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Youtube-DL

Not deprecated, but surpassed many times by its improved fork, yt-dlp.

TL;DR

# Limit the bandwidth.
youtube-dl --format 313 --limit-rate 2M video-url

# List all available formats.
youtube-dl --list-formats video-url

# Download the 'bestvideo' and 'bestaudio' formats and merge them in a single
# file.
youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio video-url

# Download formats separately and do not merge them.
youtube-dl -f bestvideo,bestaudio video-url

# Download the best all-around formats.
youtube-dl -f best video-url

# Download the first format in a list.
youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best video-url

# Filter formats by conditions.
youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio[height>=720]/best[filesize>100M] video-url

# Also download thumbnails and other info (in separate files).
youtube-dl --write-description --write-info-json --write-annotations \
  --write-sub --write-thumbnail video-url

# Show what name would the resulting file have
youtube-dl --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' video-url
youtube-dl --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' video-url --restrict-filenames

# Sequentially download a list of videos.
parallel --jobs 1 --retries 10 \
  'youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={}"' \
  ::: ${CODES[@]}

# Download all videos in a YouTube channel.
youtube-dl -f "bestvideo+bestaudio/best" -ciw \
  -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -v https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime/videos

# Download YouTube playlist videos in a separate directory.
# Index by video order in the playlist.
youtube-dl -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' playlist-url

# Download an entire series season.
# Keep each series and each season in separate directories.
youtube-dl \
  -o "%(series)s/%(season_number)s %(season)s/%(episode_number)s %(episode)s.%(ext)s" \
  serie-url

Installation

The preferred method is to just download it from the project:

curl --location https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl --remote-name
chown a+x youtube-dl
python3 youtube-dl …

Alternatively, most package managers will have the package available.

To be able to merge multiple formats into one, you will also need to install ffmpeg or avconv.

Further readings

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