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build and usage

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# download/upgrade
curl -L -o ~/bin/youtube-dl https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl

# build from source repo
git clone https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl.git
cd youtube-dl
make clean && make

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# to parse a playlist use "--yes-playlist url" or simply "playlist_id"

# downoload a playlist audio only
youtube-dl -i -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" \
  -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 5 \
  --postprocessor-args "-ar 44100" \
  <playlist_id>

# extract audio tracks from an url list
cat list.txt | xargs youtube-dl -i -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" \
  -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 5 \
  --postprocessor-args "-ar 44100"

# download a specific combination of audio and video in a single file
youtube-dl -F <url> # detect desired format codes
youtube-dl --merge-output-format mkv -f <code1>+<code2> <url>

# download a portion (-ss=skip duration, -t=process time)
youtube-dl <url> --postprocessor-args '-ss 00:00:14 -t 00:04:03'

format selection

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yt-dlp -F url # show available formats with their ID

# download and join
yt-dlp -f "IDvideo+IDaudio" --merge-output-format mkv \
  --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-format srt \
  url

# or download separated, then join manually via mkvtoolnix-gui
yt-dlp -f "IDvideo,IDaudio" \
  --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-format srt \
  url

# optioanl: convert VTT to SRT
ffmpeg -i input.vtt output.srt

download splitted playlist via album_splitter

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./album_splitter.sh URL <video_url>

browser tools

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// get youtube page links
var list = '';
document.
  querySelectorAll('a[id="video-title"]').
  forEach(function (i) {
    list += 'https://www.youtube.com' + i.getAttribute('href') +
            '  # ' + i.innerText.trim() + "\n";
  });
console.log(list);

Source: youtube-dl hp, stackoverflow.com, askubuntu.com

See also: yt-dlp fork