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| #single video | |
| youtube-dl --cookies youtube.com_cookies.txt "URL" | |
| #playlist | |
| youtube-dl --yes-playlist --cookies youtube.com_cookies.txt "URL" | |
| You can use: --playlist-start, --playlist-end, --playlist-reverse or --playlist-items to achieve this goal. | |
| #Note: cookie should be in Netscape format | |
| Addons | |
| #https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/get-cookiestxt/bgaddhkoddajcdgocldbbfleckgcbcid | |
| #https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookies-txt/ | |
| python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip | |
| pip install yt-dlp | |
| yt-dlp --yes-playlist --playlist-start 16 --cookies cookies.txt "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?" | |
| curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python - | |
| ------------- | |
| Youtube-dl multiple videos download from a file. | |
| yt-dlp.exe -a file.txt | |
| ------------- | |
| Subtitile & Video Resolution: | |
| yt-dlp --list-subs --cookies youtube_cookie.txt URL | |
| yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --sub-format srt --sub-lang en --skip-download --cookies youtube_cookie.txt URL | |
| To select the video quality, first use the -F option to list the available formats, here’s an example, | |
| youtube-dl -F URL | |
| The best quality is 22 so use -f 22 instead of -F to download the MP4 video with 1280x720 resolution like this: | |
| youtube-dl -f 22 URL |
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aman@lenovo-IdeaPad-Slim-3-15IAH8:
$ sudo snap install youtube-dl$ youtube-dl --yes-playlist --cookies youtube.com_cookies.txt "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQyk5n0XjLA&list=PLa1oHnQI7GayGWZnSqX8WVmlHzdfvAvpN"youtube-dl 2021.12.17+git01bf89e from Joe Borg (joeborg) installed
aman@lenovo-IdeaPad-Slim-3-15IAH8:
[youtube:tab] Downloading playlist PLa1oHnQI7GayGWZnSqX8WVmlHzdfvAvpN - add --no-playlist to just download video OQyk5n0XjLA
[youtube:tab] PLa1oHnQI7GayGWZnSqX8WVmlHzdfvAvpN: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract yt initial data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
aman@lenovo-IdeaPad-Slim-3-15IAH8:~$ youtube-dl --cookies youtube.com_cookies.txt "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQyk5n0XjLA&list=PLa1oHnQI7GayGWZnSqX8WVmlHzdfvAvpN"
[youtube:tab] Downloading playlist PLa1oHnQI7GayGWZnSqX8WVmlHzdfvAvpN - add --no-playlist to just download video OQyk5n0XjLA
[youtube:tab] PLa1oHnQI7GayGWZnSqX8WVmlHzdfvAvpN: Downloading webpage
[youtube:tab] PLa1oHnQI7GayGWZnSqX8WVmlHzdfvAvpN: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Injustice: Gods Among Us I Year One | Complete
[youtube:tab] Downloading page 1
[youtube:tab] playlist Injustice: Gods Among Us I Year One | Complete: Downloading 12 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 12
[youtube] OQyk5n0XjLA: Downloading webpage
[youtube] OQyk5n0XjLA: Downloading player da13af8d
WARNING: [youtube] Unable to decode n-parameter: download likely to be throttled (Unable to extract Initial JS player n function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/snap/youtube-dl/4806/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1520, in _n_descramble
self._player_cache[player_id] = self._extract_n_function(video_id, player_url)
File "/snap/youtube-dl/4806/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1492, in _extract_n_function
funcname = self._extract_n_function_name(jscode)
File "/snap/youtube-dl/4806/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1470, in _extract_n_function_name
jscode, 'Initial JS player n function name')
File "/snap/youtube-dl/4806/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1012, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player n function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
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ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.