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youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from youtube.com and and about 150 other websites.

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Often, youtube titles have special characters that are not being saved to a file, like Hello!:\\Test/ How do I get the full path the file is saved to?
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I have youtube dl and I have a problem with video quality. I have tried youtube-dl on odysee but the problem is the video has one format only and with best format option I can't change the quality ...
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I have open video downloader, which worked before. But now it doesn't. I tried to install pip by putting ensure pip in Python 3.11 but I don't know how to change the greater than signs. Or if you have ...
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When I want to install youtube-dl python3 -m pip install --upgrade youtube-dl I get this error message: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/secretstorage/dhcrypto.py:15: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: ...
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I recently installed 22.04 completely from scratch. Just now I followed instructions to install youtube-dl, with wget (from github.com): sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/...
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Whenever I try to download videos using the youtube-dl, I get an error: usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory
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In the past I used to use youtube-dl to download all videos of an instagram channel but today I use that channel again and it doesn't work. youtube-dl -i -f mp4 -o %(uploader_id)s-%(id)s.mp4 -a 1.txt ...
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I have problems downloading any video using youtube-dl on Ubuntu 20.04. Whenever I try to download a video, the progress is stuck at Downloading webpage. Then I wait and nothing happens... youtube-dl -...
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How do I specify the location in my filesystem where I want to download a YouTube video with youtube-dl? I tried using the -P option in youtube-dl, but it didn't work.
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I am running 22.04 LTS & would like to know how to get the size of any download on youtube-dl; How do I do that? I have tried GitHub issue Determining file size without downloading but on channels ...
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youtube-dl -o "/home/smith/Original-Video.%(ext)s" https://whatever && ffmpeg -i /home/smith/Original-Video.YYY -filter:v fps=10 -b:v 368k -b:a 32k -c:a libopus -strict -2 /home/...
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After i upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04. i am receiving this error while downloading ClipGrab "Error downloading youtube-dlp: SSL handshake failed"
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Because of slow speed on youtube-dl and after reading this discussion I am trying to use yt-dlp (current version : 2021.12.27). But when I run yt-dlp https://youtu.be/qIX1BhvUMJ0 I am getting error. ...
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I have a simple youtube_dl function to access the youtube download links here, @QtCore.Slot(str, result=str) def getDownloadLinks(self, url): try: with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL({}) as ydl: ...
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I'm downloading a video with youtube-dl and trying to get the best possible sound quality. Youtube-dl has an option --audio-quality best that is supposed to achieve that. As I would expect, that doesn'...

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