Short shell script to speed up youtube-dl using axel (using multiple connections) Warning: Won't work for downloading playlists etc. in current form

youtube-dl-speedup.sh

#!/bin/sh                                                                                            

CONNECTIONS=5 # Specify how many connections axel should use                                         

# Get URL and Title of video using youtube-dl                                                        
url=`youtube-dl --get-url $1`
echo "Got URL"
title=`youtube-dl --get-title $1`
echo "Got Title :"$title

# Download using axel                                                                                
axel --alternate --num-connections=$CONNECTIONS --output="$title.mp4" "$url"