WARNING: [youtube] 0uDy0cV2CSU: n challenge solving failed: Some formats may be missing. Ensure you have a supported JavaScript runtime and challenge solver script distribution installed. Review any warnings presented before this message. For more details, refer to  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS

Any idea why? This is happening for videos that can be viewed without an account when using a browser, so there's probably a way around this.

First, v.redd.it started giving 403 to yt-dlp, but linking the thread still worked. Now linking the thread also fails.

I tried using --username and --password, but got 403 even though they are valid.

Next I used --cookies-from-browser and it failed with "Your IP address is unable to access the Reddit API" lol.

All the while, I can still play the video in the browser.

Im not sure what i am doing wrong here. Im trying to download a youtube channel and everything works just fine except for the fact that when downloading each individual video it says:

"WARNING: [youtube] DaSsVamagdg: Some web client https formats have been skipped as they are missing a URL. YouTube is forcing SABR streaming for this client. See for more details"

I tried adding yt-dlp nightly and that did not work

I want to download videos from a few channels and am just trying not to push it too hard. What do you do to stay safe from YT ban? Is there a limit? Number of videos every day, or number of concurrent connections, or the speed of download, or the size of the download? What attracts YT bot attention?

Help me out, please. I don't want to get banned. Just want to do it safely. I also have YT premium.

im downloading a playlist and for some reason its just constantly skipping and retrying it, im even using the cookies, but it keeps saying fragment not found, and it looks something like this

Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10051] A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network.

223 videos.

I figured a longer sleep would be enough like so, but idk if I can do more. Each video is downloading in like 30 seconds (longer videos are maybe 20 minutes or less) which seems problematic?

My command:

./yt-dlp -t mp4 -S “res:1080” --sleep-interval 20 --max-sleep-interval 30 URL

-S “res:1080” also isn’t needed because -t mp4 already sets a video to 1080p, right?

I do need to do this for shorts too. It’s all educational. If it wasn’t for this fact, I wouldn’t even think about pulling an entire channel.

Thanks.

Edit:

I’m not sure how to put the command into one of those grey boxes on an iPhone. Sorry about the way it looks in the post.

Update:

So from the one channel, I grabbed 800+ videos, as well as 500+ shorts without any problems. One single video ended up being partly downloaded but I just grabbed that individually in the end.

I later went on to pull videos from another channel, (still without issue) which in that, then concluded the job I set out to accomplish.

While timers like this can very well take time to finish each and every download, I think it’s a small price to pay for passive downloading without fear of any form of ban. I wasn’t rate limited either. This was the smoothest time I’ve ever had with a whole channel. I wouldn’t say it even took a day overall.

yt-dlp, you’ve done it again. Nothing but praise to the devs.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day! :)

Also I tried the following commands:

-f "((bv*[fps<=30]/bv*)[height<=1080])"

yt-dlp --postprocessor-args "ffmpeg:\"-filter:v fps=30\"" --recode-video mp4 URL

yt-dlp -f "((bv*[fps<=30]/bv*)[height<=1080])" URL

But they didn't seem to work unfortunately, I am using YTDLnis (Android) selected 1080p60 (1080p30 isn't available).

Thanks again!

youtube got over forgiving downloading. My output for youtube has been like this SYSOUT snippet since last September . It works fine for other video sites --

c:\youtube-dl_ 7:04:29.40_>yt-dlp --write-subs --no-warnings --socket-timeout 3600 -i -x --audio-quality 0 --no-warnings ""

Deprecated Feature: Support for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 has been deprecated. See

es/10086 for details.

You may stop receiving updates on this version at any time!

[youtube] Extracting URL:

[youtube] EEwpth0GcNo: Downloading webpage

[youtube] EEwpth0GcNo: Downloading ios player API JSON

[youtube] EEwpth0GcNo: Downloading mweb player API JSON

[youtube] EEwpth0GcNo: Downloading player b95b0e7a

[youtube] EEwpth0GcNo: Downloading m3u8 information

[info] EEwpth0GcNo: Downloading 1 format(s): 251\

[info] There are no subtitles for the requested languages

ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

c:\youtube-dl_ 7:04:36.68_>

I guess Youtube restricted my IP address since 2025-12-07. I cannot grab anything from Youtube without using cookies. If I keep downloading videos off Youtube regularly, will this ban end up staying "permanent"?

I cannot get an idea of how strict Youtube's security has become. For the last few months, I have been downloading batches of around 100-150 videos using JDownloader, and downloading smaller batches of 2160p/VP9-only videos with yt-dlp. With both programs, I only ever downloaded one video at a time. So, I don't know what finally did me in.

If I keep downloading videos one at a time with cookies, is there a risk of my account getting blocked?

How come these are the options on a youtube video:

As you can see, the video is in 1080p but without audio. The best I can do for a combined audio/video file is 360p. Am I supposed to download the audio and video separately and merge them or something? Does the youtube webapp do that on the fly?

Also, obviously I am using the Stacher gui, but I don't think that is the issue.

When using gallery-dl (Instagram/X/Reddit), do I need to use cookies command every time or only when the site forces a login? My main concern is quality. If I download as a guest, will I get lower quality images compared to using a logged in session?

I'm also wondering if yt-dlp has this same problem. Do I need cookies to get the best video that yt-dlp chooses for me, or is that unnecessary?

I keep getting the following message: "Error: WARNING: [youtube] xf_mUZZe3AY: Some web client https formats have been skipped as they are missing a URL. YouTube is forcing SABR streaming for this client. See for more details" Is this happening to anyone else? Please update this!

So I was writing a comment and I figured maybe it's better to make an OP for it, here is the original comment with the points I want in this OP struck-through:

If say I install Brave, if I log in on YouTube on my main account there and then right away exit, --cookies-from-browser brave would use those cookies? Would I be logged out on Firefox if I login elsewhere? If I use the same account on Firefox while it's downloading using Brave's cookies, would it update for yt-dlp or is it per-browser so it's fine?

I did have a line about asking how to specify cookies location, but I think it was pointless to ask. I will try that myself. Though if no one knows answers to the questions above I guess I will have to try it all anyway. I suppose I can skip having to run a different web browser if someone knows it doesn't work the way I'd like. A minor convenience. Also relatively less data travels asking in text than downloading an entire web browser. So there is that too. It's negligible in the grand scheme of things, but not nothing.

And for a throwaway account..if I make or use one as I apparently have one that's dusting..And I want the cookies to count as being of older age and allowed to access age-restricted stuff, one of the ways is using card details. No need to dump a photo of myself on the internet unnecessarily with that route.

Let's say that's the only option I consider, would it matter if I use the same card details as on my main account? If I get temp/perma banned on the throwaway account, would it affect my main account? I've heard of virtual cards, is that something I could use? Or do I need to use one of the other options for identifying? Like the photo one, but I use a fictional character? Surely there is other data out there that outs me as the same guy, so maybe there is no point trying and I should use the same card for both accounts?

First post here, been trouble shooting this for a few days and I'm starting to go crazy.

Background.
Windows randomly blocked ytdlp.exe after working flawlessly for weeks. I had to learn python and am now running ytdlp through a Python script as a workaround.

Finally fine tuned my script and it's been going great however there's this ONE playlist that I cannot download. I've come to the conclusion that it's not accessible via any API player.

- Youtube found the cookies
- YTDLP found the video
- JSON successfully completed the challenge
- I even have a premium subscription right now.

YTDLP doesnt seem to gain access... I get status:Error for web_creator, web player, tv player. These videos are viewable as a guest on browser and smart TV, and are NOT private. For reference, these are old Korean TV shows that I'd like to archive.

It seems there's no API player access...

Has anyone experienced this? Are there any work arounds or should I just give up on this.
Would appreciate any direction or suggestions provided!!!!

I have a playlist of 1300 videos, some are 1h long. I'm a newbie with ytdlp so I'm not quite sure what and how to do it. I did some research but I still have questions.

1. Can I download the playlist to a pendrive? I don't have enough space on my laptop.

2. I read that someone got banned after downloading 200 videos. I don't want the same thing happen to me. Do I have to download just a small part every day or can I download everything at once? Is the default waiting time enough? If I download small parts then I'll have a hassle with indexes.

3. A command question. Maybe a stupid one. Sorry. Does the order of the commands matter and does the link have to always be last? By the way what code language is that?

4. Last one. I have a few songs on the playlist that were either deleted or set to private. I read about the --cookies-from-browser option but I can't figure out how to use it.

This project saw the light of day on December 25, 2025. I had an idea in my head... why should I have all the commands in my head or written down somewhere, when I could create something that would simply take them automatically or allow me to choose more quickly? So I set out to create the structure of the project.

I divided “setup.sh” for the automatic download of all the necessary dependencies (yt-dlp, ffmpeg, deno) to avoid using the system's own, which is sometimes quite outdated, all coming from official sources and with SHA256 verification.

And “download.sh” would be the brain of it all. I started from the bottom with very simple things, but now I've evolved to a kind of TUI where the user can be much more comfortable and doesn't need to be very technical. Here's the link to the project in case anyone is interested! I'm totally open to advice, future improvements, and any critical comments are welcome.

