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--- youtube-dl [2020/10/26 18:32] – ↷ Links adapted because of a move operation 114.119.138.179
+++ youtube-dl [2024/12/11 19:18] (current) – [Video] auto merging streams rjt
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 ====== Youtube-dl ======
-Great tool for downloading from [[youtube]].
+Great tool for downloading from [[youtube]], and elsewhere.
+It's [[github>ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29965|currently unmaintained]], so I've switched to a fork called [[yt-dlp]] to get around slow speeds downloading from Youtube.
 ===== Useful Arguments =====
 ^ ''-F'' | List available formats for the video. |
-^ ''-f\_[code]'' | Format, I usually go with ''best''. |
+^ ''-f\_[code]'' | Format, use code from ''-F'' list. Default is highest quality. |
 ^ ''-i'' | Ignore errors. Sometimes comes in handy when trivial errors are holding things up. |
 ^ ''-o'' | Lets you set a template to format the filenames of the output. |
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 ===== Configuration =====
-You can put any argument in the file ''~/.config/youtube-dl/config'', and it will add the many time it runs.
+You can put any argument in the file ''~/.config/youtube-dl/config'', and it will add them any time it runs.
 So it's an easy way to specify a common download location and naming template, for example.
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 ==== Video ====
 YTDL will automatically grab the best-quality version, so often ''youtube-dl [url]'' is sufficient.
+If you want to choose which format with ''-f'' it likely will be ''video only'', so you have to pick an audio  stream too, you can grab them both and have them merged by using a [;us symbol, eg: ''ytdlp -f 123+456 [youtube id]''
 ==== Getting Audio from Videos ====
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   * https://askubuntu.com/questions/856911/using-youtube-dl-to-download-entire-youtube-channel
+===== GUI =====
+Been researching making or installing a web interface to combine with a YTDL setup on [[qnap_ts-231p|my NAS]]. Here're some links:
+  * [[https://oleksis.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/|yt-dlg]] - [[Python]].
+  * [[github>Rudloff/alltube]] - Seems overly complicated?
+  * https://old.reddit.com/r/qnap/comments/8hu6me/how_to_download_youtube_using_qnap/
+  * https://old.reddit.com/r/qnap/comments/lipv1p/help_with_youtubedl_installation/
+  * https://old.reddit.com/r/qnap/comments/8hu6me/how_to_download_youtube_using_qnap/
+  * https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=134916
+  * [[https://tartube.sourceforge.io/|Tartube]]
 ===== Links =====
   * https://youtube-dl.org/
+  * [[github>ytdl-org/youtube-dl]]
+  * [[yt-dlp]] - Fork with more features, and project activity.
+{{tag>software cli guide open-source youtube}}