youtube-dl
Download videos from YouTube and other websites. tldr-pages
On several platforms
Several platforms
Download a video or playlist
youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0'IdentifyList all formats that a video or playlist is available in
youtube-dl --list-formats 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwa0_nE9H7A'IdentifyDownload a video or playlist at a specific quality
youtube-dl --format "best[height<=480]" 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0'IdentifyDownload the audio from a video and convert it to an MP3
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 'url'IdentifyDownload the best quality audio and video and merge them
youtube-dl --format bestvideo+bestaudio 'url'IdentifyDownload video(s) as MP4 files with custom filenames
youtube-dl --format mp4 --output "%(playlist_index)s-%(title)s by %(uploader)s on %(upload_date)s in %(playlist)s.%(ext)s" 'url'IdentifyDownload a particular language's subtitles along with the video
youtube-dl --sub-lang en --write-sub 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwa0_nE9H7A'IdentifyDownload a playlist and extract MP3s from it
youtube-dl --format "bestaudio" --continue --no-overwrites --ignore-errors --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" 'url_to_playlist'Identify