(I am now also focusing on trying to bring it to Rust, in another parallel project, and greatly improving the user experience and adding features).

[CHANGELOG]

Currently testing an alternative in terms of design and simplicity.

How do I stop my download from skipping fragments? Is there a certain command I can use to make the download wait like 10seconds before skipping a fragment of the livestream I watch?

I used to use Kodi on a Raspberry Pi to watch my saved videos. It served me well for awhile, but unfortunately yt-dlp switching to AV1 by default has thrown a wrench in the works: for some reason playing any AV1 video with Kodi causes it to immediately crash and I have no idea why, so I have to watch a lot of my more recent downloads with VLC (which works fine on the Pi, go figure). This is all a bit ridiculous. How do those of you deeper into this watch your videos?

The following is an example of checking for all available updates via winget, but it does support selective updating. I am using this as a more detailed example of what to potentially expect when checking for system-wide upgrades:

C:\>winget upgrade --all --verbose --ignore-warnings

Name              Id                 Version           Available         Source
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mozilla Maintena… Mozilla.Maintenan… 141.0.2           145.0.1           winget
Metatogger 7.6    SylvainRougeaux.M… 7.6.5.1           7.7.0.0           winget
yt-dlp-nightly    yt-dlp.yt-dlp.nig… 2025.12.24.233043 2025.12.29.233040 winget
3 upgrades available.

The initial output is after winget performed an audit of all available updates. Next, it checks the dependency requirements for those packages/updates. If any are found and not already installed, they will be installed.

Installing dependencies:
This package requires the following dependencies:
  - Packages
      Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64
      DenoLand.Deno
      yt-dlp.FFmpeg

It says "this package", but it represents the entirety of the upgrade request as a whole - not an individual application package.

(1/3) Found Mozilla Maintenance Service [Mozilla.MaintenanceService] Version 145.0.1
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://firefox-ci-tc.services.mozilla.com/api/queue/v1/task/SvvoCyOmS6CeYuLSshBtAQ/runs/0/artifacts/public/build/target.zip
  ██████████████████████████████   119 MB /  119 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Extracting archive...
Successfully extracted archive
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(2/3) Found Metatogger [SylvainRougeaux.Metatogger] Version 7.7.0.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://api.luminescence-software.org/download.php?software=metatogger&installer=msi&version=7700
  ██████████████████████████████  99.0 MB / 99.0 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(3/3) Found yt-dlp-nightly [yt-dlp.yt-dlp.nightly] Version 2025.12.29.233040
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds/releases/download/2025.12.29.233040/yt-dlp.exe
  ██████████████████████████████  17.5 MB / 17.5 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Command line alias added: "yt-dlp"
Successfully installed

And that's it. Everything that had an update available via winget has been upgraded. Any updates to dependencies would have been upgraded as well. If any of the dependencies had updates, they would have been in the primary list and would have been upgraded as well. In this example, the dependency check verified that there were installed for all of the packages being upgraded.

Note: There will always be times where the package available in the winget repository will not be cutting-edge latest availability to what is in the GitHub repository. yt-dlp.exe can still be independently upgraded with the '-U' option. The same with deno.exe with its 'upgrade' option.

The upgrade of yt-dlp again makes certain that yt-dlp is in the system PATH. where is states, "command line alias added". winget does this by adding aliases to a specific winget directory, and that directory is added to the system PATH. The winget alias directory is located here:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links

Deno also creates an alias there. However, the specific version of FFmpeg that yt-dlp uses as a dependency (yt-dlp.FFmpeg) does not create an alias. If you run 'winget search ffmpeg', you will see that there are many variations of FFmpeg available for installation. A popular one is packaged by GyanD, and would be installed via winget with this command:

C:\>winget install Gyan.FFmpeg

Here is an example of what that output will look like:

Found FFmpeg [Gyan.FFmpeg] Version 8.0.1
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://github.com/GyanD/codexffmpeg/releases/download/8.0.1/ffmpeg-8.0.1-full_build.zip
  ██████████████████████████████   223 MB /  223 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Extracting archive...
Successfully extracted archive
Starting package install...
Command line alias added: "ffmpeg"
Command line alias added: "ffplay"
Command line alias added: "ffprobe"
Successfully installed

As you can see, all three FFmpeg applications have been added to the system PATH via winget's alias links. You can choose to use this GyanD instance of FFmpeg by using yt-dlp's '--ffmpeg-location' option to point to the winget links directory, or whatever alternate FFmpeg location you prefer to use.

Note: There are multiple packages that match "yt-dlp" in the repository, as you can see with this example search:

C:\>winget search yt-dlp.
Name                     Id                    Version                  Source
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FFmpeg for yt-dlp        yt-dlp.FFmpeg         N-121938-g2456a39581-20… winget
FFmpeg for yt-dlp (Shar… yt-dlp.FFmpeg.Shared  N-121938-g2456a39581-20… winget
yt-dlp                   yt-dlp.yt-dlp         2025.12.08               winget
yt-dlp-nightly           yt-dlp.yt-dlp.nightly 2025.12.29.233040        winget

The two that are yt-dlp specific areyt-dlp (for stable channel releases, ID:yt-dlp.yt-dlp) and yt-dlp-nightly (for nightly channel releases, ID:yt-dlp.yt-dlp.nightly). Ideally, you should install and run the nightly release, as it will always have the most up-to-date fixes applied to it.

In the above example, I searched for "yt-dlp." to keep the search criteria specific to the yt-dlp organization. If you leave off the ".", you will see a broader set of results because of packages tagged with "yt-dlp" like the following:

C:\Scripts>winget search yt-dlp
Name              Id                Version           Match              Source
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
yt-dlp            yt-dlp.yt-dlp     2025.12.08                           winget
yt-dlp-nightly    yt-dlp.yt-dlp.ni… 2025.12.29.233040 Command: yt-dlp    winget
Varia             GiantPinkRobots.… 2025.10.14        Tag: yt-dlp        winget
Nickvision Parab… Nickvision.Parab… 2025.11.1         Tag: yt-dlp        winget
tartube           axcore.tartube    2.5.100           Tag: yt-dlp        winget
yt-dlp-gui        dsymbol.yt-dlp-g… 2025.09.30        Tag: yt-dlp        winget
Video Downloader  kayapater.VideoD… 1.4.0             Tag: yt-dlp        winget
NeoDLP            neosubhamoy.neod… 0.3.4             Tag: yt-dlp        winget
FFmpeg for yt-dlp yt-dlp.FFmpeg     N-121938-g2456a3… Tag: yt-dlp        winget
FFmpeg for yt-dl… yt-dlp.FFmpeg.Sh… N-121938-g2456a3… Tag: yt-dlp        winget
Stacher is a mod… Stacher.Stacher   7.1.4                                winget
Video Downloader… DevLG.CmdPalVide… 0.0.9.0           Tag: yt-dlp exten… winget
Videomass         GianlucaPernigot… 3.5.8             Tag: yt-dlp-gui    winget

Downloading stream metadata GraphQL

Downloading video access token GraphQL

Downloading m3u8 information

Is there a command to see those links? like debug option or something? I want to put it into VLC, not downloading! Browser dev tools won't help there.

ahh, ty

The Optional Dependencies readme section doesn't clarify this part. I would like to include all optional dependencies to create a portable super-dlp. Can I just extract all of them, directly as they come, into the root directory containingyt-dlp.exe? What about those that are packaged as archives containing their own directories or multiple directories? Can yt-dlp intelligently figure out what to do with the default directory structure of each project?

I know I can use %PATH%, of course, but then it becomes non-portable. Interest in portable software seems to be receding, but I still find it extremely useful, particularly in the era of hyper-bloated software and software that now wants to install all or most of its files into %USERDATA%. Portable apps are forced to tell you precisely how much space they're using and how, whether they want to or not! :)

Thanks and happy new year!

Is anyone else suddenly experiencing error 403 as of yesterday on youtube? Was going to do my usual routine of downloading lives streams i watched when i suddenly got error 403.

After trouble shooting my settings i figured out the error triggers only when using a get cookies command on a live stream URL. I'm pretty sure i am not banned since i can view videos fine on my browser, and all non-live stream content including members download just fine. Its solely livestreams that i get the error on.

If i remove the get cookies command from my conf file the stream downloads just fine. Swapping from get cookies from browser to a local text file also doesn't stop the error from occurring.

Will post a verbose log in the comments to avoid bloating this textbox.

Hi all, I'm having a go at downloading a video from youtube, it's a private one shared with me. I've exported my Chrome cookies into a txt file, however I get the following error message...

ERROR: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/'

Any ideas? Thanks.

So I have used yt dlp to download and store all my podcasts I upload in youtube in mp3 format. However, much to my horror all these years Ive only downloaded it in the webm format not the mp3 format.

Can YT DLP somehow convert the webm files I downloaded into mp3 and then delete the original webm files? Or do I have to download an external software in order to convert all these podcasts?

