$ sudo youtube-dl -U

To download video or playlist with a custom name

$ sudo youtube-dl -U 'my custom name videos' https://www.youtube.com/url

$ youtube-dl -o '~/Downloads/my custom name videos' https://www.youtube.com/url

$ youtube-dl -o '%(title)s by %(uploader)s on %(upload_date)s in %(playlist)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/url

To download multiple videos

$ youtube-dl <url1> <url2> <url3>

To download from a file

$ cat url.txt

<url1>

<url2>

<url3>

<url4>

$ youtube-dl -a url.txt

To download audio-only from a video

$ youtube-dl -x https://www.youtube.com/url

To download mp3 formats

$ youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/url

To download video with description, metadata, annotations, subtitles and thumbnail

$ youtube-dl --write-description --write-info-json --write-annotations --write-sub --write-thumbnail https://www.youtube.com/url

To List all available formats of video or playlist

$ youtube-dl --list-formats https://www.youtube.com/url

$ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/url

To display the size of YouTube videos

$ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/url

To Download videos in your preferred format, say for example MP4

$ youtube-dl -f mp4 https://www.youtube.com/url

To Set size limit for videos

$ youtube-dl --min-filesize 200M <youtube_url>

$ youtube-dl --max-filesize 1000M <youtube_url>

To Set download speed limit

$ youtube-dl -r 100K <url>

To resume downloads

$ youtube-dl  -c  <url>

To display help options

$ youtube-dl --help

regards,

T.Dhanasekar