Requires youtube-dl and ffmpeg
The ultimate collection of scripts for YouTube-DL
Install youtube-dl and ffmpeg
Create a folder where you want your videos downloaded in a drive where you have Gigabytes/Terabytes of space available
This repository got rid of this weirdness. Just add a URL to the source file either in channels, playlists or single videos and run the scripts.
--format "(bestvideo[vcodec=av01][height>=4320][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=4320][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=4320][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=av01][height>=4320]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=4320]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=4320]/bestvideo[height>=4320]/bestvideo[vcodec=av01][height>=2880][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=2880][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=2880][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=av01][height>=2880]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=2880]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=2880]/bestvideo[height>=2880]/bestvideo[vcodec=av01][height>=2160][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=2160][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=2160][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=av01][height>=2160]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=2160]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=2160]/bestvideo[height>=2160]/bestvideo[vcodec=av01][height>=1440][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=1440][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=1440][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=av01][height>=1440]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=1440]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=1440]/bestvideo[height>=1440]/bestvideo[vcodec=av01][height>=1080][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=1080][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=1080][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=av01][height>=1080]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=1080]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=1080]/bestvideo[height>=1080]/bestvideo[vcodec=av01][height>=720][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=720][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=720][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=av01][height>=720]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=720]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=720]/bestvideo[height>=720]/bestvideo)+(bestaudio[acodec=opus]/bestaudio)/best" : Courtesy of Veloldo, tell youtube-dl to download the best quality available prioritizing the most compressed/recent codecs
--verbose : Tell youtube-dl to print various debugging information
--force-ipv4 : Tell youtube-dl to use IPv4, needed because lots of hosting and VPNs providers don't support IPv6.
--ignore-errors : Tell youtube-dl to continue on download errors (for example to skip unavailable videos in a playlist)
--no-continue : Tell youtube-dl not to resume partially downloaded files and to restart from the beginning (Mainly to avoid corruption)
--no-overwrites : Tell youtube-dl not to overwrite existing files (Useful when metadata has already been downloaded)
--download-archive archive.log : Tell youtube-dl to write every video that has been downloaded in archive.log to automatically skip them next time the script is started
--add-metadata : Tell youtube-dl to write metadata to the video files
--write-description : Tell youtube-dl to write video description to a .description file
--write-info-json : Tell youtube-dl to write video metadata to a .info.json file
--write-annotations : Tell youtube-dl to write video annotations to a .annotations.xml file
--write-thumbnail : Tell youtube-dl to write thumbnail image to disk
--embed-thumbnail : Tell youtube-dl to embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art (only useful when downloading audio-only content like podcast)
--all-subs : Tell youtube-dl to download all the available subtitles of the video
--sub-format "srt" : Tell youtube-dl to prioritize .srt subtitles
--embed-subs : Tell youtube-dl to embed subtitles in the video