yt-dlp is a command-line program, written in Python, that lets you easily download videos and audio from more than a thousand websites. It is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc.
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Making a pdf out of timestamps as heading and transcript as content
Ok so I have recently started liking long form content on YouTube and would like to achieve the following:
Use timestamp titles as chapter titles
Use transcript content as chapter content
Restrict transcript content within a chapter to the…
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Searching for Youtube videos with specific quality using yt-dlp in python
Following this question, I try to use yt-dlp to search Youtube videos specifically in 720p or 1080p (preferably 1080p). The ytsearchX URL seems rather undocumented. I would like to know if it is possible to filter out poor quality videos.
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Can't use --noconsole of Pyinstaller without crash
I have a little problem. When I run my python code, everything works, and with pyinstaller when I compile it with the console. But when I compile it without console with pyinstaller, it crashes. Do you have an idea ?
My program uses the yt_dlp and…
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yt_dlp · Adding video publishing date to filename after download?
I have a question about specific programming problem (for a shell script), a software algorithm (yt-dlp syntax):
Is there any way to add the publishing date of the video at the beginning of the filename? For channel downloads that would enable me to…
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How to change the title of audio before downloading in yt-dlp
Metadata of any song which has '|' in title is not being extracted so i want to change '|' to '-'and then download but it doesn't change.
When i run this code it does download audio but doesn't change | to -.
import yt_dlp
from mutagen.easyid3…
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how to use yt-dlp in android native app - how to add aarch64 excutable file and excute it in android studio native app
I'm trying to use https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp library and add it to the android studio, but I can't get it to work
What I understood from the research I did was that I would use java ProcessBuilder and give it the path of the file
Before that,…
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How to store yt-dlp mp3 inside a memory object python
import yt_dlp
import io
def download(url):
with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL() as ydl:
info = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False)
title = info["title"]
ydl_opts = {
'extract-audio': True,
'format': "bestaudio/best",
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How to download the second (or third) video using ytsearch on yt-dlp / youtube-dl
If I do
$ yt-dlp ytsearch:"some query"
yt-dlp downloads the first result of "some query" and everything is fine. What if I want to download the second result, how can I achieve that?
If it is not possible just using shell, how can I do it with…
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youtube-dl : backup channel as all videos + playlist for players
I wonder if there is an option(s) of using youtube-dl or yt-dlp for backing up educational channels from youtube, in a way that will do the following (as a PS or cmd script):
create folder "videos" in the same folder as script is located
download…
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How can I install [latest version] of youtube-dl or yt-dlp on Centos 7 ? I have been trying for the past 2 days withous success :\
I keep getting this id error both on youtube-dl and yt-dlp
ROR: [youtube] _8zoICtzoDs: Unable to extract uploader id;
I guess youtube changed format recently (video id) and I would like to install the adapted version of the software.
Thank you very…
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yt-dlp prompt user for custom video quality
How can I create a python script that prompts the user for a video URL, asks the user to choose a specific video quality, and then download it to a (preferably) custom video file? Digging through their documentation has been unfruitful, and code…
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FFmpegPCMAudio not playing in discord no error
Okey, it might be something obvious that ive missed but i really can't find the issue. I am currently making a discord-music-bot which has worked fine before. However as soon as i moved over to yt-dlp from youtube-dl (due to an error with…
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Using yt_dlp in discord.py to play a song
Youtube-dl suddenly stopped working and was giving me uploader id errors so after reading a few articles I decided to use yt-dlp as an alternative but as I try to run the command below it just gives me an "Output file #0 does not contain any stream"…
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How to make a status be shown only once, before downloading video using yt-dlp, and constantly undating the status above?
I want to create a script which will download videos using yt-dlp, and show it beatifully in console.
c = Console()
with c.status("[bold blue]Downloading video...", spinner='bounce') as status:
with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
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how to estimate how much until the download will be finished and then show it on the site as a progression bar+ timer
``pretty much i know that i have to do it in java but i really don t know anything about java, only thing i knew how to do is how to make the page not freeze up during changes of the page, through AJAX
pretty much i wanted to challenge myself by…
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