I'm trying to download all liked music from YouTube Music and I found a project ytm-ll-dl (from what I understand it's a wrapper for ytp-dl). I'm having a problem where it asks for request headers from Firefox, I searched everywhere but found no solution on how to do it entirely from phone, as I have no access to a PC currently. Is there any possible way to get those request headers? Or is there an alternative to ytm-ll-dl that works entirely from mobile? (For context, my phone is not rooted.)

es con ytdlp intentado descargar un video con todas sus pistas de audio y subtitulos , me dice error , dengado, url no encotrada , me peticion es si encuentran una forma ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJMhT9bZlMU este el video

I need to impersonate chrome to get better speeds on my downloads and to maximize the efficiency of it.

Honestly I'm sad that it comes to this because I have nostalgia back when this wasn't necessary but YouTube has been changing the API to my frequent detriment(it broke multiple third party music clients).

If anyone could tell me how to achieve this on the dnf repo that would be greatly appreciated. It's easier for me to update and manage through the repo.

I'd like to get a list of the YouTube video IDs from a playlist without actually downloading the videos. Similar to how --download-archive does it. I tried adding the --skip-download option but the archive file then isn't created. Is there any way to do this?

Is anyone else having an issue with ytdlnis not downloading i did the update but before that it just stopped downloading i put the video in to download and it doesn't nothing does anyone know what's causing it? I have version 1.8.7.2(arm64)

Need some help here. I have ytdlp running on my VPS with a frontend UI.

I started getting restricted because of bot detection from Youtube but now Instagram seems to have blocked my downloads too

I get an error message leading me to the solution of serving cookies to solve this issue but does anyone know a better more reliable way to bypass this, will this get worse over time for downloads?

example -F:

ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS CH │ FILESIZE TBR PROTO │ VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR ASR MORE INFO

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

sb2 mhtml 48x27 0 │ mhtml │ images storyboard

sb1 mhtml 79x45 1 │ mhtml │ images storyboard

sb0 mhtml 159x90 1 │ mhtml │ images storyboard

139 m4a audio only 2 │ 1.46MiB 49k https │ audio only mp4a.40.5 49k 22k [vi] low, m4a_dash

249 webm audio only 2 │ 1.54MiB 52k https │ audio only opus 52k 48k [vi] low, webm_dash

140 m4a audio only 2 │ 3.87MiB 129k https │ audio only mp4a.40.2 129k 44k [vi] medium, m4a_dash

251 webm audio only 2 │ 3.98MiB 133k https │ audio only opus 133k 48k [vi] medium, webm_dash

91 mp4 256x144 24 │ ~ 4.42MiB 148k m3u8 │ avc1.4D400C mp4a.40.5 [vi]

160 mp4 256x144 24 │ 1.52MiB 51k https │ avc1.4d400c 51k video only 144p, mp4_dash

278 webm 256x144 24 │ 2.06MiB 69k https │ vp9 69k video only 144p, webm_dash

92 mp4 426x240 24 │ ~ 8.65MiB 289k m3u8 │ avc1.4D4015 mp4a.40.5 [vi]

133 mp4 426x240 24 │ 3.31MiB 111k https │ avc1.4d4015 111k video only 240p, mp4_dash

242 webm 426x240 24 │ 2.88MiB 97k https │ vp9 97k video only 240p, webm_dash

93 mp4 640x360 24 │ ~17.49MiB 584k m3u8 │ avc1.4D401E mp4a.40.2 [vi]

134 mp4 640x360 24 │ 6.11MiB 205k https │ avc1.4d401e 205k video only 360p, mp4_dash

18 mp4 640x360 24 2 │ ≈ 9.99MiB 334k https │ avc1.42001E mp4a.40.2 44k [vi] 360p

243 webm 640x360 24 │ 5.11MiB 171k https │ vp9 171k video only 360p, webm_dash

94 mp4 854x480 24 │ ~25.08MiB 838k m3u8 │ avc1.4D401E mp4a.40.2 [vi]

135 mp4 854x480 24 │ 11.16MiB 374k https │ avc1.4d401e 374k video only 480p, mp4_dash

244 webm 854x480 24 │ 7.37MiB 247k https │ vp9 247k video only 480p, webm_dash

Now in case I only wanna download audio best quality but in m4a.40.2, which is better quality than 40.5. But Idk what command to do it.

Currently I'm using:

yt-dlp -f bestaudio/best -x --audio-format m4a --audio-quality 256k --embed-thumbnail --embed-metadata -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -c "#link"

I used Mediahuman youtube downloader for downloading my youtube playlists, but i want to change to youtubedl.
I DO NEED a GUI. I am useless with command lines.
What do you recommend me and why?

I use this command to download the video in 720p: -f bestvideo[height<=720][ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best The thing is there's not much size difference between this and the 1080p video it downloads by default. Since I'm on a metered connection, I wanted to know is there anything I could do to trim the size? Maybe choosing slightly less audio quality(not much). Or should I download the video in 480p to cut doiwn the size? Thanks(:

yt-dlp -f bestvideo[height<=720][ext=mp4]+worstaudio[ext=m4a]/worst[ext=mp4]/best --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang "en.*" Using the above command works fine, but it always downloads 2 sets of subtitles.vtt. Not that I have any problem with that, but I don't want to have to delete one every time. *edit: The names of the files are slightly different: One ends with: .en-orig.vtt other: en.vtt

Why does YouTube block IP addresses? I want to know. I'm a video editor and I download videos from various channels, making legitimate use of the material and complying with fair use laws. Could this affect me in the future?

i only received speed around 100 KB/s using yt-dlp while downloading one video directly from youtube get me 50MB/s, am i being throttled and any solution for this?

After five years, I just upgraded to a new PC, with Windows 11. On my old W10 PC, I got lots of mileage out of youtube-dl, thanks majorly to the intuitive and simple . But I did not know how to go about transferring the program to my new PC (if it could even be done, since "transferring" involved copying pictures, documents, mp3's, and so on, onto an external drive, and then copying from that onto the new PC).

I'm trying to follow instructions given [here] and in the above link, but I find myself totally lost; I was technically able to install the barebones yt-dl that's in Step 1 of the second link as well as the dlg, but trying to convert/download a YouTube video as mp3 audio just spits out an Error message and a WEBM file.

Can someone walk me through how to (re)install everything so I can go back to quickly & easily using dlg to turn YouTube video audio into mp3's (and occasionally the odd mp4 video)?

The advice is all over the place everywhere and I want to always get the highest possible quality and prevent loss of fidelity and also be able to join them.

I saw something say only --extract-audio is necessary

Doing that resulted in .opus files with these specs:

• 92% compressed

• sample rate: 48 kHz

• bitrate: 136 kps

heres full output of tiktok

[tiktok:user] Extracting URL: [tiktok:user] asdfghjkl_1234.28: Downloading user webpage WARNING: [tiktok:user] The extractor is attempting impersonation, but no impersonate target is available. If you encounter errors, then see for information on installing the required dependencies [tiktok:user] asdfghjkl_1234.28: Downloading user embed page WARNING: [tiktok:user] This user's account is either private or has embedding disabled ERROR: [tiktok:user] asdfghjkl_1234.28: Unable to extract secondary user ID. If you are able to get the channel_id from a video posted by this user, try using "tiktokuser:channel_id" as the input URL (replacing channel_id with its actual value) [tiktok:user] Extracting URL: [tiktok:user] asdfghjkl_1234.28: Downloading user webpage WARNING: [tiktok:user] The extractor is attempting impersonation, but no impersonate target is available. If you encounter errors, then see for information on installing the required dependencies [tiktok:user] asdfghjkl_1234.28: Downloading user embed page WARNING: [tiktok:user] This user's account is either private or has embedding disabled ERROR: [tiktok:user] asdfghjkl_1234.28: Unable to extract secondary user ID. If you are able to get the channel_id from a video posted by this user, try using "tiktokuser:channel_id" as the input URL (replacing channel_id with its actual value) [tiktok:user] Extracting URL: [tiktok:user] asdfghjkl_1234.28: Downloading user webpage WARNING: [tiktok:user] The extractor is attempting impersonation, but no impersonate target is available. If you encounter errors, then see for information on installing the required dependencies [tiktok:user] asdfghjkl_1234.28: Downloading user embed page WARNING: [tiktok:user] This user's account is either private or has embedding disabled ERROR: [tiktok:user] asdfghjkl_1234.28: Unable to extract secondary user ID. If you are able to get the channel_id from a video posted by this user, try using "tiktokuser:channel_id" as the input URL (replacing channel_id with its actual value)

Heres the output btw im using only termux with pip install ytdlp on android phone...the profile url share options inside tiktok i use for download even the copy paste yt-dlp url inside tetmux isn't working

Heres also the nano configure setup

---------------------------------------------------------- # TIKTOK-ONLY LITE CONFIG # ---------------------------------------------------------- --ignore-errors --continue --no-overwrites --no-part --progress # OUTPUT TEMPLATE (TikTok best practice) -o "%(uploader)s/%(uploader)s_%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s" # Best mp4 quality -f "bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4]/b" --merge-output-format mp4 # Optional: download thumbnail --write-thumbnail --convert-thumbnails jpg

Embed metadata

--embed-metadata

Retries

--retries infinite --fragment-retries infinite

User agent (fix 403 errors)

--user-agent "Mozilla/5.0"

----------------------------------------------------------

END

----------------------------------------------------------

ERROR: [tiktok:user] _youfoundmiks: Unable to extract secondary user ID. If you are able to get the channel_id from a video posted by this user, try using "tiktokuser:channel_id" as the input URL (replacing channel_id with its actual value)

I'm trying to download just the audio from a YouTube video. I'm using yt-dlp -t mp3 "URL", but it's spitting out an mp4 file that can't be opened. Any suggestions?

