Another vote for yt-dlp
It works with ffmpeg and you can choose the quality you want to download from Youtube. Also its nice if you want to record a livestream as its being broadcast. Its also not limited to just Youtube either, it seems to work on lots of sites.
amazing. Thank you!
hey, I am sorry, is there a gui for yt-dlp with all the options it has in the cli? I found it very confusing to read and understand the whole read.md
I don't know if there is a graphical interface, but do you need to read the whole readme? To me it looks like there are just three relevant flags.
Post-Processing Options:
-x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe)
--audio-format FORMAT Format to convert the audio to when -x is used. (currently supported:
best (default), aac, alac, flac, m4a, mp3, opus, vorbis, wav). You can
specify multiple rules using similar syntax as --remux-video
--audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when converting the audio with -x.
Insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a specific
bitrate like 128K (default 5)
-x --audio-quality=0 --sponsorblock-mark CATS=all --sponsorblock-remove CATS=all
but, I want webm with best quality, so what should my command be?
yt-dlp -f bestaudio video_url will download the highest quality audio format available. You don't want to reencode the audio, that will reduce the quality. On most videos, the best audio will be opus in a webm container.
thank you!!
There are some. I’ve used this one and some other I couldn’t find right now
thank you mate!
Compare with yt-dlp from GitHub. It works from the command line and you can control the quality level you want.
yt-dlp
thank you I will give it a go
thank you I will give it a go
edit: I need a gui which has all the features of the yt-dlp cli but is easier to understand, does this give you any ideas?
Now that you mention it, I wish I had the same!
I suggest Parabolic, it's very feature rich, but I don't think you'll ever find a frontend with all options, as the devs need to catch up, design and also consider which are important and leave others out, so they don't bloat the interface making it impossible to parse. At most you'll get an option to create shortcuts for custom commands (YTDLnis does this on Android).
Anyway, regardless of the application, I think you'd get the same quality, both should try to get the best available by default
I also made a small list some time ago https://codeberg.org/quazar-omega/awesome-yt-dlp if you want to help add more apps.
thank you very much! I was looking for this!
I just used chat gpt to teach me the basics of yt-dlp. Worked great! Can do it with other programs too
I use YouTube links which gives you direct links to the media. It's a userscript so you'll need the ability to run those. Also it doesn't seem to play nicely with premium, but that's easily worked around by letting it run in incognito tabs. Even with the quirks it's way better than any middleman download site.
I also have yt-dlp which is also awesome, but works differently. I do use both depending on what I'm trying to accomplish.. for a single audio or video file YouTube Links is more convenient, for anything more than that yt-dlp is the way to go.
I use jdownloader2. Mostly because I never learned to use yt-dlp.
Well there is clipgrab if you want a GUI downloader.
thank you but imma stick with yt-dlp for a while now, I am looking for a gui with it in the backend now
In android seal is pretty good and on fdroid
140 is always the best quality, except when it has a number tacked on for randomly ordered alternate languages.
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