I’m sure some of you already using it like this but if not, this could be useful for you.

It creates a directory with the channel’s name, create sub-directories with the playlist name, it gives them a number and put them in an order, it can continue to download if you have to cancel it midway.

You can modify it to your needs.

Add this to your ~/.bashrc or your favourite shell config.

alias yt='yt-dlp --yes-playlist --no-overwrites --download-archive ~/Downloads/yt-dlp/archive.txt -f "bestvideo[height<=1080]+bestaudio/best[height<=1080]" -o "~/Downloads/yt-dlp/%(uploader)s/%(playlist_title,single_playlist)s/%(playlist_index,00)s - %(title)s - [%(id)s].%(ext)s"'

You can even limit the download speed by adding this parameter: --limit-rate 640K This example is for 5 Mb/s.

  • bradfrank@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    14 hours ago

    I do something very similar. Thanks for sharing cause there’s always something to learn by seeing how someone else solved a problem. I’ll share mine here too if that’s cool:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash

music() {
  case $(uname -s) in
    Darwin)
      yt-dlp --format bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 \
        --postprocessor-args "-strict experimental" "$1" ;;
    Linux)
      yt-dlp --format bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 "$1" ;;
  esac
}

video() {
  yt-dlp \
    --format "bestvideo+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio/best" \
    --merge-output-format mp4 \
    -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$1"
}

while getopts ':hm:v:' flag; do
  case "$flag" in
    h) echo "Usage: youtube [-m(usic) <url> | -v(ideo) <url>]" ; exit 0 ;;
    m) music "$OPTARG" ;;
    v) video "$OPTARG" ;;
    *) echo "Invalid argument." >&2 ; exit 1 ;;
  esac
done
    • muhyb@programming.devOP
      3·
      12 hours ago

      It’s totally cool! I like to see others’ scripts. I agree, there is always something new to learn. I also liked how human readable is this. Thanks for sharing.

    • muhyb@programming.devOP
      3·
      12 hours ago

      Actually I’m quite proud of my version but didn’t know about these at all. If I knew about this prior, I most likely wouldn’t try to build from scratch. Thanks for sharing.

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
        1·
        12 hours ago

        Because other people in the datahoarding community already spent a lot of time collaborating and finding the best config.

    • LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      19 hours ago

      Eh sometimes you just want “download_shit” and “download_shit_but_slow”.

      Remembering that there is a config and where the fuck it is is half the battle for me sometimes.

  • anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca
    3·
    1 day ago

    I have two depending on what I’m grabbing is part of a playlist (where I want to maintain order) or not:

    --download-archive archive.txt --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs -o "%(upload_date)s_%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s" -S res,vcodec:h264,acodec:m4a

    or

    --download-archive archive.txt --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs -o "%(playlist_title)s/%(playlist_index)s_%(upload_date)s_%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s" -S res,vcodec:h264,acodec:m4a

    that --download-archive archive.txt is a godsend for when I rediscover something I’ve already grabbed. I often move the files to better locations after, but archive.txt doesn’t care. Embedding the subtitles, forcing h264/m4a (because more and more things are webp it seems), and renaming the file to the title + youtube ID are what make up the rest.

    • muhyb@programming.devOP
      2·
      1 day ago

      I used to force formats too but sometimes it fails because it cannot find the corresponding format. upload_date seems useful, I should update mine.

      Also, didn’t know it can also download subs. Good to know. Thanks for your version.

      • anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca
        2·
        20 hours ago

        I’ve been lucky I guess – haven’t had a failure with force formats before, I always thought if it couldn’t download the format I wanted it was spinning the conversion over to ffmpeg. I haven’t really paid that close attention to the output. :-)

        • muhyb@programming.devOP
          1·
          12 hours ago

          Well, it’s generally fine for relatively new stuff but now to think I guess I had this problem with the older videos, older than this webm era. Other than that, it’s great to be able to even pick a format. :)