yt >_dl

A feature-rich command-line Video/Audio Downloader for macOS/Android/Fedora, based on yt-dlp.

Purpose

• This script automates the process of downloading video/audio using yt-dlp.

Feature

• based on yt-dlp that support downloading video/audio from 1,500+ of website
• written in bash shell script
• Aria2 as downloader for high quality video instedad of default (curl)
• SponsorBlock Filtering for audio source
• Embed Metadata to audio file
• Thumbnail as covert art
• Crop Thumbnail into square for YT audio downloads
• Playlist Name as Album Metadata if data is not present
• Custom Audio/Video Quality
• MP3 as Audio Format
• Save Subtitles into .vtt or .srt file
• Mark YT sponsorblock segments as chapters for video
• Download SD Video Format in MP4 and HD /FULL HD /FHD /HQ /UHD Video in MKV for Smaller file Sized
• Preferred Video Codec VP09 for UHD/ HQ video and AV01 Codec for FULL HD/ HD /SD video
• Support up to highest quality such as 8K
• Download images as PNG/JPG/WEBP/GIF from various websites (cloudflare unprotect site only), tested on YT and YT Music.
• Built in Updating feature
• User Friendly and FOSS
• Smaller size script (lessthen 40 KB), allowing you to save space on your device

Prerequisites

• macOS / Android / Fedora device with working internet connection.

Usage

Open macOS/Fedora Terminal or Termux and run the script with the following command:

curl -L --progress-bar -o "$HOME/.ytdl.sh" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arghya339/ytdl/refs/heads/main/bash/ytdl.sh" && bash ~/.ytdl.sh

Run ytdl with these commands in Terminal:

ytdl

Tip

Please uncheck Resotre text when reopening windows option in macOS Terminal > Settings > Profiles > Window

Note

This script was tested on an Intel Mac running macOS Sonoma (14) with Terminal v2.14(453) with bash v3.2.57.

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Seal

ytdlnis

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yt-dlp-gui qualitySelectionNotAvailable

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yt-dlp-gui

yt-dlp-gui

Dependencies

"bash" [GNU 3.0], "brew" [BSD 2.0], "Python" [PSF / GPL], "yt-dlp" [GNU 3.0], "ffmpeg" [GPL 2.0], "imagemagick" [Apache 2.0], "Aria2" [GPL 2.0], "jq" [MIT]

"VLC" [GPL 2.0], "Aural Player" [MIT]

"FreeTube" [GNU 3.0], "YT Music" [MIT]

How it works (Demo on YouTube)

Devoloper info

• Powered by yt-dlp
• Developer: @arghya339