Questions tagged [youtube-dl]
youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites.
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youtube-dl keep size under xx MB
Is it possible to automatically limit the size of videos downloaded by youtube-dl? Whether by downloading it partially or automatically adjusting the resolution/framerate? Preferably I'd be able to ...
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mpv fails to play youtube videos
I've been using mpv for a while, but now whenever I try to play a youtube video the following output shows up: [ffmpeg] https: HTTP error 403 Forbidden Failed to open https://rr5. . . EDL: Could not ...
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How to watch video while still downloading including audio?
If I download a video using youtube-downloader I can watch the part file while downloading (in my case using mpv). Suppose I cannot or don't want to select a format containing both video and audio ...
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Mpv not running youtube urls because youtube-dl is out of date
I'm using Linux Mint 21.1 and I recently installed mpv. When I run mpv followed by a youtube url I get the following lines: [ytdl_hook] ERROR: Unable to extract updater id: please report this issue on ...
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If no input URL is supplied use list from text file
I am trying to create a shell script for yt-dlp that takes an URL as input from the command line or if no input is given use an internal list. The script works when given input, but crashes when no ...
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command not found: xsel -ob
I'm using Manjaro Linux. I've changed my yt-dlp's zsh configuration and now I get ❯ ytvp deal_with_long_filename:1: command not found: xsel -ob deal_with_long_filename:2: command not found: xsel -ob ...
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"Unsupported URL: https://www.youtube.com/"
How to grab a youtube video if youtube-dl reports "ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.youtube.com/"? Complete error: [generic] watch?app=desktop: Requesting header [redirect] Following ...
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How to list chapter titles from a YouTube video using youtube-dl / yt-dlp
Some YouTube content creators split their videos into chapters. A subset of them kindly offer the list of chapters titles on description video, with their starting timestamp. Sometimes they decide not ...
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