Can I use youtube-dl to provide the direct links and use other means to download them? [closed]

Question

Specifically, I would like to use DownloadThemAll. Can I use youtube-dl to just give me the direct link I need?

Cockcrow

Use -f best to get video and audio merged. github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/8818 – Acceptor

Answer 1

Sure, you can.

Use the --get-url option to extract the direct link to media. For example:

youtube-dl --get-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc

Blasto

Thanks, sorry for the noob questions, I did manage to figure it out. I am working on something to replace some of the functionality of BYTubeD since it was abandond long ago and I fear one day it will stop working. So far I have made this. – Cockcrow

this method only get video and audio apart, can't get video and audio mixed together. – Albanian