I'm up-to-date, installed with brew, updated to nightly.

I want only is video...how to config my nano ? Ibefore downloading it..m not using copy paste or apk file

This question has probably been asked a thousand times, but I don't understand: is there a quality difference between the AV1 and VP9 codecs at the same resolution and fps? I know that yt-dlp prefers AV1 in this case, but what is the basis for this choice? Is AV1 actually slightly better quality than VP9, ​​or is there no difference in quality, and yt-dlp chooses AV1 because it takes up less space? Thanks in advance

These filenames always drive me crazy because they’re literally just the video title. I can never find anything from a specific channel or timeframe. So I want to change them!

But starting in 5.0.0-beta3, download is back. And Seal is being used. And Seal uses yt-dlp!

But if you’re like me and not a dev, you can’t even get the entire project to build properly with gradle in Android Studio 😔

So I pivoted and found that I could use to decompile, recompile, and sign the entire modded app in just a few clicks and a few minutes (after HOURS wasted in Android Studio 😂).

Step 1: Download the PipePipe beta3 apk file. (Download the codebase too while you’re there if you like for Step 3 use).

Step 2: Download APKToolGUI.

Step 3: Start APKToolGUI. Decompile the apk file, then search the decompiled directory for DownloadWorker.smali. Open the .smali file in an editor. (Open the DownloadWorker.kt file from the codebase in another window, if you like)

Step 4: Search for this text in the .smali file: (title). This will lead you to recognizable yt-dlp code. From there you can modify the output filename and other yt-dlp options using the surrounding code (and also DownloadWorker.kt) as guides. Save your changes when you're done.

This is modifying .line 149. You can use the line numbers of blank lines or comments from the original codebase (.kt file) for some flexibility, if you don’t want to update the rest of the .line numbers beyond this point.

For example, I modified .line 149, but also added an option by adding .line 151.

Step 5: Return to APKToolGUI. Hit the Compile button. It will automatically align and sign the recompiled apk for you!

Step 6: Install this newly created signed apk as per usual.

Written for myself as much as anyone else, lest I forget how to do this lol

how to pause/stop/cancel downloading in yt dlp in cmd ?? and can i download currently live streaming videos ??

Look, this is clearly an issue for months but I have done everything I possibly can between chatGPT and scouring this forum and it's still happening. I cannot download a single file from Youtube. Surely there is some fix I am not aware of? It looks like this has been an issue for months. Please help.

Edit: this may be an issue with setting up curl_cffi on android termux

I installed yt-dlp in a fresh venv with

python -m pip install -U --pre 'yt-dlp[default,curl-cffi]'

pip list shows

cffi 2.0.0
curl_cffi 0.13.0
yt-dlp 2026.1.6.233142.dev0
yt-dlp-ejs 0.3.2

But

yt-dlp --list-impersonate-targets
[info] Available impersonate targets
Client OS Source

Tor - curl_cffi>=0.11 (unavailable)
Edge - curl_cffi (unavailable)
Firefox - curl_cffi>=0.10 (unavailable)
Safari - curl_cffi (unavailable)
Chrome - curl_cffi (unavailable)

Any idea what I'm missing?

yt-dlp: error: --cookies-from-browser option requires 1 argument

steel@SteelBook:~/Videos$ yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser

Usage: yt-dlp [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

yt-dlp: error: --cookies-from-browser option requires 1 argument

steel@SteelBook:~/Videos$ yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser

Usage: yt-dlp [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

yt-dlp: error: unsupported browser specified for cookies: "https". Supported browsers are: brave, chrome, chromium, edge, firefox, opera, safari, vivaldi, whale

steel@SteelBook:~/Videos$ yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome

Extracting cookies from chrome

[Cookies] Loading cookie 0/ 3545ERROR: secretstorage not available as the \secretstorage` module is not installed. Please install by running `python3 -m pip install secretstorage``

WARNING: failed to decrypt cookie (AES-CBC) because UTF-8 decoding failed. Possibly the key is wrong?

Extracted 2328 cookies from chrome (1014 could not be decrypted)

[youtube] Extracting URL:

[youtube] klTYHzheBb8: Downloading webpage

[youtube] klTYHzheBb8: Downloading android sdkless player API JSON

[youtube] klTYHzheBb8: This video is age-restricted; some formats may be missing without authentication. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp for how to manually pass cookies. Also see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies

[youtube] klTYHzheBb8: Downloading web embedded client config

[youtube] klTYHzheBb8: Downloading player c80790c5-main

[youtube] klTYHzheBb8: Downloading web embedded player API JSON

[youtube] klTYHzheBb8: Downloading tv client config

[youtube] klTYHzheBb8: Downloading tv player API JSON

[youtube] klTYHzheBb8: Downloading web safari player API JSON

ERROR: [youtube] klTYHzheBb8: Sign in to confirm your age. This video may be inappropriate for some users. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp for how to manually pass cookies. Also see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies

Hello. I'd appreciate if anyone can give a suggestion whether I don't understand something with a current state of YouTube downloads or there's something you must do to make it work on Android lately. Is there some step or config I must do or Seal/Ytdlnis devs already tried their best and there's nothing to do until next version? I updated both to latest versions with no success downloading from YouTube.

UPD: the problem was with an outdated yt-dlp. Apparently the auto-update in YTDlnis can be broken. Manual update fixed it.

Obviously most people will always just want to download the best quality possible. When you google it you find . Telling you to use bv*+ba/b. So that'll get you the "best" video regardless of audio and then the "best" audio-only. But what does that mean?
According to the documentation bv without the * only checks for video-only formats disregarding any videos that contain audio while bv* gets you the best video period which may or may not contain some audio, but then ba is the best audio-only format ignoring any audio contained inside a video format and ba* says do not use and it explains why rather well. Not sure what the /b at the end means.
So that still leaves several possible scenarios where you aren't getting the best video and best audio available. What if the best audio is "hidden" inside a video format that's lower total quality than the best quality video? What if the actual best video is a video-only format while the one that gets detected as best is video+audio in one?

Hi all

When doing yt-dlp -F, and getting some formats ending with -drc,
what does it mean?

Sometimes the same format number appears twice:
Once without -drc,
and another time with -drc..

Thank you

I'm trying to download a video in 4K but it only downloads in 1080, and I get the following error:

n challenge solving failed: Some formats may be missing. Ensure you have a supported JavaScript runtime and challenge solver script distribution installed.

I'm using:

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox bestvideo+bestaudio --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata --merge-output-format mp4 <video_url>

It was working fine recently.

Any updated guide for installing yt-dlp?

-Debian 13, Trixie w/ debmultimedia repo added for FFmpeg...

--

I am currently doing a fresh install of my system and wanting to make sure I am installing yt-dlp fresh, correctly from the get go.

I have spent a couple hours now poking around trying to get some clarity. I am aware of the changes from about a month or so ago bringing in a few new requirements. I am hoping to clear up the warnings that I have been getting since the changes.

Edit for additional info..

I have/am looked/looking at the yt-dlp github wiki but I am not sure if the install guide there has all of the new requirements baked into or if I will need to do more.

Hi all
As the question says
What do I actually need to do, to use curl cffi, to get rid of the impersonation message when trying to download?

The extractor is attempting impersonation, but no impersonate target is available. If you encounter errors, then see for information on installing the required dependencies

Site says
Can be installed with the curl-cffi extra, e.g. pip install "yt-dlp[default,curl-cffi]"

Cool but I am using brew

Site says
Currently included in most builds except yt-dlp (Unix zipimport binary), yt-dlp_x86 (Windows 32-bit) and yt-dlp_musllinux_aarch64

Cool but obviously not included in the brew install or it wouldn't be giving me the message when extracting formats?

