We go into depth into one of the most powerful command line programs to delve into the treasure chest of cat video’s we call youtube. We explore Youtube-Dl, its capabilities and the vast combination of switches and parameters you can use to turn Youtube (and other video sites) into your personal b*tch.

Shownotes.

What is youtube-dl

How to get it

Youtube-dl

Homebrew

List of supported sites

Command line overview 

Youtube Download 

youtube-dl

Youtube Download audio only 

youtube-dl —extract-audio —audio-format mp3

Youtube Download search results (50)

youtube-dl ytsearch:”ted talks computers” 

–playlist-end 20 -R 50 

Youtube Download channel or topic (50)

Youtube-dl —playlist-end 50 -R 50

Youtube Download ‘watch later que’

youtube-dl -u username -p password :ytwatchlater

Youtube Download audio only 

youtube-dl —extract-audio —audio-format mp3

Youtube Download search results (50)

youtube-dl ytsearch:”ted talks computers”

–playlist-end 20 -R 50

Youtube Download channel or topic (50)

Youtube-dl —playlist-end 50 -R 50

Youtube Download ‘watch later que’

youtube-dl -u username -p password :ytwatchlater

Subscribe : add

add “playlist-end 1 -R 50”

Make pretty : add

“ -o ”location/file/%(title)s.%ext)s”

Extract only the audio of a channel.

—extract-audio —format-mp3  “playlist-end 1 -R 50”