I've downloaded youtube-dl.exe executed it, but a cmd windows appear for 1 second, then disappeared and nothing...

Is this a program? Or a plugin for a web browser?

 

Last edited: Apr 1, 2020

there is a version with a gui https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui
download the windows installer app version

 

Ok, thank you

 

Having an mp3 from a youtube video mean reconvert file from an already lossy codec (youtube uses m4a or ogg) into mp3, another lossy format: bad idea.
I usually rip the audio file using Jdownloader

As you can see from this Jdownloader screenshot, the download already contains a separate audio track (m4a in this case) from site, no need to encode again

 

Yes, I use it too, for single videos,
but as I only want the audio files,if I download a long playlist, that mean delete manually all other files for each video, this is what I'm trying to avoid. If you knw a trick to automatically filter file types into JDwonloader, that would be great.

 

@Olymoon
Jdownloader: How to download audio playlist only from Youtube

• Copy web address of youtube playlist and add it into Jdownloader
• On the right column, uncheck all unwanted group: image, documents etc.. (see pic)

• Start download
• Enjoy

As already said, the format used from youtube to encode audio is m4a or ogg, there could be the chance that old mp3 devices won’t read files

 

Olly
youtube-dl working on command prompt.
You need a 3 things to make it works:

1. Make a new folder in chosen location for ex. make a folder called YT in C drive so your location is C:\YT
Then move youtube-dl.exe to this folder

2. Create a new text document and paste this:

Code:

C:\YT\youtube-dl.exe --add-metadata --write-info-json --write-description --write-annotation --write-thumbnail youtube-dl -f best -ciw -o E:\Download\Videos\%(title)s.%(ext)s -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWVc-xVZxho

Code:

C:\YT\youtube-dl.exe

- is your youtube-dl.exe location

Code:

E:\Download\Videos\%(title)s.%(ext)s

- is your destination folder to save (you cannot use space, use names without spaces)

Code:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWVc-xVZxho

- is your youtube video link

Code:

best

- is your video quality, sometimes youtube-dl didn't catch 60fps videos and quality is not the best so you can experiment and use this instead of best (copy and paste with ") -

Code:

"(mp4)[height=720][fps=60]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]"

- first check the quality options in the video on youtube then set on the text file


3. If you set everything on the text file open cmd.exe then copy everything from this txt file (ctrl+c) and paste (ctrl+v) to the command prompt then Click Enter.

For example:

Code:

C:\YT\youtube-dl.exe --add-metadata --write-info-json --write-description --write-annotation --write-thumbnail youtube-dl -f "(mp4)[height=1080][fps=30]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]" -ciw -o E:\Download\Videos\ChemicalBrothers\%(title)s.%(ext)s -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXMhGADyMxE

Wait until download ends.
Close Command prompt window
Done!
You can download all playlist and all channels or single videos and convert to any video formats or download only audio tracks

 

Last edited: Apr 1, 2020

thanks for the write up. I just placed this

-i -x --audio-format mp3 --yes-playlist -o "C:/Users/yourusername/Music/download/"'%(title)s.%(ext)s'

into a config.txt inside a youtube-dl folder I created in %appdata%

if you want, you can remove the forrmat mp3 to say wav or what ever, and dont forget to change "yourusername"

edit: if you want to download a playlist, encapsulate the url with "

 

Last edited: Apr 2, 2020

There is a list of all options/commands with description in youtube-dl:

Code:

DESCRIPTION
youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. 
It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. 
It should work on your Unix box, on Windows or on macOS. 
It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.

youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

OPTIONS
-h, --help                       Print this help text and exit
--version                        Print program version and exit
-U, --update                     Update this program to latest version. Make
                                sure that you have sufficient permissions
                                (run with sudo if needed)
-i, --ignore-errors              Continue on download errors, for example to
                                skip unavailable videos in a playlist
--abort-on-error                 Abort downloading of further videos (in the
                                playlist or the command line) if an error
                                occurs
--dump-user-agent                Display the current browser identification
--list-extractors                List all supported extractors
--extractor-descriptions         Output descriptions of all supported
                                extractors
--force-generic-extractor        Force extraction to use the generic
                                extractor
--default-search PREFIX          Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For
                                example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos
                                from google videos for youtube-dl "large
                                apple". Use the value "auto" to let
                                youtube-dl guess ("auto_warning" to emit a
                                warning when guessing). "error" just throws
                                an error. The default value "fixup_error"
                                repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if
                                this is not possible instead of searching.
--ignore-config                  Do not read configuration files. When given
                                in the global configuration file
                                /etc/youtube-dl.conf: Do not read the user
                                configuration in ~/.config/youtube-
                                dl/config (%APPDATA%/youtube-dl/config.txt
                                on Windows)
--config-location PATH           Location of the configuration file; either
                                the path to the config or its containing
                                directory.
--flat-playlist                  Do not extract the videos of a playlist,
                                only list them.
--mark-watched                   Mark videos watched (YouTube only)
--no-mark-watched                Do not mark videos watched (YouTube only)
--no-color                       Do not emit color codes in output

Network Options:
--proxy URL                      Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy.
                                To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper
                                scheme. For example
                                socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty
                                string (--proxy "") for direct connection
--socket-timeout SECONDS         Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
--source-address IP              Client-side IP address to bind to
-4, --force-ipv4                 Make all connections via IPv4
-6, --force-ipv6                 Make all connections via IPv6

Geo Restriction:
--geo-verification-proxy URL     Use this proxy to verify the IP address for
                                some geo-restricted sites. The default
                                proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the
                                option is not present) is used for the
                                actual downloading.
--geo-bypass                     Bypass geographic restriction via faking
                                X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
--no-geo-bypass                  Do not bypass geographic restriction via
                                faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
--geo-bypass-country CODE        Force bypass geographic restriction with
                                explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2
                                country code
--geo-bypass-ip-block IP_BLOCK   Force bypass geographic restriction with
                                explicitly provided IP block in CIDR
                                notation

Video Selection:
--playlist-start NUMBER          Playlist video to start at (default is 1)
--playlist-end NUMBER            Playlist video to end at (default is last)
--playlist-items ITEM_SPEC       Playlist video items to download. Specify
                                indices of the videos in the playlist
                                separated by commas like: "--playlist-items
                                1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos
                                indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can
                                specify range: "--playlist-items
                                1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos
                                at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.
--match-title REGEX              Download only matching titles (regex or
                                caseless sub-string)
--reject-title REGEX             Skip download for matching titles (regex or
                                caseless sub-string)
--max-downloads NUMBER           Abort after downloading NUMBER files
--min-filesize SIZE              Do not download any videos smaller than
                                SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
--max-filesize SIZE              Do not download any videos larger than SIZE
                                (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
--date DATE                      Download only videos uploaded in this date
--datebefore DATE                Download only videos uploaded on or before
                                this date (i.e. inclusive)
--dateafter DATE                 Download only videos uploaded on or after
                                this date (i.e. inclusive)
--min-views COUNT                Do not download any videos with less than
                                COUNT views
--max-views COUNT                Do not download any videos with more than
                                COUNT views
--match-filter FILTER            Generic video filter. Specify any key (see
                                the "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a list of
                                available keys) to match if the key is
                                present, !key to check if the key is not
                                present, key > NUMBER (like "comment_count
                                > 12", also works with >=, <, <=, !=, =) to
                                compare against a number, key = 'LITERAL'
                                (like "uploader = 'Mike Smith'", also works
                                with !=) to match against a string literal
                                and & to require multiple matches. Values
                                which are not known are excluded unless you
                                put a question mark (?) after the operator.
                                For example, to only match videos that have
                                been liked more than 100 times and disliked
                                less than 50 times (or the dislike
                                functionality is not available at the given
                                service), but who also have a description,
                                use --match-filter "like_count > 100 &
                                dislike_count <? 50 & description" .
--no-playlist                    Download only the video, if the URL refers
                                to a video and a playlist.
--yes-playlist                   Download the playlist, if the URL refers to
                                a video and a playlist.
--age-limit YEARS                Download only videos suitable for the given
                                age
--download-archive FILE          Download only videos not listed in the
                                archive file. Record the IDs of all
                                downloaded videos in it.
--include-ads                    Download advertisements as well
                                (experimental)

