youtube-dl Questions

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I am downloading WebVTT files from youtube using youtube-dl. A typical file looks like this: WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.730 --> 00:00:05.200 align:start position:0% [Applau...
Disulfide asked 8/7, 2019 at 2:38

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I am trying to use youtube-dl to download some youtube video sound as mp3 and embed the thumbnail as well. But i get the following error every time i try: thumbnail_filename = info['thumbnails'][-...
Canaliculus asked 28/7, 2016 at 21:15

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I would like to access the result of the following shell command, youtube-dl -g "www.youtube.com/..." to print its output direct url to a file, from within a python program. This is what...
Arleyne asked 5/8, 2013 at 9:16

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I'm using youtube-dl frequently and have a quite simple file-naming scheme: lower case only and things of the same group are connected with "-" (minus, dash, etc.) while different things are connec...
Queer asked 26/3, 2020 at 19:23

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I am using youtube-dl to download videos from Lynda (I have an account). After about the 40th video in a list I received this error: ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbid...
Ombre asked 14/3, 2016 at 8:2

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I'm trying to get youtube video duration by using youtube-dl in python. here is the code, I cant find duration in dictMeta, how to get it? import youtube_dl ydl_opts = { 'format': 'bestaudio/b...
Noblesse asked 23/10, 2018 at 10:33

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I have just download youtube-dl so I can download video and audio files from youtube. I want to download the best audio from the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWusmdmc0to...
Unlettered asked 12/4, 2018 at 19:55

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I am trying to download all the videos from the playlist: I am using youtube-dl for this and the command is: youtube-dl -citk –format mp4 –yes-playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vy8970q0X...
Proserpina asked 24/1, 2018 at 12:21

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how can I set default download location in youtube-dl so that everything that I download with youtube-dl goes into that default directory?
Secco asked 9/9, 2015 at 14:24

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I'm using Flask with send_file() to have people download a file off the server. My current code is as follows: @app.route('/', methods=["GET", "POST"]) def index(): if request.method == "POST":...
Ac asked 12/12, 2018 at 16:23

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I am trying to save youtube videos as MP3's in my downloads folder. However, this ends up saving files in the same directory as youtube-dl. youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-qu...
Lexy asked 24/12, 2014 at 18:48

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Is possible download a MPEG Dash content with DRM? How can I decrypt using the MPD file? I tried download all M4S segments (audio and video) but when I join the segments the video doesn't work pr...
Hispania asked 26/5, 2017 at 6:29

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Here is the piece of code I have running on Dispatcher.IO thread pool suspend fun download(rquest: YoutubleDLRequest){ withContext(Dispatchers.IO){ YoutubeDL.init().execute(request) // downloads ...
Trabeated asked 13/4, 2021 at 5:54

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I'm trying to extract the Upload Dates, Titles, URLs and Durations from all the Youtube videos of a specific Playlist with youtube-dl, I don't need the videos - just the above pieces of data. So fa...
Tachograph asked 5/4, 2021 at 22:27

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From Catalina OS X: youtube-dl --version 2020.09.06 youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qohQD51F5bM zsh: no matches found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qohQD51F5bM I have successf...
Darrin asked 10/9, 2020 at 12:23

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is there any documentation for use youtube-dl as a python library in a project? I know that I can use the main class, but I can't find any documentation or example... import youtube_dl ydl = you...
Engender asked 21/10, 2014 at 20:44

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I am using youtube-dl for downloading the videos from YouTube. But in my office the internet will disconnect every 20Mb of download. [Error: Connection forcibly closed by remote server]. I have t...
Amie asked 4/4, 2016 at 11:39

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I'm using python embedded youtube_dl and I'd like to download video content directly into a temporary file. I attempted to create a NamedTemporaryFile and have youtube_dl write into it, but I alway...
Garbage asked 13/11, 2020 at 17:24

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I was happily downloading channels playlists but out of the blue youtube-dl detects any channel playlists as fully downloaded. I can download videos and playlists but no channels playlists. D...
Graniela asked 22/10, 2020 at 22:6

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When I use the youtube_dl library in a Python script to download a video, it prints the following in the console: [youtube] [video]: Downloading webpage [youtube] Downloading just video [video] bec...
Consign asked 22/11, 2020 at 17:47

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I was downloading a playlist from youtube using youtube-dl. I used autonumbering feature to number the videos which could be achieved by formatting the name of output file as follows -o "%(autonumb...
Levison asked 30/9, 2015 at 9:35

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At first I want to admit that I am a noob in python programming. but still somehow I have managed to figure out how to modify some python regular expressions as the extractor can get some extra dat...
Embracery asked 7/4, 2019 at 16:45

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I am trying to download a complete playlist in youtube, while downloading i want to enter serial number while downloading in front of the title of the video, For example if a playlist has a videos...
Laconism asked 25/9, 2015 at 14:37

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I've used many video downloaders before: atube catcher, 4k downloader, jDownloader, and currently using youtube-dl. I can't download videos, this for example, while still keeping their online...
Disappearance asked 15/8, 2020 at 3:45

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At the moment i am recording a LIVE stream video from youtube with youtube-dl (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl) The command i use for this: youtube-dl --id -f 92 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Spicebush asked 26/2, 2015 at 12:41

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