# Download best mp4 format available or any other best if no mp4 available $ youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best ' # Download best format available but not better that 480p $ youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[height. # Download only the videos uploaded in the last 6 months $ youtube-dl --dateafter now-6months # Download only the videos uploaded on January 1, 1970 $ youtube-dl --date 19700101 $ # Download only the videos uploaded in the 200x decade $ youtube-dl --dateafter 20000101 --datebefore 20091231 FAQ How do I update youtube-dl? If you've followed, you can simply run youtube-dl -U (or, on Linux, sudo youtube-dl -U). If you have used pip, a simple sudo pip install -U youtube-dl is sufficient to update. If you have installed youtube-dl using a package manager like apt-get or yum, use the standard system update mechanism to update. Note that distribution packages are often outdated. As a rule of thumb, youtube-dl releases at least once a month, and often weekly or even daily.
Simply go to to find out the current version. Unfortunately, there is nothing we youtube-dl developers can do if your distribution serves a really outdated version. You can (and should) complain to your distribution in their bugtracker or support forum. As a last resort, you can also uninstall the version installed by your package manager and follow our manual installation instructions.
For that, remove the distribution's package, with a line like sudo apt-get remove -y youtube-dl Afterwards, simply follow: sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl hash -r Again, from then on you'll be able to update with sudo youtube-dl -U. Kyocera cs 4550ci kx driver for mac download. Youtube-dl is extremely slow to start on Windows Add a file exclusion for youtube-dl.exe in Windows Defender settings. I'm getting an error Unable to extract OpenGraph title on YouTube playlists YouTube changed their playlist format in March 2014 and later on, so you'll need at least youtube-dl 2014.07.25 to download all YouTube videos. If you have installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball, please use that to update. Note that Ubuntu packages do not seem to get updated anymore. Since we are not affiliated with Ubuntu, there is little we can do.
I want to install youtube-dl on Mac, but I have no idea how. I have python and youtube-dl.dms. I have no experience with python. 4k Video Downloader. 4k Video Downloader allows to download video, audio, subtitles, channels and playlists from YouTube in high quality and to save it on your computer.
Feel free to to the - all they have to do is update the package to a somewhat recent version. See above for a way to update. I'm getting an error when trying to use output template: error: using output template conflicts with using title, video ID or auto number Make sure you are not using -o with any of these options -t, --title, --id, -A or --auto-number set in command line or in a configuration file. Remove the latter if any. Do I always have to pass -citw? By default, youtube-dl intends to have the best options (incidentally, if you have a convincing case that these should be different, ). Therefore, it is unnecessary and sometimes harmful to copy long option strings from webpages.
In particular, the only option out of -citw that is regularly useful is -i. Can you please put the -b option back?
Most people asking this question are not aware that youtube-dl now defaults to downloading the highest available quality as reported by YouTube, which will be 1080p or 720p in some cases, so you no longer need the -b option. For some specific videos, maybe YouTube does not report them to be available in a specific high quality format you're interested in.
In that case, simply request it with the -f option and youtube-dl will try to download it. I get HTTP error 402 when trying to download a video. Apparently YouTube requires you to pass a CAPTCHA test if you download too much. We're, but at the moment, your best course of action is pointing a web browser to the youtube URL, solving the CAPTCHA, and restart youtube-dl. Do I need any other programs? Youtube-dl works fine on its own on most sites. However, if you want to convert video/audio, you'll need.