Questions tagged [youtube-dl]
youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites.
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problem with youtube-dl ubuntu 20.04
Suddenly I seem to be having problems downloading videos from youtube using youtube-dl.
I am running ubuntu 20.04.2
I did seem to upgrade youtube-dl using this suggestion:
pip3 install --upgrade ...
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Youtube-dl and OMXWrapper
I'm using Youtube-dl and OMXPlayer to play livestreams from YouTube.
The idea is that the video loops all the time. Meaning that if the livestream is over, that I want to play the YouTube video (of ...
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youtube-dl command line help
ok I want to use youtube-dl to download a video in 1080p mp4 with audio. This video is uploaded in various 360,720,1080 and 2160 with various codec options. The commandline code I am using, works most ...
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How to download an Multiple playlist at once then convert to MP3 track from a YouTube video
I would also like to learn how to extract the video's soundtracks multiple playlist at once as MP3 files-also using only the terminal.
Answers briefly explaining how to use youtube-dl or other similar ...
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How to search for an exact phrase with ytsearch in youtube-dl
A few search results for this similar question came up, but they were either unanswered, or deleted and wouldn't even show up on Internet Archive, so I hope someone here can help!
Sometimes when you ...
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Instructions for installing `youtube-dl` from source code - Ubuntu 20.04
I have recently had some issues installing youtube-dl on Ubuntu 20.04. THIS IS NOT THE SAME QUESTION. Those issues have been resolved, but I am not:
a Python user
comfortable with snap yet
And it ...
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What is the true install procedure for youtube-dl in 20.04?
I am having no luck getting youtube-dl installed on my 20.04 system. Here's what I have tried:
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
RESULT: The command executes OK, but when I try to download anything I ...
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Youtube-dl isn't ignoring unavailable videos
I tried to download a full playlist with youtube-dl but after downloading 31 videos it stopped. I tried -i but it won't ignore or skip.
I tried: youtube-dl -f 136+251 -i "Playlist_Link"
I ...
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Cant use the updated youtube-dl
I have the following youtube-dl version
youtube-dl --version
2020.03.24
I would like to update it with the following command
pip3 install --upgrade youtube-dl
Requirement already up-to-date: ...
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Struggling to run youtube-dl via crontab
I have done a lot of trial and error with a ton of google searching, even tried adding the absolutle path value and doing this as root, I want to download a youtube playlist. It works stand alone as a ...
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youtube-dl discard low resolution videos
So I am running youtube-dl on ubuntu 18.04. I am trying to download some videos from youtube using youtube-dl, I have a list of links, but I want my script to be able to discard the ones which have a ...
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Gydl app : problem when downloading videos
When i try to download a video through the Gydl application the following message appears to me : The download has been unsuccessful. Make sure the URL you've entered is valid. I tried to download a ...
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How can I download a youtube livestream video
How can I download a youtube livestream video. 10 minutes of it for example?
In the terminal I have tried:
youtube-dl --hls-use-mpegts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_XSYlAfJZM
It kinda works, but ...
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youtube-dl code returning 0 after running code
I've been having this problem where whenever I run this block of code:
import os
import youtube_dl
songid = os.system(f'youtube-dl "ytsearch:hi there" --get-id')
print(songid)
It returns ...
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Why does youtube-dl sometimes fail with “ERROR: No video formats found”?
Youtube-dl sometimes works, sometimes doesn't work:
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62uM1trEf6M
[youtube] 62uM1trEf6M: Downloading webpage
ERROR: No video formats found; please report this ...
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turn youtube-dl source code to a command-line on ubuntu 20.04
lately youtube-dl program had some issues embedding thumbnails, a guy on GitHub committed a patch that solved the issue, but the problem is that the team behind youtube-dl didn't merge the patch yet ...
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How To Install Youtube-DL Graphical User Interface On Ubuntu 20.04?
I Did The Following Commands :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install youtube-dlg
Result :
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...
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Why does “youtube-dl” keep downloading high quality videos though I tell it not to do so?
I use the following line, indicating strictly to download the best video format with height less than or equal to 720p (using bestvideo[height<=720,ext=mp4] option), but it still downloads video ...
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Youtube-dl Error
I've been using ubuntu for a while. I reset my windows laptop and reinstalled youtube-dl. Everytime I try and use it, it comes up with the message "Error: Youtube said: This video is unavailable&...
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How to set environment variable for the updated youtube-dl installed from pip3?
I referred to an answer here to install youtube-dl using pip.
Although youtube-dl was installed by default in my Ubuntu 20.04, by apt, but it was outdated and showing errors.
Besides, I used pip3 to ...
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Upload year in youtube-dl output template
This is my current output template:
-o "A:/YouTube/%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
But instead of %(upload_date)s which is formatted as YYYYMMDD I want the folder to ...
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Python’: No such file or directory
Youtube-dl is months out of date in the repos so I installed it using this method
(though I changed the location to usr/bin/youtube-dl as that's what which youtube-dl showed)
but then I get
$ youtube-...
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Can not update youtube-dl [duplicate]
Trying to download an audio from youtube.
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSr9BbhoJQ
[youtube] ILSr9BbhoJQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ILSr9BbhoJQ: ...
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How to download videos from a playlist located on a user site in youtube-dl?
Please help me solve this problem.
Prerequisites:
The institution requires that students can download educational videos.
I need to implement loading a user playlist that contains links to videos ...
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youtube-dl: Select the best format but exclude DASH [duplicate]
DASH formats are not supported by external downloaders like aria2, so I like to avoid them. Merging two formats is ok (so I don't want -f best). What should I use for -f?
