke address
Use with youtube-dl, changing manifest portion of the URI to manifest(format=m3u8-aapl-v3)

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