Stop right now. This will all end in tears. You’ll become a developer and spend the rest of your life fixing bugs. You can still get out.

Nice! I did mine as an alias:

alias yt='yt-dlp --remote-components ejs:github -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4"'

And then just yt [URL] downloads the thing.

You all forgot to add the best yt-dlp option: --sponsorblock-remove all

It’s a slippery slope. Soon you’ll be using Vim and ordering thighsocks on the Internet.

Guess we’re sharing scripts now. I have a script that downloads playlists as MP3s and keep an archive.

#!/usr/bin/env sh

browser_cookies="firefox:1cvnyph7.YouTube TV"

download() {
	url="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=%241"
	dir=$2
	archive_name=$3

	yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --embed-thumbnail --embed-metadata --cookies-from-browser "$browser_cookies" --download-archive "archives/$archive_name.txt" -P "$dir" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$url"
}

download PLPzniwWWCSjVQteWPqVvyu8SQsrStVYwZ high-quality-rips/ rips
download PLPzniwWWCSjWZj3-DAOh8ZKrsVReP_Ksm good-playlist/ picks

Here is a script I wrote:

~/bin 0s  
> cat vget  
#!/usr/bin/env fish  
yt-dlp --embed-metadata --write-subs --embed-subs --write-thumbnail --prefer-free-formats -f "[height<=1080]" $argv  

Amazing.

Injust switched a year ago and now I finally discovered bash scripts.

It is so mich easier, I also automated some manual tasks with Python scripts to name my PDFs, never would have done that with windows.

And the best part of it, it’s actually fun and I want to even do more.

As always I have to thank DJT, for make me switch. 🤣

I self host Pinchflat and have set it up to monitor one of my own yt playlists. Then if I want to download anything on mobile or desktop I just save it to that playlist and it’s done.

No offense, but I’m seeing a lot of useless scripts here. You can simply put these option in yt-dlp.conf and then just run yt-dlp “url”.

this isn’t perfect but i made one when i wanted to fetch a video for a specific resolution (because i prefer 480)

ytgrab() {  
  local id="$1"  
  local res="${2:-480}" # default to 480  
  local url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%24id"  

  # fetch formats  
  local fmt  
  fmt=$(yt-dlp -F --cookies-from-browser vivaldi "$url")  

  # printing the format output  
  echo "$fmt"  

  # pick video format matching the requested resolution  
  local vfmt  
  vfmt=$(echo "$fmt" | awk -v r="${res}p" '$0 ~ r && /video/ {print $1}' | head -n1)  

  # pick best m4a audio  
  local afmt  
  afmt=$(echo "$fmt" | awk '/m4a/ && /audio/ {print $1}' | head -n1)  

  # safety check  
  if [ -z "$vfmt" ] || [ -z "$afmt" ]; then  
    echo "Could not find matching formats (video ${res}p or m4a audio)."  
    return 1  
  fi  

  echo fetching: yt-dlp -f ${vfmt}+${afmt} --cookies-from-browser vivaldi --write-subs --no-write-auto-subs --sub-lang "en.*" $url  
  yt-dlp -f "${vfmt}+${afmt}" --write-subs --cookies-from-browser vivaldi --no-write-auto-subs --sub-lang "en.*" "$url"  
}  

You’ve got me beat. I just have a text file with some common usage examples in it.

I love things like this, makes it so easy to learn when it’s a really simple to understand and explicit implementation of a high level feature (read input, pass to command)

awesome! I never would have thought to make something like that.

You could make it an alias and shorten the number of keystrokes

I prefer keeping my aliases in ~/.bash_aliases, which is sourced in my ~/.bashrc, ie

. ~/.bash_aliases

Then you would just need to source your bashrc to load it the first time.

this is neat, thanks!