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Error when using youtube-dl to downloading videos from a YouTube channel output: /usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory [duplicate]
I am trying to download all videos from a YouTube channel to then convert the videos to a WAV file
Entering the following command:
~$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1Cl-...
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youtube-dl /usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory
In Ubuntu 20.04, we get the following error:
❯ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
❯ ...
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Youtube-dl Question: How can I batch download files (while assigning different titles to output files)?
I have a .txt file with a list of .m3u8 links. I want to batch download all these links (videos) without having to manually enter them one by one.
The problem I'm having is this: youtube-dl is ...
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Creating a script that encodes an audio file and JPG together in an MKV in each subdirectory
I am working on a youtube-dl script that downloads the audio files and thumbnails of a batch list and places it in directory like this:
downloads/[channel_name]/[video_id]/.audiofile
downloads/[...
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how dump all the “TEMPLATE PARAMETERS” in a video stream with youtube-dl
I see that with youtube-dl I can build an output file name using a variable in the name of the file, as indicated in its man page.
But in my case many variables are not available.
How can I dump ...
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Download youtube playlist from youtube-dl. but no sounds [closed]
i am downloaused from youtube playlist used from youtube-dl. no sounds in that mp4 files.
youtube-dl -f 136 --write-auto-sub --convert-subs srt https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyc****
i am ...
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youtube-dl do not working.HTTP error 429: too many requests How can i solve this problem? youtube-dl is up-to date
[youtube] lMttqRuFmL8: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure ...
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youtube-dl output to multiple paths
I have the following bash script to download youtube videos as an mp3 file using youtube-dl:
#!/bin/bash
read -p 'URL: ' url
youtube-dl -f 'bestaudio' --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-...
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Running a command in terminal after youtube-dl has finished
As written in the title, I would like to run a command ONLY after the previous command 'youtube-dl' has finished and closes. I am not running this command on bash just on the ubuntu terminal.
I ...
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python3.8 youtube-dl
I installed python3.8 in ubuntu 18.04 by compiling.
if I run youtube-dl it says cannot find python.
if I cat youtube-dl the shebang line is #!/usr/bin/python3
at terminal prompt python3 does get ...
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youtube-dl won't download mp3
youtube-dl downloads neither videos nor mp3. This is the command I use:
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 <Youtube URL>
The output:
m62iekbg9eo: "token" parameter not in video ...
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How can I edit mpsyt config file?
I tried adjusting the settings in .config/mps-youtube/config, but the config file looks like this:
Do I need a special programm to edit this file?
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How can I remove youtube-dl (NOT installed via snap or apt)?
I installed youtube-dl from
https://yt-dl.org
Since this is not installed from snap or apt-get, how do I get this removed?
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youtube-dl Troubleshooting: ERROR: This video is unavailable [duplicate]
Ubuntu 16.04: Verify latest youtube-dl version:
$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
youtube-dl is already the newest version (2016.02.22-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 137 not ...
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Youtube-DL: Is there an output wildcard for which site the video is being downloaded from?
Youtube-dl supports several sites; in my case I'm using youtube & vimeo. I want to have my '-o' string differentiate between the two when setting an output directory, so that matching users don't ...
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can't find snap apps from terminal [duplicate]
Can't access the snap apps from terminal
using Ubuntu 19.10
$ vlc
Command 'vlc' is available in '/snap/bin/vlc'
The command could not be located because '/snap/bin' is not included in the ...
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How to setup the terminal proxy for ubuntu terminal via v2ray
I have already set up the proxy for Chrome via v2ray and
it is working fine. But I have failed to set up it for terminal for my Ubuntu 18.04. I tried something like:
export http_proxy="socks5://127....
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Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv
I was trying to download from the YouTube
youtube-dl -F 249 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXT1ElMEkW8"
My version youtube-dl --version is 2019.11.28
I went through the link Requested formats are ...
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How to adjust spacing and number formatting in a youtube-dl output template?
I am using youtube-dl. The command that I use is:
youtube-dl LinkOfVideo -o S0%(season_number)s-0%(episode_number)s-%(episode)s.%(ext)s
The output filename of the above command is:
S01-02-Title-ID....
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youtube-dl all the vides under a specified playlist
I am learning SICP following MIT 6.001,
A single course could be downloaded handdily with
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_7mmwpgJHU&list=PLE18841CABEA24090&index=2
How could ...
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Using youtube-dl with cookies.txt file errors
I'm trying to download one particular episode. I've logged in to foodnetwork, saved my cookies.txt file, but get these errors when I run youtube-dl "https://watch.foodnetwork.com/tv-shows/chopped/full-...
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youtube-dl - Where does one locate user-created functions ( )? [duplicate]
I'm looking for clarification about an aspect of this question:
Downloading videos to an external drive with youtube-dl
DannyRe's answer is great except that I may not be the only one wondering ...
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HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests - youtube-dl stopped working
tldr: up-to-date youtube-dl behaves oddly on 1 out of 4 devices, ignoring timeout between requests
I've been using youtube-dl to download videos for a while now. From time to time when something is ...
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Scrape/extract Youtube video information using youtube-dl
I want to scrape information from a YouTube playlist/channel (including Upload Date, Title, URL, Duration, View Count) using youtube-dl without downloading the videos.
There's a very useful example ...
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Certificate problems
Many shell applications are throwing SSL certificate errors. I'm not aware of anything that could have caused this. apt, Google Chrome, Discord all work fine.
Already tried: Problem with certificates
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