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Yt-dlp

Improved fork of youtube-dl.

TL;DR

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

# Install it.
python3 -m pip install -U --user yt-dlp

# List all available formats.
yt-dlp -F AK44wAvv2E4

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

Further readings

• GitHub
• youtube-dl