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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ From the online help: ``` -x, --extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe) ``` Bear in mind as well that youtube-dl defaults to using avconv so you should consider specifying either avconv or FFmpeg at the commandline. From the online help: ``` --prefer-avconv Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the postprocessors (default) --prefer-ffmpeg Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ #How to download an MP3 track from a YouTube video You can also download the mp3 directly from youtube without converting using ffmpeg `youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 <video URL>` From the online help: ``` -x, --extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe) Bear in mind as well that youtube-dl defaults to using avconv so you should consider specifying either avconv or FFmpeg at the commandline. From the online help: --prefer-avconv Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the postprocessors (default) --prefer-ffmpeg Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the postprocessors Further options for keeping the original video, adjusting the bitrate or quality of the audio and a few others can be seen by looking at youtube -h. ``` -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ #Install YouTube-DL in Ubuntu/Linux Mint and Debian Ubuntu users can download and install latest youtube-dl version from the webupd8 PPA as shown. ``` $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl ``` **Update**: Similarly, instead using any third party PPA, you can use curl or wget command to install latest version of youtube-dl script as shown. ``` $ sudo curl https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl ``` OR ``` sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl ``` After downloading the script, set the executable permission. ``` $ sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl ``` #Update YouTube-DL Youtube-dl itself can be updated to the latest version using the following command. ``` # youtube-dl -U ``` Sample Output ``` Updating to version 2015.09.03 ... Updated youtube-dl. Restart youtube-dl to use the new version. ``` #How to Use YouTube-DL to Download Videos To download a video file, simply run the following command. Where “VIDEO_URL” is the url of the video that you want to download. ``` # youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYvuS9OxdA ``` Sample Output ``` [youtube] iRYvuS9OxdA: Downloading webpage [youtube] iRYvuS9OxdA: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] iRYvuS9OxdA: Extracting video information [youtube] iRYvuS9OxdA: Downloading js player new-en_US-vflCeB3p5 [youtube] iRYvuS9OxdA: Downloading DASH manifest [download] Destination: Amy Macdonald - This Is The Life-iRYvuS9OxdA.mp4 [download] 100% of 10.33MiB in 00:01 ``` To list all available formats of video, use option “–list-formats” with the youtube-dl command. ``` # youtube-dl --list-formats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYvuS9OxdA ``` Sample Output ``` [youtube] vKtwZmhX0lw: Downloading webpage [youtube] vKtwZmhX0lw: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] vKtwZmhX0lw: Extracting video information [youtube] vKtwZmhX0lw: Downloading DASH manifest [youtube] vKtwZmhX0lw: Downloading DASH manifest [info] Available formats for vKtwZmhX0lw: format code extension resolution note 171 webm audio only DASH audio 113k , vorbis@128k (44100Hz), 1.86MiB 140 m4a audio only DASH audio 128k , m4a_dash container, aac @128k (44100Hz), 2.14MiB 141 m4a audio only DASH audio 255k , m4a_dash container, aac @256k (44100Hz), 4.30MiB 278 webm 180x144 DASH video 63k , webm container, vp9, 1fps, video only, 946.76KiB 160 mp4 180x144 DASH video 112k , avc1.4d400c, 15fps, video only, 1.86MiB 242 webm 300x240 DASH video 170k , vp9, 1fps, video only, 2.50MiB 133 mp4 300x240 DASH video 247k , avc1.4d400d, 25fps, video only, 4.11MiB 243 webm 400x320 DASH video 288k , vp9, 1fps, video only, 4.07MiB 13 3gp unknown small 17 3gp 176x144 small , mp4a.40.2, mp4v.20.3 36 3gp 320x240 small , mp4a.40.2, mp4v.20.3 5 flv 400x240 small 43 webm 640x360 medium , vorbis, vp8.0 18 mp4 640x360 medium , mp4a.40.2, avc1.42001E (best) ``` To download a preferred file format, use the option ‘-f’ (video format code). For example, I would like to download mp4 format, So I use format code as ‘18‘ as shown below. ``` # youtube-dl -f 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYvuS9OxdA ``` Sample Output ``` [youtube] iRYvuS9OxdA: Downloading webpage [youtube] iRYvuS9OxdA: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] iRYvuS9OxdA: Extracting video information [youtube] iRYvuS9OxdA: Downloading DASH manifest [download] Amy Macdonald - This Is The Life-iRYvuS9OxdA.mp4 has already been downloaded [download] 100% of 10.33MiB ``` To download a list of video files, create a file and place all the YouTube links that you wish to download. ``` # youtube-dl -a youtube_links.txt ``` Type the following command in a terminal to list all the avialable options. ``` # youtube-dl --help ``` For other distributions, youtube-dl can be downloaded from the youtube-dl download page. http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html