Is there a brew version or am I SOL since I didn't install via pip/python?
Thanks

UPDATE 1, 10th Jan
Installed cffi via this url and the command shown there:

But I still get the message in yt-dlp about "The extractor is attempting impersonation" and to see the github link blah blah.
But:
- yt-dlp was installed via brew
- cffi was installed via brew
Why is my assumption this should work, not correct?
Does cffi need to be inside the py env that brew created for yt-dlp, and if so then my original point: why does this subreddit recommend brew as the installation method for Mac when it ends up more complicated

1. I want to download this video:
   

2. I type: yt-dlp  -f bestvideo+bestaudio -o %(title)s.%(ext)s

The files being downloaded are:

[info] ZfObjX-E_g4: Downloading 1 format(s): 399+251-1
[download] Destination: Celia: 1x03 - !El verano! | RTVE Archivo.f399.mp4
[download] 100% of 405.95MiB in 00:00:30 at 13.24MiB/s
[download] Destination: Celia: 1x03 - !El verano! | RTVE Archivo.f251-1.webm
[download] 100% of 32.44MiB in 00:00:01 at 17.99MiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "Celia: 1x03 - !El verano! | RTVE Archivo.webm"

3. So as you see, I typed bestvideo and bestaudio, yet, when I list the available formats, the version above is not the best quality one. There are larger files, too, with higher bitrate:

96-0 mp4 1440x1080 25 | ~ 1.10GiB 3561k m3u8 | avc1.640028 m
p4a.40.2 [es]
96-1 mp4 1440x1080 25 | ~ 1.10GiB 3561k m3u8 | avc1.640028 m
p4a.40.2 [en-US] (default)
96-2 mp4 1440x1080 25 | ~ 1.10GiB 3561k m3u8 | avc1.640028 m
p4a.40.2 [es-US] (original)
137 mp4 1440x1080 25 | 765.37MiB 2419k https | avc1.640028 2419k v
ideo only 1080p, mp4_dash
248 webm 1440x1080 25 | 401.99MiB 1271k https | vp9 1271k v
ideo only 1080p, webm_dash
399 mp4 1440x1080 25 | 405.95MiB 1283k https | av01.0.08M.08 1283k v
ideo only 1080p, mp4_dash

Why doesn't it detect the best quality video as requested? 4KVideoDownloader grabs the largest file when set to best quality.

I'm trying to add music to iTunes/Apple music but I can't upload it in Opus.

Thanks

help ytdlp experts brother favor can i exclude the image the subtitle the mp3 sound the m4a the json file in file i want to download....a single file contains of different file format..could it be possible? here is my nano script...what line will i delete to excluded them...i want only the mp4 or mkv video and the sounds of it. only..thanks to all who wants to help

# ----------------------------- # yt-dlp Default Configuration
# -----------------------------

# Best quality + best audio

-f "bv*+ba/b"

--paths ~/storage/shared/Download

# Merge to MP4 (most compatible)

--merge-output-format mp4 -o "%(extractor)s/%(uploader)s/%(uploader)s_%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s"

# Embed subtitles if available

--write-subs
--sub-langs "en.*,auto" --embed-subs
--cookies "~/.config/yt-dlp/cookies.txt"

# Embed metadata

--embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail

# Download speed progress

--progress
--console-title

# Resume downloads automatically

--continue

# Skip if file already exists

--no-overwrites

# Use aria2c for faster downloads (optional)

# --external-downloader aria2c

# --external-downloader-args "aria2c: -x 16 -k 1M"

# Fix file permissions

--restrict-filenames

Short answer to title : use gallery-dl

Download the standalone executable here :
Don't forget to add --cookies-from-browser *your browser* to get access to twitter

WARNING: [youtube] _rQgR5Bkplc: Signature extraction failed: Some formats may be missing

ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

How could i do to fix it?

So only when I clicked on auto subtitles it got an error without auto subtitles it's working fine help me out

ERROR: Unable to download video subtitles for 'en': HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests

simple adjustment in nano can fix this guys? help me....guide me to solve it...for those who wanted to help many thanks

Hey there, using the latest version of yt-dlp on arch linux, and there's a video I'm trying to get from youtube at it's max resolution, but it doesn't list the resolution in the available formats list. The video has options for up to 4k, but yt-dlp only lists 1080p formats.

This is what i get when i try:

[debug] Command-line config: ['--cookies-from-browser', 'firefox', '-F', '--verbose', '

[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8

[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2025.12.08 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [7a52ff29d]

[debug] Python 3.13.11 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-6.17.9-arch1-1-x86_64-with-glibc2.42 (OpenSSL 3.6.0 1 Oct 2025, glibc 2.42)

[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 8.0.1 (setts), ffprobe 8.0.1, rtmpdump 2.6

[debug] Optional libraries: certifi-2025.11.12, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.51.1, urllib3-2.6.2

[debug] JS runtimes: none

[debug] Proxy map: {}

Extracting cookies from firefox

[debug] Extracting cookies from: "/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/g2hdphr9.default-release-1734782769302/cookies.sqlite"

[debug] Firefox cookies database version: 17

Extracted 1914 cookies from firefox

[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests

[debug] Plugin directories: none

[debug] Loaded 1854 extractors

[debug] [youtube] Found YouTube account cookies

[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Providers: none

[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Providers: memory

[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Spec Providers: webpo

[debug] [youtube] [jsc] JS Challenge Providers: bun (unavailable), deno (unavailable), node (unavailable), quickjs (unavailable)

[youtube] Extracting URL:

[youtube] ZeBHDscQKOE: Downloading webpage

[youtube] ZeBHDscQKOE: Downloading tv downgraded player API JSON

[youtube] ZeBHDscQKOE: Downloading web safari player API JSON

WARNING: [youtube] ZeBHDscQKOE: n challenge solving failed: Some formats may be missing. Ensure you have a supported JavaScript runtime and challenge solver script distribution installed. Review any warnings presented before this message. For more details, refer to

[youtube] ZeBHDscQKOE: Downloading m3u8 information

[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto

[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id

[info] Available formats for ZeBHDscQKOE:

ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS │ FILESIZE TBR PROTO │ VCODEC ACODEC MORE INFO

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

sb3 mhtml 48x27 0 │ mhtml │ images storyboard

sb2 mhtml 80x45 0 │ mhtml │ images storyboard

sb1 mhtml 160x90 0 │ mhtml │ images storyboard

sb0 mhtml 320x180 0 │ mhtml │ images storyboard

91 mp4 256x144 30 │ ~ 10.59MiB 170k m3u8 │ avc1.4D400C mp4a.40.5 WEB-S

92 mp4 426x240 30 │ ~ 19.38MiB 311k m3u8 │ avc1.4D4015 mp4a.40.5 WEB-S

93 mp4 640x360 30 │ ~ 50.07MiB 803k m3u8 │ avc1.4D401E mp4a.40.2 WEB-S

94 mp4 854x480 30 │ ~ 84.50MiB 1355k m3u8 │ avc1.4D401F mp4a.40.2 WEB-S

300 mp4 1280x720 60 │ ~261.66MiB 4197k m3u8 │ avc1.4D4020 mp4a.40.2 WEB-S

301 mp4 1920x1080 60 │ ~436.90MiB 7008k m3u8 │ avc1.64002A mp4a.40.2 WEB-S

Hello, im using ytdl on the app im having trouble downloading music on yt music

ERROR: Preprocessing: ffmpeg not found. Please install or provide the path using --ffmpeg-location ERROR: Postprocessing: ffprobe and ffmpeg not found. Please install or provide the path using --ffmpeg-location

the warning says no javascript runtime could be found and, forced SABR streaming.

and that even if i typed -k after the url i couldn't find the downloaded file.

I want to download a youtube playlist in audio format. I’m using yt-dlp on macOS. I have learned to download a full playlist by using the command: yt-dlp “playlist url”, but I couldn’t understand how to make it download in audio format directly. Can someone provide de correct command to add after the playlist url to make it download in the best possible quality? Thanks in advance.

New here, sorry if I'm doing something obviously wrong. I'm using to download files with multiple audio tracks & subtitles to the one mkv file, however I keep running into issues where it will only link 1 subtitle and 1 audio track, often in the wrong language. I have the following config file loaded:
# Best video, MKV format, all available subs & audio tracks

-f "bv+(251/mergeall[format_id~=251-])" --audio-multistreams --sub-langs "all,-live_chat" --embed-subs --embed-metadata --merge-output-format mkv

Could someone help me figure out how to download ALL audio or subtitles at once, and if that isn't actually possible, what the config should be to prioritize English? Thanks

Edit: main problem I'm having at the moment is that it's downloading those awful "auto-dub" tracks in different languages and not the original audio track at all

I created a API for using yt-dlp via URL.
It was working fine on local environment but deploying it to cloud, Google Cloud Run, caused the service to keep getting 403 errors.
I've tried using cookies from incognito sessions but the error persists. I guess the data center IPs are black listed by Google.

Is there a production ready method, even if it paid, to get this operational?

Thank you

Just discovered this app. Installed it, fed it a playlist URL, in the format:

yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --remote-components ejs:github "my_yt_playlist_url"

and it only downloads the first video/song in the playlist, and it complains about youtube using SABR streaming.

Is there a fix for this?

I was using yt-dlp to download a portion from a kick vod using this:

yt-dlp "https://kick.com/suspendas/videos/af73e982-8ce5-453d-a50f-a0bbd06b78d7" --download-sections "*11:50:00-12:00:00"

But it seems to return no data, and the resulting file is 260B.

It seems to work if I use a time-range earlier in the vod: yt-dlp "https://kick.com/suspendas/videos/af73e982-8ce5-453d-a50f-a0bbd06b78d7" --download-sections "*1:50:00-2:00:00"

So I thought maybe the problem was using time-stamps near the end of a very long VOD. But I tried the same thing on another long VOD (14 hours), and it seems to work just fine: yt-dlp "https://kick.com/nickwhite/videos/39519f90-4fee-462c-bc81-72bf51488c54" --download-sections "*14:00:00-14:02:00"

I've used brew to upgrade both yt-dlp and ffmpeg.

