YouTube Downloader (yt-dlp)
youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
Downloads videos from command line. Some features:
- YouTube:
- Can block sponsor sections of videos
- Feeds, stories, mixes, channels, albums
- Can download all videos in a channel
- Format sorting can default to higher resolutions and better codecs
- Cookies from browsers, allows agreeing to certain checks like age
- External support for:
- Aria2c external download app, works with DASH (mpd) and HLS (m3u8) formats
- Plugins
- ffmpeg as downloader and merging formats, can change is
--compat-options no-direct-merge
- Portable configuration from home and root directories
- Videos:
- Download sections of videos based on timestamps
- Split into chapters
- Subtitle extraction, embedding, and/or separate files
- Multiple paths and output templates
- Metadata
- Thumbnail embedding
- Certificates
- Sanitize filenames
Other features:
- Use
--compat-options filenameto change file naming formats
GUI Supports
Section titled “GUI Supports”Can use:
- tartube
- youtube-dl-gui