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What are some handy youtube-dl aliases you use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just saw the huge list of sites that yt-dl supports, and it's ... well staggering. I've been playing around with it a bit more, and I'm writing custom aliases for ease of downloading. For example I made:

alias bandcamp-dl="youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --add-metadata -o '~/Music/%(artist)s/%(album)s/%(track_number)02d - %(track)s.%(ext)s'"

That alias allows me to do bandcamp-dl <http://some-album.url>, and then it creates the proper artist and album directories in my music library, adds the tracks as mp3s with formatted file names, and sets their metadata so my music app can pick it up.

Anyone else have some handy aliases or yt-dl commands that do something cool?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 years ago

I use dl-a for download audio (usually music) and dl-a-clipboard for download from clipboard.

alias dl-a="youtube-dl -x --prefer-free-formats --add-metadata -o '~/music/%(stuff)'" alias dl-a-clipboard="dl-a $(xclip --.....)"

Also you can use MPV for viewing any of those videos without a web browser and all your default configs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

Something cool I figured out just recently is that youtube_dl can also search for videos. That's why I made a small wrapper that lets you search YouTube via CLI: https://lemmy.ml/post/60177

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It could be interesting to create a distro-package (I think it would be very easy to make one for deb/rpm/arch packages) with all these aliases to make them easily available to other people too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

I never thought on using yt-dl like this, you gave me some ideas, usually i'd be just typing every single time i wanted to download something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

OMG how could I haven't thought about this... I'm always opening up a text file to copy the command I use... The commands I use which I'll now turn to aliases are:

youtube-dl -f 'best[height<=720]' -ciwq "url"&
youtube-dl -f 'best[height<=720]' --download-archive downloaded.txt --no-post-overwrites -ciwq -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "url"&
youtube-dl -f 'best[height<=720]' -ciwq -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --batch-file='/path/to/batch-file.txt'

I've found this: oh-my-zsh youtube-dl plugin. And I've also added them to my dotfiles.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

this.. :see-no-evil monkey:

yt-dl get prn_movie_hd