Any ideas what's going on?

YTdl(p) asks for all the data THEN says "Nah nevermind this already exists"
Can I ask it to look at the filename first and skip the download if the filename matches an existing file?

Also RIP Raccoon Jesus, your songs will be immortalized on my hard drive. Dunno where you went but hope you're okay.

Hi

I made a Telegram bot as UI to yt-dlp. I simply drop an URL and then it converts it into mp3. Telegram has a very simple MP3 player and playlist feature, which suits my need to listen to songs not published or webinars on Youtube. Once downloaded, you can share the mp3 in any way you like (save, to whatsapp, publish in google drive etc).

It automatically downgrades quality so to fit the 50mb size limit.

Playlists seem to work too, although I don't use it a lot.

Hope it serves someone else's purpose.

Youtube short -

I don't want to make and log into an account.

youtubepp.com used to work but it has been taken down dues to bs copyright stuff.

Any alternative methods that don't require an account?

I’m setting up a download workflow and wondering if there’s a pre-built queue manager / visualiser for yt-dlp before I go and script my own.

My setup:

• yt-dlp runs on a macOS-based NAS / Mac mini

• I’ll be triggering downloads from other Macs on my LAN (mostly via SSH or small scripts)

• I’d like a way to queue, throttle, monitor, pause, resume, retry errors and view logs for multiple concurrent yt-dlp jobs

Is there a tool or wrapper of some sort that can:

• manage a queue of downloads

• show running / queued / failed tasks

• expose logs and progress

• ideally provide a web UI or terminal UI

• per-job config, group/concurrency limits, archive handling, etc.

I know I could build something using pueue or similar, but before reinventing the wheel, does anything already exist vaguely in this space?

Thanks!

Apparently YTM now presents two very DIFFERENT versions of the SAME playlist (same URL), depending on whether you are using 1) the YTM Android app with premium subscription or 2) yt-dlp with premium account cookies

In the second case YTM offers mostly LOW QUALITY USER-UPLOADED versions of the same songs (and even the number of songs is different)

Unfortunately even when using YT Premium subscription account cookies, yt-dlp currently only downloads the LOW QUALITY version of the same playlist ...

For example try downloading this playlist from yt-dlp (with premium account cookies):

It's from an online streaming service, I got the video and audio no problem, but I'm having trouble with subs (which are available). When using --list-subs there are multiple (6 or so) mp4 files for each language. Writing out subs would only get me one mp4 sub file per language. I've converted it to vtt and then srt and there's only like 3 lines of text for a few seconds of the video.

Is there any way to get the whole subtitles? I'm not sure if grabbing all of the mp4 files would work (and I don't even know the command to do so), if it's actually all sub parts listed and then I'd need to merge it somehow. Or if there's a way to find the original non-fragmented file.

Hi, I have been using yt-dlp for a few years now. I mostly download songs or a 10 minute video in mostly 1080p. I don't go for 2K or 4K because I consider 1080p optimum. So yt-dlp is working great in that scenario. Today though, I tried to download a 45+ minute video in 1440p. Yt-dlp did the job. Video was downloaded, my phone laaged a little bit, It was fine. But the problem was, that I included subtitles. Which turned the app into a nightmare. It took time. A lot of time. I tried to pause and resume again and again so it could be done faster. Didn't work. I waited for half an hour. I deleted the app and video altogether. I don't like something unfinished. So I'm looking for alternatives. I have tried seal before. I remember uninstalling, I can't remember why. Counting on you. 🙇

Hey everyone, i’m looking to archive an instagram page with ~1000 reels, YT-DLP doesn’t seem to support Instagram rn so I’m wondering if theres any mass download tools like YT-DLP to do it, i used cobalt.tools but i don’t really want to download them 1 by 1

Hi all

In the past, my yt-dlp.conf file had a very simple -f line, which was:
-f 22

That was the format for people who prefer 720p.

Format 22 is long gone, and I have used 136+140 instead,
but it seems that nowdays there's a new format similar to 22,
which is 95.

So my yt-dlp.conf file now contains-f 95/136+140,
but it seems that I need to slightly improve it:

Sometimes the 95 format is not included as 1 option, but as several options, for several languages.

In such case, 95 alone does not exist, and instead, you got:
95-0
95-1
95-2
and so on.

I would like to add to my -f 95/136+140 line another format with a filter,
that will choose the 95- option that is [en-US].

So more specifically,
the format_id starts with 95- (including the dash),
and the format_note starts with [en-US].

How can I do it?

Say that I want to download a video on youtube and I want to include the video description of it and include it in the metadata. Is it possible and how can I do it?

I’m trying to archive a ongoing livestream that is in 1440p60 in vp9 (according to stats), but yt-dlp can only seem to detect a max of 1080p60 in h264. It finds vp9 1440p streams fine on the livestream replay but it just cant do it for live. Is this a known issue and what causes it?

I’m using Python’s yt_dlp to download some videos, and I added a simple timeout using progress_hooks. It works, but I can’t figure out how often these hooks actually run.

Does anyone know the callback frequency?
Or if there’s a better way to implement a download timeout I’d love to hear it.

Greetings! I run youtube-dl via MeTube via Docker. I regularly get an error stating that the file couldn't be downloaded because the filename is too long which I've been given the impression can be fixed with trim_file_name. It looks like that option is youtube-dl specific, and according to MeTube you can add ytdl specific options to the docker compose by using 'YTDL_OPTION' under environment. However, the option needs to be written in JSON and I'm not sure how do do that. Could someone help me? Here is my existing docker-compose which does not work.

services:
  metube:
    image: ghcr.io/alexta69/metube
    container_name: metube
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8081:8081"
    volumes:
      - /home/myusername/shared/Downloads/metube:/downloads
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - DARK_MODE=true
      - YTDL_OPTION={"trim_file_name":50}

Thanks in advance for the help!

I'm having issues with my YouTube converter suddenly not working. I have never had this issue and it hasn't been working for over a week. I like it because of the high quality downloads and the fact I can edit the ID3 Tags easily. Whenever I launch it, it'll load and say my licence isn't activated then after like 1 minute it'll tell me I'm good, but anytime I try to download it says YouTube video error. I also can't reach the website at all, tried from multiple different devices and even used the ping command to its local IP and still couldn't get access to it. Does anyone have any news or when this will be back up or does anyone have any way of fixing this?

Hi,

I download series episodes from different channels, for someone, the output file names can include episode number as (1/2) and for other it can appear as 1:2.

for the 1st case I use :

        'postprocessors': [{'actions': [(yt_dlp.postprocessor.metadataparser.MetadataParserPP.replacer,
        'title',
        '[/]',
        '_')],
        'key': 'MetadataParser',
        'when': 'pre_process'}],

and for the 2nd case:

        'postprocessors': [{'actions': [(yt_dlp.postprocessor.metadataparser.MetadataParserPP.replacer,
        'title',
        '[:]',
        '_')],
        'key': 'MetadataParser',
        'when': 'pre_process'}],

But this implies me to change the python module before every DL.

Is there a way to make it more general i.e
systematically replace all "/" and all ":" and all "any char" by "_" ?

I have this video I want to download but for some reason its saying i need to join the channel to even start the download. Ive tried renewing the "cookies.txt" in my YT-DLP Flie, Updated and even logged out and back in again.

(Worth noting i use Opera GX and i dont know how to rip cookies from it dicectly using YT-DLP)

I know im joined since i can watch them, and this worked less than a week ago as i downloaded 3 other membership videos from the same channel.

Any ideas on how to fix this issue? Am I doing a stupid mistake?

C:\Users\[USER]>yt-dlp --cookies cookies.txt "[VIDEO LINK]"
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://youtu.be/MrtDN8PfMs4?si=2J5qTVxBfUgdWXWt
[youtube] [CHANNEL]: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [youtube] No supported JavaScript runtime could be found. Only deno is enabled by default; to use another runtime add  --js-runtimes RUNTIME[:PATH]  to your command/config. YouTube extraction without a JS runtime has been deprecated, and some formats may be missing. See  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS  for details on installing one
[youtube] [CHANNEL]: Downloading android sdkless player API JSON
[youtube] [CHANNEL]: Downloading web safari player API JSON
ERROR: [youtube] [CHANNEL]: Join this channel to get access to members-only content like this video, and other exclusive perks.

Hi ya,

Can anyone tell me why the wikipedia page for youtubedl links to this repository

And then theres repository.

Which ones the correct one? Is there a difference? Thank you!

I prefer viewing subscription videos from a download, rather than in an app on my cellphone or a browser on my desktop, because I can then watch them at 1.3x and skip through any ads. I have found that I can download videos from a non-youtube subscription streaming service with yt-dlp when I use cookies from my browser. It seems, though, that about half the time the downloaded video is not in English, even though that is the default language that I've setup in my browser. It plays in English from my browser, but a download, not necessarily. Is there a switch that I can add to the command line that specify the download language?

Kudo's to the developers. yt-dlp is a fantastic product.

