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Youtube-DL

TL;DR

# limit the bandwidth
youtube-dl --format 313 --limit-rate 2M $URL

# list all available formats
youtube-dl --list-formats ${URL}

# download bestvideo and bestaudio formats and merge them in a single file
youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio $URL

# download formats separately and do not merge them
youtube-dl -f bestvideo,bestaudio $URL

# download the best all-around formats
youtube-dl -f best $URL

# also download thumbnails and other info (in separate files)
youtube-dl --write-description --write-info-json --write-annotations --write-sub --write-thumbnail $URL

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

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.

Further readings