yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl's)

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1Tonka_Truck said:
Can someone explain in caveman speak how to download part of a video with yt-dlp? I thought this was possible with yt-dl , but I can't find anything in the yt-dlp readme for it.
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The feature doesn't exist currently. I don't know why either. Apparently "just download the whole video and cut it up afterwards" is their idea of a solution.
 
Slav Power said:
Considering that this forum is filled with niggers who shit themselves at the sight of a command line, or even a CLI selection menu, here's a fork of YouTube-DLG that has been updated to use yt-dlp. It's a window with buttons, you should be able to use it.
github.com

GitHub - oleksis/youtube-dl-gui: A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.

A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython. - GitHub - oleksis/youtube-dl-gui: A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.
github.com github.com
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The virgin youtube-dl-gui
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The chad "right click unzip run" Media Downloader
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CumDumpster said:
I honestly use Youtube-DLP for sites other than Youtube.
It's good at reading Kaltura players (AsianCrush, TheArchive), Crackle (It can defeat that site's Widevine, but not Tubi's scrambling of WB/Sony content? Hm...), Tubi (at least what isn't encrypted/DRMed) and PlutoTV in my experience.
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You can use it for Twitter, Twitch, and hundreds of other sites. And porn. Good for a lot of porn sites too.
 
Slav Power said:
I have the white person certified Batch CLI selection menu. Bodged by myself.
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And I often use the poo-in-streets JDownloader because it's got my settings. Let me tell you, all of these downloaders are horrible abominations. The CLI version isn't much friendlier. I fucking hate, hate, hate, hate Jdownloader but it is still the best one I've found. Also it works on different OSs because it's Java and that means using alien interpretation of an UI with behavior that will drive you insane. I wish GTK and QT had a gay retarded aborted baby interface to replace it but this is what you get, it's currently the best around and I hate it. Enjoy.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
And I often use the poo-in-streets JDownloader because it's got my settings. Let me tell you, all of these downloaders are horrible abominations. The CLI version isn't much friendlier. I fucking hate, hate, hate, hate Jdownloader but it is still the best one I've found. Also it works on different OSs because it's Java and that means using alien interpretation of an UI with behavior that will drive you insane. I wish GTK and QT had a gay retarded aborted baby interface to replace it but this is what you get, it's currently the best around and I hate it. Enjoy.
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Look, I know it's written in Java, but JDownloader is made by Germans not streetshitters. It's a great complement to YT-DLP.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
And I often use the poo-in-streets JDownloader because it's got my settings. Let me tell you, all of these downloaders are horrible abominations. The CLI version isn't much friendlier. I fucking hate, hate, hate, hate Jdownloader but it is still the best one I've found. Also it works on different OSs because it's Java and that means using alien interpretation of an UI with behavior that will drive you insane. I wish GTK and QT had a gay retarded aborted baby interface to replace it but this is what you get, it's currently the best around and I hate it. Enjoy.
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I use JDownloader for downloading shit of off those dodgy DDL sites. It completely bypasses going through them and will only autoclick a captcha if there is one, hassle-free downloading. Oh yeah, it's also good with parsing multiple URLs is you're downloading something like a split archive.
 
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Slav Power said:
Considering that this forum is filled with niggers who shit themselves at the sight of a command line, or even a CLI selection menu, here's a fork of YouTube-DLG that has been updated to use yt-dlp. It's a window with buttons, you should be able to use it.
github.com

GitHub - oleksis/youtube-dl-gui: A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.

A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython. - GitHub - oleksis/youtube-dl-gui: A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.
github.com github.com
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Remember your place slav man
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Fuck. Last time I said it was written by Germans(just had a hunch) I got told it was a pajeet project.
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Then whoever said that is a dumbass who thinks any dodgy looking software is made by pajeets. JDownloader is made by Appwork GmbH, it's a German project. Besides, while JDownloader may seem dodgy, it's a legitimate piece of software that's incredibly useful. Just make sure you download the ad-free version, the one on the main page has bundled adware.

Ad free links: https://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2
 
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Slav Power said:
Then whoever said that is a dumbass who thinks any dodgy looking software is made by pajeets. JDownloader is made by Appwork GmbH, it's a German project. Besides, while JDownloader may seem dodgy, it's a legitimate piece of software that's incredibly useful. Just make sure you download the ad-free version, the one on the main page has bundled adware.

Ad free links: https://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2
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In fairness, it _is_ written in Java. Assuming that any Java application besides a applet from 1996 that makes snowflakes travel down a web page on December 25 is written by Indians is a pretty safe guess.
 
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how would i change the download quality of a download for example some one uploaded all of the transformers beast wars show up scaled to 4k here. How could i download that at that quality using yt-dlp
 
xXEddie.DurellXx said:
how would i change the download quality of a download for example some one uploaded all of the transformers beast wars show up scaled to 4k here. How could i download that at that quality using yt-dlp
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Use this for one video, to see the options that are available:
yt-dlp -F url
Then you take the video and audio ID that you want and add them to the line:
yt-dlp -f videoID+audioID url
 
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xXEddie.DurellXx said:
how would i change the download quality of a download for example some one uploaded all of the transformers beast wars show up scaled to 4k here. How could i download that at that quality using yt-dlp
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By default yt-dlp will download the best video + audio it can. If you want to merge best video and best audio, have ffmpeg installed and yt-dlp will automatically merge them. Otherwise it grabs the single best file with both audio and video which I think tends to be 720 or 1080.
 
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I figured I'd necropost about this here since it'll be of some use to you all as it was to me.
I was trying to download this video and for some reason yt-dlp threw an error back at me saying I need to sign in in order to view/download the video since it's about suicide.
A quick search later lead me to this reddit post on how to get around the block:
There are supposedly two ways that this could be done, but only one has worked for me, so that is the one that I'll be showing here.

This is done by using browser cookies. Here's how to do it:

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser [browser name] [youtube link]

Replace "[browser name]" with the name of your browser, the ones that are supported are, brave, chrome, chromium, edge, firefox, opera, safari, vivaldi.



And obviously replace the "[youtube link]" with the link of the video that you want to download.



You can also add this to your config file so that you don't have to type this in every time. In your config file, add a new line.

--cookies-from-browser edge

Replace edge with the browser of your choice, and you should be golden.
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Pretty neat that it can pull in thumbnails, and SponsorBlock segments as chapter marks
 
Aidan said:
By default yt-dlp will download the best video + audio it can. If you want to merge best video and best audio, have ffmpeg installed and yt-dlp will automatically merge them. Otherwise it grabs the single best file with both audio and video which I think tends to be 720 or 1080.
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Will look into this.

I came back to this thread as I'm looking into setting up YT-dlp properly. Mainly because I want av1 if it's available, and fall back to regular quality if it isn't. I did find information about it, but the amount of people saying "don't use av1 as it's not compatible with as many devices" is frustrating.
 
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