youtube-dl Questions

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I am trying to download songs from youtube using python 3.8 and youtube_dl 2020.3.24. But the weird thing is that most songs I try to download don't get downloaded. I'm talking 99% of them. The one...
Oryx asked 16/4, 2020 at 11:55

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TL;DR I'm trying to programmatically download a part of a YouTube video. The widely known procedure doesn't work for some videos and I'd like to overcome this situation. Context I'm trying to prog...
Irrigate asked 16/8, 2020 at 10:25

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I know how to download 1 youtube video command, 1 youtube playlist command but I don't know how to download several youtube videos at once in one command. How can I do it?
Bullnecked asked 15/6, 2018 at 1:52

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I Use library called YouTube-dl, which can download from many sites. it's support cookies files. I made the following code: youtube-dl -j —-cookies /path/to/cookies.txt URLgoesHere What I want is ...
Impend asked 12/3, 2021 at 1:58

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Here is a sample of WebVTT WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en Style: ::cue(c.colorCCCCCC) { color: rgb(204,204,204); } ::cue(c.colorE5E5E5) { color: rgb(229,229,229); } ## 00:00:0...
Sinistrality asked 10/8, 2018 at 10:15

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I have a problem with youtube-dl library (https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/). I use youtube-dl not for directly downloading videos by this library, instead I first generate link using command like ...
Alabaster asked 19/8, 2015 at 20:7

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I want to extract audio from a video downloaded with youtube-dl on Windows. I got youtube-dl working, but am unable to extract the audio. This problem is caused due to not having the correct audio ...
Isoelectronic asked 6/1, 2013 at 19:29

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I made my own script using python and youtube-dl library to easily download songs from online radio. It works by copying a playlist, saving it to a .txt file, and then running a script that goes th...
Schaeffer asked 13/7, 2020 at 16:56

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I have a very powerful bot in discord (discord.py, PYTHON) and it can play music in voice channels. It gets the music from youtube (youtube_dl). It worked perfectly before but now it doesn't want t...
Studdingsail asked 18/2, 2023 at 19:19

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How to download playlist using youtube-dl from start certain number to an upper limit? I tried to use in the code: youtube-dl -o '~/Documents/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(playl...
Anglomania asked 17/6, 2017 at 23:32

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macOS 10.12 Seems like the same problem here but top answers just led to more questions. Top answer says to do: brew link --overwrite python which yields: Warning: Already linked: /usr/local...
Jaconet asked 15/4, 2018 at 1:9

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in the past I have downloaded Youtube's playlists with youtube-dl without any problem. However, now it downloads 0 videos. Could it have something to do with RIAA's DMCA takedown? Any suggestion or...
Oaten asked 12/11, 2020 at 10:51

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Using youtube-dl, you can easily download an ongoing live streaming. $ youtube-dl --hls-use-mpegts <URL> If the target live stream hasn't been started yet, however, the command exits right a...
Para asked 12/8, 2020 at 10:27

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There's a few posts on downloading audio from YouTube using youtube-dl, but none of them are concrete or too helpful. I'm wondering what the best way to do it from a Python script is. For example, ...
Langill asked 14/12, 2014 at 20:9

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I'm making a little graphic interface with Python 3 which should download a youtube video with its URL. I used the youtube_dl module for that. This is my code : import youtube_dl # Youtube_dl is us...
Vulgate asked 9/9, 2020 at 17:38

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Is it possible to use youtube-dl to download video from a .m3u8 stream file or other livestream formats? When I copy the video URL into YouTube-dl it spits out: [https @ 0x7fc351416080] inflate ret...
Gymnasium asked 5/5, 2016 at 1:25

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Sorry if this question is misguided. I'm using youtube-dl to download song videos as mp3's before adding them to itunes. The problem is that the videos dont seem to contain the metadata in there. I...
Nerine asked 5/10, 2016 at 23:44

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I need to extract specific frames of an online video to work on an algorithm but I don't want to download the whole video because that would make it highly inefficient. For starters, I tried workin...
Kandi asked 19/2, 2021 at 6:30

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I'm using youtube-dl to extract the best possible audio quality from youtube videos. However the best quality audio usually turns out to be the webm format, which isn't useful. I would like to writ...
Soul asked 5/7, 2017 at 12:53

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I am using youtube-dl with a flask app to download a file and return the file. When I download the filename is changed slightly from the video title. Looking through the source code I thought I fou...
Arne asked 9/11, 2020 at 21:5

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So im trying to make a simple discord music bot, which is halted right now due to this problem. The issue is that everytime i try to play a music through youtube_dl library, it pops up with the pro...
Flutter asked 12/8, 2022 at 14:28

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I have this following code: from youtube_dl import YoutubeDL videos = [...] with YoutubeDL() as ydl: ydl.download(videos) And this is the error: WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: ...
Federico asked 23/7, 2022 at 5:21

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I want to download the subtitle of a YouTube playlist with the following specifications: Only in English In srt format Just the subtitles files and not the video itself I have tried the following...
Deemphasize asked 3/10, 2019 at 12:10

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I wrote a python script to download a list of YouTube URLs, and I want to change the output folder by the subject I'm downlaoding. For example, When I'm downloading a playlist, I want the videos in...
Polytechnic asked 20/1, 2022 at 14:20

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Essentially , what I want to do is , press a button that I program in Flutter and when that button is pressed , a python script should start running on my Android device . I want to use youtube-d...
Sorilda asked 11/1, 2020 at 19:33

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