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This article was nominated for deletion on 4 September 2018. The result of the discussion was delete.

I don’t think 190.83.207.181 is a good editor.

Check the edit history for youtube-dl. I accidentally edited on top of that so I had to undo MY edit to undo his. Accidentally got the numbers wrong. Still learning Wikipedia.

But the point is that I don’t think he is a good editor. Open his contributions page and see what other edit he did. (Yes, he only made two edits.) His talk page also doesn’t exist, but it could be just because nothing was on it in the first place. Anyway, can someone look into this guy? 67.172.89.96 (talk) 03:53, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is the "Example code" section necessary?

I think most of it counts as WP:NOTMANUAL, and the sentence Best quality video can be downloaded with -f best option. is factually incorrect as that doesn't always result in the best quality output, especially on YouTube videos.

Also, it should probably be renamed to something like "Example commands" or "Example usage", because it only has commands, and no code. 91.129.108.67 (talk) 18:25, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Defunct program, please add a reference to yt-dlp (a commonly used fork)

App has not been updated since December 17, 2021 and YouTube videos are no longer downloadable via the app.Andrezlatin (talk) 13:24, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

While the most recent release is stale, development continues on the main-line Git branch and nightly builds (supposedly) get generated every twenty-four hours. 75.238.52.155 (talk) 17:15, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Example code

For downloading video or playlist:

youtube-dl <url>

Path of the output can be specified as: (file name to be included in the path)

youtube-dl -o <path> <url>

To see list of all available file formats and sizes:

youtube-dl -F <url>

The video can be downloaded by selecting the format code from the list or typing the format manually:

youtube-dl -f <format/code> <url>

Best quality video can be downloaded with -f best option. Also, the quality of audio and video streams can be specified separately and merged with the + operator.^[1]

A portion of the video can be downloaded with the help of ffmpeg.^[2]

Shubjt 15:42, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "README.md". GitHub. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
^ "linux - How to download portion of video with youtube-dl command?". Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.

Court ruling

https://yt-dl.org/ responds with "Due to a ruling of the Hamburg Regional Court, access to this website is blocked." The ruling linked at https://openjur.de/u/2466945.html is in German, perhaps a native speaker can summarise it here. Vicarage (talk) 11:24, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[:3-1] "README.md". GitHub. Retrieved June 1, 2022.

[2] "linux - How to download portion of video with youtube-dl command?". Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.

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