Command to Download YouTube Video

download YouTube video by command: yt-dlp

yt-dlp is a fork with improvement of youtube-dl. yt-dlp began around 2020.

download at https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

youtube-dl

youtube-dl is a command line utility to download YouTube videos, or twitter, facebook, and most other popular sites.

Download: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

(Note: on Ubuntu linux, it has a package in apt-get, but it's old there and doesn't work.)

After installed, run this in terminal:

# download a youtube video
youtube-dl -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9403-9CptH8

Download Video Audio Separately

youtube-dl --id -k -x -- URL

you get 4 files:

• The audio download
• the video download
• the audio+video merged
• and then the audio extracted again (which is the same as the audio downloaded with just some meta data differences)

Download Just Audio

youtube-dl --id -f NNN -- URL

where NNN is the format number. example: youtube-dl --id -f 140 -- URL

you can find out what format there is by