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yt-dlp

About

Download videos and audio from YouTube and 1000+ other sites. Save clips for offline viewing or extract just the soundtrack.

Pricing

Free

yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line video downloader that works with YouTube and more than a thousand other sites. It is the actively maintained fork of youtube-dl and can grab single videos, playlists or just the audio.

Key Features

  • 1000+ supported sites — YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok and more.
  • Best-quality downloads including 4K.
  • Audio-only extraction as MP3 or M4A.
  • Playlists and channels in one go.
  • Subtitles and metadata included.
  • Resumable and throttling-friendly.

Pricing

yt-dlp is free and open source under the Unlicense.

Getting Started

brew install yt-dlp
yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
yt-dlp -f "bv*+ba/b" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID

Add -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' to control where and how files are named.

Install

Copy and run one of these commands locally to install yt-dlp.

brew install yt-dlp

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