-prefer-ffmpeg - Tells youtube-dl to prefer ffmpeg (as opposed to avconv).youtube-dl -prefer-ffmpeg -extract-audio -audio-format mp3 -audio-quality 0 -embed-thumbnail īreaking down the meaning of the supplied options: You can pass it an URL for a single song or even an entire playlist. Youtube-dl -yes-playlist -ignore-errors -sleep-interval 30 -o '%(playlist)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' '$1'įor this task, I use youtube-dl (w/ a dependency on ffmpeg) with the following options for best results. Youtube-dl -ignore-errors -sleep-interval 30 -i -f bestaudio -extract-audio -audio-format mp3 -audio-quality 0 -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' '$1' Youtube-dl -ignore-errors -f bestaudio -extract-audio -audio-format mp3 -audio-quality 0 -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' '$1' This will also help make sure your IP doesn't get banned. It is really simple and also respects YouTube's flood or bot protection by having a 30 second interval between downloads. If I want to download a video as an mp3 I can do that, or download an entire playlist as mp3 I can use mp3p then the url to the playlist. This should honestly just be included aliases when you install the youtube-dl package in my opinion. This question has been answered a lot, but I figured I would add something really useful. For cleanup you may want to type rm _z-hEyVQDRA.flv to get rid of the flv file that you no longer need.Once this has successfully completed you will now have the mp3 file you were after. So for this example you would type ffmpeg -i _z-hEyVQDRA.flv -acodec libmp3lame MasterOfPuppets.mp3 Next you need to copy that file name and then put it in an ffmpg command like ffmpeg -i. What you should see is a flv file with the same name as the 'v' component of the youtube url you downloaded.Į.g if you downloaded then you should have a file called _z-hEyVQDRA.flv

This will list all the flv files you have. Next have a look to make sure the flv file has downloaded from youtube by typing ls *flv Now install ffmpeg from the official repo. c Resume download of a video which was interrupted beforeįor complete list of switches execute man youtube-dl in terminal. You can also specify other options -b Best quality To download a video execute the following: youtube-dl

This will let you upgrade with sudo youtube-dl -U Or as official readme suggest using curl or wget. Install youtube-dl from the official repository in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

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