Download Options:
-r, --limit-rate RATE            Maximum download rate in bytes per second
                                (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)
-R, --retries RETRIES            Number of retries (default is 10), or
                                "infinite".
--fragment-retries RETRIES       Number of retries for a fragment (default
                                is 10), or "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative and
                                ISM)
--skip-unavailable-fragments     Skip unavailable fragments (DASH, hlsnative
                                and ISM)
--abort-on-unavailable-fragment  Abort downloading when some fragment is not
                                available
--keep-fragments                 Keep downloaded fragments on disk after
                                downloading is finished; fragments are
                                erased by default
--buffer-size SIZE               Size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K)
                                (default is 1024)
--no-resize-buffer               Do not automatically adjust the buffer
                                size. By default, the buffer size is
                                automatically resized from an initial value
                                of SIZE.
--http-chunk-size SIZE           Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP
                                downloading (e.g. 10485760 or 10M) (default
                                is disabled). May be useful for bypassing
                                bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver
                                (experimental)
--playlist-reverse               Download playlist videos in reverse order
--playlist-random                Download playlist videos in random order
--xattr-set-filesize             Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with
                                expected file size
--hls-prefer-native              Use the native HLS downloader instead of
                                ffmpeg
--hls-prefer-ffmpeg              Use ffmpeg instead of the native HLS
                                downloader
--hls-use-mpegts                 Use the mpegts container for HLS videos,
                                allowing to play the video while
                                downloading (some players may not be able
                                to play it)
--external-downloader COMMAND    Use the specified external downloader.
                                Currently supports
                                aria2c,avconv,axel,curl,ffmpeg,httpie,wget
--external-downloader-args ARGS  Give these arguments to the external
                                downloader

Filesystem Options:
-a, --batch-file FILE            File containing URLs to download ('-' for
                                stdin), one URL per line. Lines starting
                                with '#', ';' or ']' are considered as
                                comments and ignored.
--id                             Use only video ID in file name
-o, --output TEMPLATE            Output filename template, see the "OUTPUT
                                TEMPLATE" for all the info
--autonumber-start NUMBER        Specify the start value for %(autonumber)s
                                (default is 1)
--restrict-filenames             Restrict filenames to only ASCII
                                characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in
                                filenames
-w, --no-overwrites              Do not overwrite files
-c, --continue                   Force resume of partially downloaded files.
                                By default, youtube-dl will resume
                                downloads if possible.
--no-continue                    Do not resume partially downloaded files
                                (restart from beginning)
--no-part                        Do not use .part files - write directly
                                into output file
--no-mtime                       Do not use the Last-modified header to set
                                the file modification time
--write-description              Write video description to a .description
                                file
--write-info-json                Write video metadata to a .info.json file
--write-annotations              Write video annotations to a
                                .annotations.xml file
--load-info-json FILE            JSON file containing the video information
                                (created with the "--write-info-json"
                                option)
--cookies FILE                   File to read cookies from and dump cookie
                                jar in
--cache-dir DIR                  Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl
                                can store some downloaded information
                                permanently. By default
                                $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or
                                ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the moment, only
                                YouTube player files (for videos with
                                obfuscated signatures) are cached, but that
                                may change.
--no-cache-dir                   Disable filesystem caching
--rm-cache-dir                   Delete all filesystem cache files

Thumbnail images:
--write-thumbnail                Write thumbnail image to disk
--write-all-thumbnails           Write all thumbnail image formats to disk
--list-thumbnails                Simulate and list all available thumbnail
                                formats

