youtube-dl - download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms

To download youtube videos $ youtube-dl https://url_to_download

To update Youtube-dl $ 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