# My youtube-dl scripts.md

My youtube-dl scripts

• video-dl - download videos via yt-dlp using aria2c with multiple connections.
• playlist-dl - download playlist into folder using video-dl.

Works in WSL2.

Installation:

curl https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp
sudo mv yt-dlp /usr/bin
sudo apt install -y python-aria2c ffmpeg

playlist-dl

#!/usr/bin/env bash
ROOT_DIR=$( (cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd -P) )
"$ROOT_DIR/video-dl" -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "$@"

video-dl

#!/usr/bin/env bash
yt-dlp --external-downloader=aria2c \
  --external-downloader-args '--min-split-size=1M --max-connection-per-server=16 --max-concurrent-downloads=16 --split=16' \
  --no-part --write-thumbnail --embed-chapters \
  "$@"

aria2c --min-split-size=1M --max-connection-per-server=16 --max-concurrent-downloads=16 --split=16 "$@"