Hi, I wanted to share my config file that I worked on a bit and am now quite happy with it.

It automates the following this:

A) Download path is set to Downloads, so you don't need to navigate to the wanted directory before you call the program (which is what I did before). Note, that this is the Linux downloads directory path, you probably have to exchange the filepath if you are on Windows or Mac.

B) Aliases added:

-A for bestaudio (usually opus contained in webm or m4a for livestreams).
-V for bestvideo+bestaudio

C) Metadata extraction from description (for official audios uploaded to youtube). For example will have Artist, Song Title, Album, Release Year, Composer embedded in the metadata. Filename is Artist - Song Title.

If no appropriate description is found, filename is video title with some processing for messy characters (emojis, :, etc.)

I think it's a good idea to combine this with a keyboard shortcut, such that you can select a link and call yt-dlp -A [Link] on it by pressing the associated hotkeys.

[config file]

# --- General ---
--paths ~/Downloads
--ignore-errors
--no-mtime

# --- Extraction & Assignment ---
# 1. Initialize 'clean' variables with raw data
--parse-metadata "title:%(clean_title)s"
--parse-metadata "uploader:%(clean_artist)s"

# 2. Extract from "Topic" description
--parse-metadata "description:(?m)^(?P<title>.+?) \u00B7 (?P<artist>.+?)$"
--parse-metadata "description:(?s).+? \u00B7 .+?\n\n(?P<album>.+?)\n"
--parse-metadata "description:Released on: (?P<meta_date>\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})"

# Extract Composer Lyricist and Composer Music into temporary fields
--parse-metadata "description:(?m)^Composer Lyricist: (?P<tmp_comp_lyricist>.+)$"
--parse-metadata "description:(?m)^Composer Music: (?P<tmp_comp_music>.+)$"

# Combine them into the 'composer' field. 
# Logic: If both exist, separate with ;. If they are identical, we'll deduplicate in the next step.
--parse-metadata "%(tmp_comp_lyricist|)s%(tmp_comp_lyricist&; |)s%(tmp_comp_music|)s:%(composer)s"

# Deduplicate if both fields were the same
--replace-in-metadata "composer" "^(?P<name>.+); (?P=name)$" "\1"

# 3. Fallback: Split Video Title
--parse-metadata "title:^(?P<artist>.+?) - (?P<title>.+?)(?: \(.*)?$"

# 4. Final Sync
--parse-metadata "artist:%(clean_artist)s"
--parse-metadata "title:%(clean_title)s"
--parse-metadata "%(meta_date|release_date|upload_date)s:%(date)s"

# --- Sanitization (Filenames only) ---
--replace-in-metadata "clean_artist" "^NA$" ""
--replace-in-metadata "clean_title" "(?i)\s*[\(\[](?:official|video|audio|lyrics|hq|4k|hd|mv).*[\)\]]" ""
--replace-in-metadata "clean_title" "[\U00010000-\U0010ffff]" ""
--replace-in-metadata "clean_artist" "[\U00010000-\U0010ffff]" ""
--replace-in-metadata "clean_title" "\s+" " "
--replace-in-metadata "clean_artist" "\s+" " "

# --- Clean Metadata (Remove Links) ---
--parse-metadata ":(?P<description>)"
--parse-metadata ":(?P<comment>)"
--parse-metadata ":(?P<webpage_url>)"

# --- Output Template ---
-o "%(clean_artist|)s%(clean_artist& - |)s%(clean_title)s.%(ext)s"

# --- Capabilities ---
--windows-filenames
--embed-metadata
--alias -A "-f bestaudio"
--alias -V "-f bestvideo+bestaudio"

Command used: yt-dlp -o "~/Desktop/MyPlaylist/%(title)s.%(ext)s" --cookies-from-browser firefox --yes-playlist ""

Terminal:

[CineverseDetails] Extracting URL:

[CineverseDetails] 1000000023012: Downloading webpage

Extracting cookies from firefox

Extracted 1146 cookies from firefox

[Cineverse] Extracting URL: Adventure COBRA (Original Japanese)

[Cineverse] 1000000023012: Downloading webpage

ERROR: 1000000023012: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError('idetails')); please report this issue on , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U

--------------------------------------------------

What did I do wrong? I made sure I was updated afterward.

^{How can I log in to confirm that I'm not a robot? I downloaded the YouTube cookies and wrote yt-dlp --cookies cookie.txt ‘url’, but I'm still getting an error. What should I do?}

I probably know the answer to my question.

The personalised Recap YouTube video for the year doesn't seem to be a 'video'. More of an, 'interactive element' within the YouTube app.

Does it become a video via sharing, or just stay in the same 'format' played to the account holder?

Has someone managed to create a downloadable link of their YouTube Recap video?

Any ideas why my YTDLNIS is so slow for me?

I am on Android, was using Seal until recently plus newpipe. On those, I can download a one-hour video in several minutes. On YTDLNIS, it is taking 1800 minutes.

Newpipe says the video is 200MB and YTDLNIS says that my bitrade is 600kbit/s.

I also tried a few command options related to throttling, chunk size and fragments based on copilot, but I don't know whether they make sense.

as title says

I don't understand why you guys have updates every week for the app.

I installed yt-dpl and winget; I was downloading url just fine. But then at some point, this error popped up. Now it just doesn't work with any link. I found my file path in my App data. Do I need to restart the program

I'm using yt-dlp to generate a dynamic stream URL, which is later fed to ffmpeg to get audio. My usecase is only for live streams. Service is hosted in GCP as a Cloud Run service. This stream-url is generated every few minutes. How can I not get flagged as a bot? Not very sure about cookies because they expire fast and refresh tokens via OAuth is deprecated.

Hello, I'm your usual tech dumbo. I downloaded yt-dlp again in my new PC; turns out that on this machine, it has been downloading the video and the audio separately because of the lack of FFmpeg if I understood the program correctly, I looked for it and downloaded via the enviroment variable path thingie, went back to it and...

It doesn't download anything anymore because it says I do not have the Java scripts for it, and that I should prove I'm not a bot by passing through cookies, taking the FFmpeg out of the enviroment variable path seems to go back to normal.

I clicked through every link I saw and came out empty-handed or with another problem to solve, so before I spend more time in deciphring this puzzle, what I'm really interested for is if there is a way to download video and audio, in one file together, without needing the extra loops that ffmpeg is giving me?

The code, for those interested:

C:\Users\mikan\Downloads>yt-dlp

[youtube] Extracting URL:

[youtube] eRZRXpzZfM4: Downloading webpage

WARNING: [youtube] No supported JavaScript runtime could be found. Only deno is enabled by default; to use another runtime add --js-runtimes RUNTIME[:PATH] to your command/config. YouTube extraction without a JS runtime has been deprecated, and some formats may be missing. See for details on installing one

[youtube] eRZRXpzZfM4: Downloading android sdkless player API JSON

[youtube] eRZRXpzZfM4: Downloading web safari player API JSON

WARNING: [youtube] No title found in player responses; falling back to title from initial data. Other metadata may also be missing

ERROR: [youtube] eRZRXpzZfM4: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See for how to manually pass cookies. Also see for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies

Hello everybody,

Sorry for my mistakes, English isn’t my first language.

I’m thinking about the ways I can selfhost my music to :

-save a few bucks because I’m poor

-have offline access to my music

-archive my music because I tend to listen to some niche live recordings that only exist on YouTube and can be deleted and it makes me really sad when that happens

So I’m thinking about a way to build a music listening habit that would go this way :

-listen to music on YouTube on the desktop, discover new music that way and add them to either a playlist of my liked videos playlist

-everytime that happens, the new video’s audio gets downloaded and synced to some kind of offline music listening app so that I can listen to them on the move on my phone. Maybe that could involve a NAS I don’t know enough yet (but I’m thinking about that to self host my pictures on Immich for example).

I really hope I could explain the situation well enough for you guys. I tried hard to look on the subreddit but command lines and ffmepg make my brain melt, I’m really sorry.

Regards!

my yt-dlp is up to date but this not working

The video quality is always low even with setting. Sometimes it randomly fails. Music audio quality from before December is just levels.. That nationwide shutdown really was them pulling the plug on us. I actually called it but everyone in here laughed at me.

Am I wrong somewhere or is the problem not on my side? I remember in 2023, videos downloaded with subtitles without any settings. Now, with the new design, geoblocking, and language separation, things aren't so simple.

If it does work, which commands are responsible for this?

Haven't used yt-dlp since the new cookie issue on Youtube. I was able to pass cookies from Firefox to yt-dlp and managed to make it work using the following format: yt-dlp --cookies cookies.txt "URL"

However, I don't know where to put the additional arguments to make the format work. (-x --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s")

I have tried the following input: yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --cookies cookies.txt "URL", but I get the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" error again. Also tried placing the additional arguments after the cookies.txt part, but they aren't being recognized.

Please let me know what to input so that I can download videos in mp3 format and the proper title formatting.

Many thanks in advance!

Hello, I'm trying to download a youtube playlist and doing it directly from github actions.

I can't pass over cookies error message, even if I downloaded cookies from browser while logged int and stored them in a txt file.

