

The possible values here are 0-9 (you can also pass explicit bitrate such as 128K). -audio-quality 0 - Save audio with highest quality possible.-audio-format mp3 - Save the audio stream in mp3 format.-extract-audio - Extract the audio stream and discard the video.-prefer-ffmpeg - Tells youtube-dl to prefer ffmpeg (as opposed to avconv).youtube-dl -prefer-ffmpeg -extract-audio -audio-format mp3 -audio-quality 0 -embed-thumbnail īreaking down the meaning of the supplied options:

You can pass it an URL for a single song or even an entire playlist. Youtube-dl -yes-playlist -ignore-errors -sleep-interval 30 -o '%(playlist)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' "$1"įor this task, I use youtube-dl (w/ a dependency on ffmpeg) with the following options for best results. Youtube-dl -ignore-errors -sleep-interval 30 -i -f bestaudio -extract-audio -audio-format mp3 -audio-quality 0 -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' "$1" Youtube-dl -ignore-errors -f bestaudio -extract-audio -audio-format mp3 -audio-quality 0 -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' "$1" This will also help make sure your IP doesn't get banned. It is really simple and also respects YouTube's flood or bot protection by having a 30 second interval between downloads. If I want to download a video as an mp3 I can do that, or download an entire playlist as mp3 I can use mp3p then the url to the playlist. This should honestly just be included aliases when you install the youtube-dl package in my opinion. This question has been answered a lot, but I figured I would add something really useful.

Now install ffmpeg from the official repo. c Resume download of a video which was interrupted beforeįor complete list of switches execute man youtube-dl in terminal. You can also specify other options -b Best quality To download a video execute the following: youtube-dl This will let you upgrade with sudo youtube-dl -U Or as official readme suggest using curl or wget. Install youtube-dl from the official repository in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
