snippets/apps/yt-dlp.md

yt-dlp

Install

latest yt-dlp binary

curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o yt-dlp && chmod a+rx yt-dlp 

packaged dependencies

sudo apt-get install curl ffmpeg jq 

deno js runtime binary

curl -fsSL "https://dl.deno.land/release/$(curl -fsSL https://dl.deno.land/release-latest.txt)/deno-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip" -o /tmp/deno.zip && unzip -o -j -d . /tmp/deno.zip && chmod +x ./deno && rm -f /tmp/deno.zip

Use deno with yt-dlp

./yt-dlp --js-runtimes deno:./deno 

Usage

Get all playlists from channel

Copy from YouTube channel page all playlists using firefox console and store in list.txt

Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(  "ytd-grid-playlist-renderer.style-scope > div:nth-child(2) > h3:nth-child(1) > a:nth-child(1)")).map(el => el.href).join("\n");copy(out);

Download all playlists

#!/bin/bash
while IFS= read -r url || [ -n "$url" ]; do
  [ -z "$url" ] && continue
  ./yt-dlp \
    --js-runtimes deno:./deno \
    -f bestaudio \
    --extract-audio \
    --audio-format mp3 \
    --audio-quality 192K \
    --embed-thumbnail \
    --add-metadata \
    --metadata-from-title "%(artist)s - %(title)s" \
    --retries 10 \
    --fragment-retries 10 \
    --continue \
    -o "%(playlist_title)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" \
    "$url"
done < list.txt