- name: Download playlist audio as MP3
  run: |
    mkdir -p downloads
    ls
    yt-dlp --ignore-errors -x --audio-format mp3 --yes-playlist \
      --sleep-interval 15 --max-sleep-interval 30 \
      --extractor-args "youtube:player_client=default" \
      --cookies cookies.txt \
      -o "downloads/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" \
      "${{ github.event.inputs.playlist_url }}"

The error I get :

WARNING: [youtube] No title found in player responses; falling back to title from initial data. Other metadata may also be missing


ERROR: [youtube] JxnV77BMGYg: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp  for how to manually pass cookies. Also see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies  for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies

Anyone knows anything that helps me to download Instagram videos at best possible from Instagram? Kindly guide me on this I'm an videophile & don't have much experience of downloading videos from social platforms.

Ytdlp provides very low bitrates (2Mbps ) Even providing cookies 🍪. Tell me any working method ? I shall be very thankful to you!

Hi, so, I have this Hard Disk and I wanted to save a video, but every time I have to save the files to the computer to put them on the Hard Disk, is there an easy way for the files to already come out on the Hard Disk? (sorry if my english is bad).

I'm unable to download videos using yt-dlp while connected to ProtonVPN - it appears to be blocking the requests. Has anyone found VPNs that work reliably with yt-dlp? Looking for recommendations from people who've successfully used yt-dlp with a VPN connection.

Or do I have to do something extra to get it to download them?

So i had some animation videos on my channel i made on my tablet before it got factory reset (i think thats the name) and i didnt have time to get a backup, now my tablets back and i lost everything, even on my account logged in it doesnt work. Can I bring it back?

Hello all, I am needing some help with the Seal app. It's been working perfectly for over the last year but here recently I get the error below for every YouTube video I try to download. Other sources work fine, but not any YouTube links. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

App version: 1.13.1-(F-Droid) (11312) Device information: Android 16 (API 36) Supported ABIs: [arm64-v8a] Yt-dlp version: 2025.11.29.232949

WARNING: [youtube] CQZ1vmM_weQ: n challenge solving failed: Some formats may be missing. Ensure you have a supported JavaScript runtime and challenge solver script distribution installed. Review any warnings presented before this message. For more details, refer to WARNING: Only images are available for download. use --list-formats to see them ERROR: [youtube] CQZ1vmM_weQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats

I follow a channel with a permanent live running and with a daily live (usually at the same hour but not always), is there a way to exclude the permanent live with ytarchive using the -monitor-channel command? So I can monitor only for the daily one (mainly because I'm using it from android/termux and it is annoying to copy/paste the url for the daily one each time it is posted or already running).

i download profile playlist using ytdlnis but i have concern... the downloaded files goes to android data folder not in the Downloads ytdlnis command or video folder ....how to make it the default download folder is my storage emulated 0 Downloads....i change the ytdlp settings to set it to my internal storage but still it goes to android data folder favor please thanks to those who like to help😄

Is there a way to view private playlists on YouTube? I don't have access and I'm not the playlist owner.Is there a way to view private playlists on YouTube? I don't have access and I'm not the playlist owner.

I spent a day of scouring the web and struggling to make this process easier, and I finally have beginner-friendly instructions that should be easy to follow. If you've gotten far enough to successfully install yt-dlp, then you're already halfway there!

Here's what I do (I run Windows 10):

1. Run Powershell as an administrator.

2. Type "cd" into the terminal, followed by the address of the directory you want to download your files to, and press Enter. The command below, for example, will change the target directory to your Public Music folder.

   cd C:\Users\Public\Music

3. Next, copy the command below and paste it into the terminal, then replace where it says URL with the actual url of the youtube playlist you want to download (keep the quotation marks), and press Enter.

   yt-dlp.exe -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "URL"

And that's it! If nothing goes wrong, the command will create a new folder in the directory you chose, download the videos as .webm files, then immediately convert them into .mp3s!

I was able to create this by combining the work of two other people here, so let me give credit where it is due: first, to for this post that creates the folder for the playlist:

And second, to for this post which plainly spelled out how to convert the files to .mp3s during the download process:

Hope this helps!

I am trying to download some videos from a streaming service. I found 3 MP4s per video via Inspect/network (no m3u8 vailable): one is only audio (2mb), the other 2 are only video (55mb). For downloading audio-video together, I tried the -S -f commands I found in the forum but they did not work out. Any idea?

Here the results

Hi y'all. Windows 11 Smart App Control (?) has suddenly started blocking yt-dlp.exe from running on my personal computer. I receive the following error message: "yt-dlp.exe was blocked by your organization's Device Guard policy. Contact your support person for more info."

- I'm not using a work / school computer. It doesn't work while using the elevated Command Prompt either.
- I did download the executable file from the official source on GitHub.

As far as I understand, this is related to the fact that yt-dlp.exe is not digitally signed. What should I do?

Edit: A backup file I found (a build from 09/2025) was running correctly. After updating to the latest build it was blocked again.

Edit2: Solved. I was foolishly believing the readme. My mistake.

Edit: Partially solved: I was foolishly running the most recent windows release on the main github. My mistake. Now it will only download .mp4s.

Preface: I'm a casual user trying to download a song from youtube.

What it says in the title. When I try to run yt-dlp normally, I get the "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot." error message (I don't know why, I haven't been doing anything weird with youtube). Before anyone asks, I am on the latest version that is correct for my platform.

Following the (scattered all over the place) instructions to pass cookies has gotten me nowhere. When using the --cookies-from-browser flag, I get the output:

[Cookies] Loading cookie 0/ 294WARNING: failed to decrypt with DPAPI

ERROR: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'decode'"

When I download the cookies to a file to pass with --cookies, I get a bunch of HTTPS 400 error. Yes, the file has the right line feed characters for my platform, and is in netscape format.

Am I missing something, or is passing cookies just broken? In the meantime, is there a good alternative?

ytdlp-jsc is a JS Challenge Provider plugin that does not require a JS runtime.

uv tool install pipx
pipx install yt-dlp
pipx inject yt-dlp ytdlp-jsc


If pipx is not working, you can install it as a plugin.
pip install ytdlp-jsc --target ~/.yt-dlp/plugins/


yt-dlp -F "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnbP7pCIvQ"

[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnbP7pCIvQ
[youtube] BnnbP7pCIvQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] BnnbP7pCIvQ: Downloading tv client config
[youtube] BnnbP7pCIvQ: Downloading player c816c7d8-main
[youtube] BnnbP7pCIvQ: Downloading tv player API JSON
[youtube] BnnbP7pCIvQ: Downloading android sdkless player API JSON
[youtube] [jsc:ytdlp-jsc] Solving JS challenges using ytdlp-jsc
[info] Available formats for BnnbP7pCIvQ:
...

Hi there So I'm trying to download some lofi girl Videos to put while I study they're mostly between 1 and 3 hours long and every website has a 30 minute limit So I came to the best place on the internet to ask if any of you know something I could use ꈍ◡ꈍ I'm on Android BTW

To make a long story short, after using yt-dlp to download my super cool 1000 songs playlist i can't watch videos with my account on youtube

I suppose i got flagged cuz i used my firefox cookies

Also don't get me wrong Im not mad it makes a ton of sense that this happened and i should have thought of that earlier, i just want to know if this is something common and if it is just something temporary, if i should contact youtube support or if i just have to make a new account

I recently installed Brew, yt-dlp, and the ffmpeg, but im still confused on how to even use it. I've been trying to download YouTube videos for edits to use on capcut, they keep coming out as Webm and Im trying to make them mp4's and the best quality. And when I convert the videos from webm to mp4 it takes forever. Is there a way to get YouTube videos high quality, high fps, and mp4 without the hassle of downloading the webm version then trying to convert it to mp4

hello. im currently using ytdlnis and its good. just wondering if you guys know what filename template for songs will include

• album release date

• track release date

• track number (from the album)

• artist name

i tried to edit it myself but nothing is working so i don't know what to do.

I am trying to download an HLS video served as an index.m3u8 playlist from the Spayee CDN (used by rodha.co.in). My goal is to download the video using yt‑dlp, not stream or view it in the browser. I have already extracted the correct master playlist URL from DevTools, confirmed that it references hls_1M_.m3u8 and hls_audio_.m3u8, and verified that the video plays normally on the site. I am passing valid cookies via --cookies cookies.txt, setting the correct --referer , and have also tried user‑agent and header options. yt‑dlp successfully detects the formats and begins downloading fragments, but always fails with ERROR: Incorrect AES key length (64 bytes). This suggests that the AES‑128 key request is returning non‑key data instead of a valid 16‑byte key. I have also tested ffmpeg directly and browser HLS tools, which detect the stream but fail during decryption. I am trying to understand whether this is a known Spayee CDN protection pattern, and if there is any known yt‑dlp workaround to retrieve the correct AES key or handle this type of tokenized HLS encryption.

I wanted to try yt-dlp as a way to download a vk video, knowing i have no knowledge of coding and i simply follow instructions that i write on the cmd. The download starts but it doesn't even reach 300 kb/s. What can I do to make download speed faster ?