So long, honestly would have preferred a shorter answer. I composited yours and someone else. Notice the --help says youtube-dl --help Usage: youtube-dl [options] url [url Retrying attempt 1 of To download multiple files from YouTube Go to your desktop and make a text document called list or any other name. Ahmed Ismail Ahmed Ismail 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. The default is already to continue. See the youtube-dl FAQ for more details. David Foerster 34k 54 54 gold badges 85 85 silver badges bronze badges.
Shantanu Bedajna Shantanu Bedajna 1 1 gold badge 12 12 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. This is not the most straightforward at all. There is now I don't know how long it's been there a --batch-file script which takes one line of a text file as a url — MrMesees.
MrMesees MrMesees 1 1 silver badge 8 8 bronze badges. Then use command below. Paddy Landau 4, 4 4 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 55 55 bronze badges. This is useful for downloading a lot of videos from the same channel. You can use an unlisted playlist to not make it public — qwr. Xui Xui 31 2 2 bronze badges. Kulfy Stephen Rauch 1, 6 6 gold badges 12 12 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Topic is still relevant, so: Get your YouTube link.
Remove the first video parameter starting with? Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Peter Tseng Peter Tseng Worked for me. I had to install also ffmpeg. As linux debian user had to exec "apt-get install ffmpeg" Just a claritication. On the 2nd command, the value of paramenter--format, means resolution and should be chosen from the previous list — Val Martinez.
This is awesome! I wonder if this can be automated to find the "best"? There is no. That's awesome but you did not mention that after "paste URL "m3u8"" you have to type name for the file, for example "video" then click on icon of hand next to "quality" and only after that you can select "one on one" and "download".
As for the rest, works good! Thanks — Developer. If you only see. Vishal 4 4 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Very nice.
Result was not very good for my videos if I concatenated like that though. There were pretty annoying visual artefacts at junctions when I watched with VLC.
The best result I got with ffmpeg "concat protocol". It was not perfect either, as VLC had some trouble moving backward and forward in big steps. Micheal Espinola Micheal Espinola 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. The resulting separate video and audio files can be merged with ffmpeg : ffmpeg -i video.
Vadzim Vadzim Ho yeah! Like a charm! Here's more of what is happening from my GIST - gist. Skowronek Skowronek 10 10 bronze badges. IvanM IvanM 2, 1 1 gold badge 23 23 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges.
Connor Connor 35 1 1 bronze badge. I also uploaded it to Gitlab 's snippets. You can find it here. This will download a video from slightly differences can arise because of keyframes. It can also download whole videos, just omit the time interval in that case. To add on to hyperpallium answer: OP did not mention the video he was downloading had to be from YouTube.
With youtube-dl version The MKV file I ended up with was "" in "total duration", but it ended after 34 seconds. Full cmd. Optional: rename the [file]. This could cause your arguments to be applied more than once resulting in unexpected behaviours, such as cutting your video shorter than it should.
I would make a comment to the original answers but I don't have enough reputation for that. The goal is that there is only one post process for --postprocessor-args in the command line, so that it is only applied once. For example, my config file specifies the --ffmpeg-location , --audio-format , and --audio-quality.
So that in the command line, I would only use -x. Of course, this would work with any post process in the command line, so long as there is only one, and that the rest is hidden in the config file.
Someone made a batch script for Windows that downloads the file and extracts the desired portion:. Here a clean batch script that will do the job nicely, it should be easy to port this to linux as well. Sign up to join this community.
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Asked 6 years, 2 months ago. Active 1 month ago. Viewed k times. I am using Ubuntu, and the youtube-dl command is working absolutely fine. Is there any way to do that? Improve this question. AdminBee Related: askubuntu. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.
Improve this answer. Johnnie Johnnie 1, 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. So essentially, you still have to download the whole video and crop it yourself — Antony. It automatically chooses the best video and audio quality. Download the subtitles: Tell Youtube-dl to download subtitles with --write-sub. Add --all-subs to download all subtitles, or use --sub-lang to specify a subtitle language. Use --list-subs to list all available subtitles. Get additional video information: Use --write-description to download the description.
Use --write-info-json to download the video metadata. Use --write-annotations to download the annotations. Use --write-thumbnail to download the thumbnail image. To change this, use --playlist-reverse or --playlist-random. Use --playlist-start number and --playlist-end number to download only that excerpt of the playlist.
With the -F option, it will not download the video, so you don't need to additionally use --skip-download. Sometimes, the best quality is obtained by merging a video format with an audio-only format. Sometimes, there are even only video-only formats and audio-only formats. In that case, you can merge.
Specifying the audio first and then the video will result in an error. See the Youtube-dl documentation for a full reference. On Linux, you can open the documentation with man youtube-dl. Update Youtube-dl if it suddenly stops working. YouTube regularly changes their way of storing videos, and the old youtube-dl script stops working. Update with: youtube-dl -U Depending on how you installed Youtube-dl, you may need to use sudo youtube-dl -U instead on Linux because you don't have the necessary permissions otherwise.
Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. You can see all sites it can download from with: youtube-dl --list-extractors.
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