Verbosity / Simulation Options:
-q, --quiet                      Activate quiet mode
--no-warnings                    Ignore warnings
-s, --simulate                   Do not download the video and do not write
                                anything to disk
--skip-download                  Do not download the video
-g, --get-url                    Simulate, quiet but print URL
-e, --get-title                  Simulate, quiet but print title
--get-id                         Simulate, quiet but print id
--get-thumbnail                  Simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
--get-description                Simulate, quiet but print video description
--get-duration                   Simulate, quiet but print video length
--get-filename                   Simulate, quiet but print output filename
--get-format                     Simulate, quiet but print output format
-j, --dump-json                  Simulate, quiet but print JSON information.
                                See the "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a description
                                of available keys.
-J, --dump-single-json           Simulate, quiet but print JSON information
                                for each command-line argument. If the URL
                                refers to a playlist, dump the whole
                                playlist information in a single line.
--print-json                     Be quiet and print the video information as
                                JSON (video is still being downloaded).
--newline                        Output progress bar as new lines
--no-progress                    Do not print progress bar
--console-title                  Display progress in console titlebar
-v, --verbose                    Print various debugging information
--dump-pages                     Print downloaded pages encoded using base64
                                to debug problems (very verbose)
--write-pages                    Write downloaded intermediary pages to
                                files in the current directory to debug
                                problems
--print-traffic                  Display sent and read HTTP traffic
-C, --call-home                  Contact the youtube-dl server for debugging
--no-call-home                   Do NOT contact the youtube-dl server for
                                debugging

Workarounds:
--encoding ENCODING              Force the specified encoding (experimental)
--no-check-certificate           Suppress HTTPS certificate validation
--prefer-insecure                Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve
                                information about the video. (Currently
                                supported only for YouTube)
--user-agent UA                  Specify a custom user agent
--referer URL                    Specify a custom referer, use if the video
                                access is restricted to one domain
--add-header FIELD:VALUE         Specify a custom HTTP header and its value,
                                separated by a colon ':'. You can use this
                                option multiple times
--bidi-workaround                Work around terminals that lack
                                bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv
                                or fribidi executable in PATH
--sleep-interval SECONDS         Number of seconds to sleep before each
                                download when used alone or a lower bound
                                of a range for randomized sleep before each
                                download (minimum possible number of
                                seconds to sleep) when used along with
                                --max-sleep-interval.
--max-sleep-interval SECONDS     Upper bound of a range for randomized sleep
                                before each download (maximum possible
                                number of seconds to sleep). Must only be
                                used along with --min-sleep-interval.

Video Format Options:
-f, --format FORMAT              Video format code, see the "FORMAT
                                SELECTION" for all the info
--all-formats                    Download all available video formats
--prefer-free-formats            Prefer free video formats unless a specific
                                one is requested
-F, --list-formats               List all available formats of requested
                                videos
--youtube-skip-dash-manifest     Do not download the DASH manifests and
                                related data on YouTube videos
--merge-output-format FORMAT     If a merge is required (e.g.
                                bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given
                                container format. One of mkv, mp4, ogg,
                                webm, flv. Ignored if no merge is required

Subtitle Options:
--write-sub                      Write subtitle file
--write-auto-sub                 Write automatically generated subtitle file
                                (YouTube only)
--all-subs                       Download all the available subtitles of the
                                video
--list-subs                      List all available subtitles for the video
--sub-format FORMAT              Subtitle format, accepts formats
                                preference, for example: "srt" or
                                "ass/srt/best"
--sub-lang LANGS                 Languages of the subtitles to download
                                (optional) separated by commas, use --list-
                                subs for available language tags

Authentication Options:
-u, --username USERNAME          Login with this account ID
-p, --password PASSWORD          Account password. If this option is left
                                out, youtube-dl will ask interactively.
-2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR        Two-factor authentication code
-n, --netrc                      Use .netrc authentication data
--video-password PASSWORD        Video password (vimeo, smotri, youku)

Adobe Pass Options:
--ap-mso MSO                     Adobe Pass multiple-system operator (TV
                                provider) identifier, use --ap-list-mso for
                                a list of available MSOs
--ap-username USERNAME           Multiple-system operator account login
--ap-password PASSWORD           Multiple-system operator account password.
                                If this option is left out, youtube-dl will
                                ask interactively.
--ap-list-mso                    List all supported multiple-system
                                operators

