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edit: Guys, I now yt-dlp is the way to go, but is there a gui front end for yt-dlp with all the options that I get on cli? Or else, just advice me on how to use the yt-dlp cli

I need the best audio-quality and I want it to be webm and want it to be downloaded with transcripts too, so what should I do?


I tried this snap video-downloader and it was able to download a webm file and it's amazing. I love it. But, I am not sure if it's the best quality I can get. I was wondering what Linux native software you used to download Youtube audio in it's best quality.

btw, when I downloaded the .webm file, I got it along with the transcribed text and it plays in the place where video subs play and it's quite nice.


Something else

https://www.makeuseof.com/download-youtube-videos-yt-dlp-linux-terminal/

Removes all sponsors and downloads the best audio into Videos/yt-dlp

cd Videos/yt-dlp &* youtube-dlp yt-dlp -x --audio-quality=0 --sponsorblock-mark all --sponsorblock-remove all [YOUTUBE-URL] && cd ~

sudo snap video-downloader

Video-downloader snap downloads the package Video-Downloader and this can be opened through terminal (you can create a .desktop file through menulibre for this) And all videos with varying degree of quality can be downloaded here. But, this doesn't include sponsorblocks so idk, use yt-dlp here too, but I don't download videos so I don't really care for this.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another vote for yt-dlp

It works with ffmpeg and you can choose the quality you want to download from Youtube. Also its nice if you want to record a livestream as its being broadcast. Its also not limited to just Youtube either, it seems to work on lots of sites.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

amazing. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

hey, I am sorry, is there a gui for yt-dlp with all the options it has in the cli? I found it very confusing to read and understand the whole read.md

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are some. I’ve used this one and some other I couldn’t find right now

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

thank you mate!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Compare with yt-dlp from GitHub. It works from the command line and you can control the quality level you want.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

yt-dlp

thank you I will give it a go

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thank you I will give it a go

edit: I need a gui which has all the features of the yt-dlp cli but is easier to understand, does this give you any ideas?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Now that you mention it, I wish I had the same!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I suggest Parabolic, it's very feature rich, but I don't think you'll ever find a frontend with all options, as the devs need to catch up, design and also consider which are important and leave others out, so they don't bloat the interface making it impossible to parse. At most you'll get an option to create shortcuts for custom commands (YTDLnis does this on Android).

Anyway, regardless of the application, I think you'd get the same quality, both should try to get the best available by default

I also made a small list some time ago https://codeberg.org/quazar-omega/awesome-yt-dlp if you want to help add more apps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

thank you very much! I was looking for this!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I use YouTube links which gives you direct links to the media. It's a userscript so you'll need the ability to run those. Also it doesn't seem to play nicely with premium, but that's easily worked around by letting it run in incognito tabs. Even with the quirks it's way better than any middleman download site.

I also have yt-dlp which is also awesome, but works differently. I do use both depending on what I'm trying to accomplish.. for a single audio or video file YouTube Links is more convenient, for anything more than that yt-dlp is the way to go.

[–] grill 5 points 1 year ago

I use jdownloader2. Mostly because I never learned to use yt-dlp.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well there is clipgrab if you want a GUI downloader.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

thank you but imma stick with yt-dlp for a while now, I am looking for a gui with it in the backend now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use yt-dlg as a GUI for yt-dl.

I find it works pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just used chat gpt to teach me the basics of yt-dlp. Worked great! Can do it with other programs too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In android seal is pretty good and on fdroid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

StreamFab YouTube Downloader?? it has lifetime free version, which can download 720p youtube videos. I think it meets basic hd demands on mobile, but for 8k quality, you have to purchase

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

140 is always the best quality, except when it has a number tacked on for randomly ordered alternate languages.