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Now, it's all under the notebook umbrella. Seems to be appropriate as it is just my notes after all. I also updated some notes from there. I didn't keep track of what it is this time. Something about more learning notes extracted from my "Learning how to learn" course notes and then some. Lack of time and hurriness just makes it difficult to track but it should be under version control already.
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Command-line: youtube-dl
One of the archivists' best friends. At least you don't have to go to those shady YouTube conversion sites anymore when you have a complete list of other video sites you can download from.
For complete information, you can always inspect youtube-dl.1 manual page.
Synopsis
youtube-dl [OPTIONS...] [URLS...]Options
--add-metadataadds metadata to the resulting file after download--audio-format [EXTENSION]downloads the video with the select format of "opus", "mp3", "opus", and "vorbis"; but there is also the convenient "best" option--audio-quality [QUALITY]sets the quality of the audio from 0 to 9, best to worst respectively; bitrates are also accepted (e.g.,320K,1M)-c, --continueresumes the download; useful if the download process is interrupted--config-location [PATH]set the config to be used; useful for local configs with specific options-F, --list-formatprints a list of format available for downloading--list-extractorsprints a list of supported sites and their specific features.--format [QUALITY]downloads the video with the format shown in--list-format; there are convenient options such asbestaudioandbestvideoreferring to the best quality it could find-j, --dump-jsoncompletes a dry-run and prints in JSON format-o, --output [STRING]formats the resulting filename of the tracks to be downloaded--no-overwritethrows an error if the file already exists which is handy for scripts--write-subwrites the subtitle file into disk-x, --extract-audioextracts only the audio track
Output formats
For --output option, there are a lot of things to consider naming your files.
You may want to automate them yourself but youtube-dl has plenty of options from the get-go.
The following code is the sensible default output string.
%(playlist_index)02d-%(title)s.%(ext)sA few of the usual stuff I use:
title(string) is the title of the trackext(string) is the extension to be used; pretty much recommended to use it
A lot of the things I have to do is to download multiple tracks from an album or playlist. Unfortunately, these are often different from one site to another.
playlist_index(number) indicates the position of the track in a playlist. These are usually used from YouTube and Soundcloud playlists.track_number(number) is the position of the track from an album. Usually, these are used from Bandcamp and Vimeo playlists.
Examples
Here is an entryway into your newfound archiving habit. Enjoy! :)
Download the thumbnail and the audio of the video
Very simple. Very useful as most of the thumbnails can go to high resolution and if you need them for some reason.
youtube-dl --write-thumbnail --extract-audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy9VvdaLuSsDownload an entire album
Though, you should look at the supported sites if it supports downloading an album out of the URL. In this example, we have Bandcamp.
youtube-dl --output '%(track_number)02d-%(title)s.%(ext)s' --format bestaudio https://gametal.bandcamp.com/album/side-quests-vol-3Specific video download requirements
In this example, I want to download a video with a width of 1080px and the best video and audio at 320Kbit/s. Oh, and the video should be in MP4 and the audio in Opus.
This is will only succeed if the format is available to download which you can do with --list-format.
youtube-dl --format 'bestvideo[width=1080,ext=mp4]+bestaudio[abr=320K,ext=opus]' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy9VvdaLuSs