Post-processing Options:
-x, --extract-audio              Convert video files to audio-only files
                                (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or
                                avprobe)
--audio-format FORMAT            Specify audio format: "best", "aac",
                                "flac", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", "vorbis", or
                                "wav"; "best" by default; No effect without
                                -x
--audio-quality QUALITY          Specify ffmpeg/avconv audio quality, insert
                                a value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse)
                                for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K
                                (default 5)
--recode-video FORMAT            Encode the video to another format if
                                necessary (currently supported:
                                mp4|flv|ogg|webm|mkv|avi)
--postprocessor-args ARGS        Give these arguments to the postprocessor
-k, --keep-video                 Keep the video file on disk after the post-
                                processing; the video is erased by default
--no-post-overwrites             Do not overwrite post-processed files; the
                                post-processed files are overwritten by
                                default
--embed-subs                     Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4,
                                webm and mkv videos)
--embed-thumbnail                Embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art
--add-metadata                   Write metadata to the video file
--metadata-from-title FORMAT     Parse additional metadata like song title /
                                artist from the video title. The format
                                syntax is the same as --output. Regular
                                expression with named capture groups may
                                also be used. The parsed parameters replace
                                existing values. Example: --metadata-from-
                                title "%(artist)s - %(title)s" matches a
                                title like "Coldplay - Paradise". Example
                                (regex): --metadata-from-title
                                "(?P<artist>.+?) - (?P<title>.+)"
--xattrs                         Write metadata to the video file's xattrs
                                (using dublin core and xdg standards)
--fixup POLICY                   Automatically correct known faults of the
                                file. One of never (do nothing), warn (only
                                emit a warning), detect_or_warn (the
                                default; fix file if we can, warn
                                otherwise)
--prefer-avconv                  Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the
                                postprocessors
--prefer-ffmpeg                  Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the
                                postprocessors (default)
--ffmpeg-location PATH           Location of the ffmpeg/avconv binary;
                                either the path to the binary or its
                                containing directory.
--exec CMD                       Execute a command on the file after
                                downloading, similar to find's -exec
                                syntax. Example: --exec 'adb push {}
                                /sdcard/Music/ && rm {}'
--convert-subs FORMAT            Convert the subtitles to other format
                                (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt|lrc)

 

almost reponded to a 2 year old thread then....
shit....



while im here.
just duckduckgo for the latest one. they get taken down so fast that the only option is to just search for the latest one.
most of them work the same.

 

Of course man... I feel a bit stupid that I didn't realized this by myself, having it all the time right in front of my noze...

Thank you

 

Last word,

I downloaded 555 audios from a playlist I constructed on the long term, all these are songs I play bass on, for different reasons,
JDownloader method is very easy, as I don't need conversion.

Thank you all for your help

 

use ssyoutube.com, just add ss in front of youtube to download videos and mp3s from Youtube

 

ZeTwitch is a Twitch video/clip downloader that provides you with the easiest way to download Twitch clips and videos.

 

add pp after youtubepp.com .. voila
https://www.youtubepp.com/watch?v=B569w-_ReHs

 

YTDLPro (latest version 10.15.1)
https://www.ytdlpro.com/



Key Features
Download videos from YouTube and other video sites.
Increase download speeds by up to 500%.
Download multiple videos at the same time.
Pause and resume downloads at any time.
Preview video content while downloading.
Convert video and audio files between different formats.
Play video and audio files in various formats.
Can download audio in webm or OPUS format.
Can be set to upload download engine /MX_ytdlp-6/ daily.

 

Last edited by a moderator: Feb 17, 2024

So this is basically youtubedl / yt-dlp with a GUI, but not open source and free of charge?

I'd just get yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) but that's just me.

 

That version hasn't been updated since 2022. There is a fork of it that's up to date, and has a better GUI.

https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui

Hitomi Downloader is another option.

https://github.com/KurtBestor/Hitomi-Downloader

 

i've used Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express for years. I try to kick him a couple of bucks when he puts out a new version/upgrade to fix things google breaks on youtube. its good to support to keep it working. its so damn handy....

mainly use it to download mp3 as 128k for streaming audio talking heads etc.

and 256k for music. - find some interesting remixes on youtube and of course somebody plays a vinyl version of something old thats interesting every now and then.
it functions as a browser plugin

Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express


No# 1 Rated Youtube Video Downloader for firefox web-browser with MP3 and Full-HD downloads. Instant, one-click Youtube video downloader with high-quality 256Kbps/128Kbps MP3 and Full-HD video downloading options.

 

yt-dlp is a command line utility. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Make sure FFMPEG is on your path, otherwise it can't convert the codec for the audio and seperate the audio of the video.
Example to extract audio:
yt-dlp -x --audio-format wav https://www.brotube.com/watch?v=-VZL7YVDuOg