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Just wanted to share my yt-dlp alias (programming.dev)

submitted 2 days ago by muhyb@programming.dev to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml

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I'm sure some of you already using it like this but if not, this could be useful for you.

It creates a directory with the channel's name, create sub-directories with the playlist name, it gives them a number and put them in an order, it can continue to download if you have to cancel it midway.

You can modify it to your needs.

Add this to your ~/.bashrc or your favourite shell config.

alias yt='yt-dlp --yes-playlist --no-overwrites --download-archive ~/Downloads/yt-dlp/archive.txt -f "bestvideo[height<=1080]+bestaudio/best[height<=1080]" -o "~/Downloads/yt-dlp/%(uploader)s/%(playlist_title,single_playlist)s/%(playlist_index,00)s - %(title)s - [%(id)s].%(ext)s"'

You can even limit the download speed by adding this parameter: --limit-rate 640K This example is for 5 Mb/s.

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I used to force formats too but sometimes it fails because it cannot find the corresponding format. upload_date seems useful, I should update mine.

Also, didn't know it can also download subs. Good to know. Thanks for your version.

[–] anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been lucky I guess -- haven't had a failure with force formats before, I always thought if it couldn't download the format I wanted it was spinning the conversion over to ffmpeg. I haven't really paid that close attention to the output. :-)

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Well, it's generally fine for relatively new stuff but now to think I guess I had this problem with the older videos, older than this webm era. Other than that, it's great to be able to even pick a format. :)