yt-dlp
General
downloads youtube media streams to video,audio,…
Installation
$ apt install yt-dlp
Back in the days, it was called
youtube-dl, so if you running a very old system and still fetchs packages from an old mirror, it could be that you have to search for this.
Sample
$ yt-dlp -F "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8JwqdMd3Ws"
[youtube] d8JwqdMd3Ws: Downloading webpage
[youtube] d8JwqdMd3Ws: Downloading video info webpage
[info] Available formats for d8JwqdMd3Ws:
format code extension resolution note
249 webm audio only DASH audio 47k , opus @ 50k, 594.70KiB
250 webm audio only DASH audio 59k , opus @ 70k, 742.87KiB
171 webm audio only DASH audio 94k , vorbis@128k, 1.16MiB
251 webm audio only DASH audio 106k , opus @160k, 1.29MiB
140 m4a audio only DASH audio 146k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k, 1.67MiB
278 webm 192x144 144p 72k , webm container, vp9, 30fps, video only, 901.05KiB
160 mp4 192x144 144p 85k , avc1.4d400c, 30fps, video only, 824.10KiB
242 webm 320x240 240p 114k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 1.26MiB
133 mp4 320x240 240p 119k , avc1.4d400d, 30fps, video only, 1.11MiB
243 webm 480x360 360p 260k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 2.87MiB
134 mp4 480x360 360p 476k , avc1.4d401e, 30fps, video only, 4.37MiB
244 webm 640x480 480p 519k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 5.82MiB
135 mp4 640x480 480p 878k , avc1.4d401e, 30fps, video only, 9.31MiB
17 3gp 176x144 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2@ 24k, 1.02MiB
36 3gp 320x240 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2, 3.07MiB
18 mp4 480x360 medium , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k, 8.35MiB (best)
$ yt-dlp -f 140 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8JwqdMd3Ws"
[youtube] d8JwqdMd3Ws: Downloading webpage
[youtube] d8JwqdMd3Ws: Downloading video info webpage
[download] Destination: Geburtstagsständchen von den Wise Guys-d8JwqdMd3Ws.m4a
[download] 100% of 1.67MiB in 00:04
[ffmpeg] Correcting container in "Geburtstagsständchen von den Wise Guys-d8JwqdMd3Ws.m4a"
$ ffmpeg -i Q3L10FmE_gc.m4a -vn -ab 320k -ar 44100 -y Q3L10Fme_gc.mp3