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YouTube DL snippets

Download MP3 of video

youtube-dl <VIDEO-URL> --extract-audio --audio-format mp3

To download entire playlist as MP3

youtube-dl --ignore-errors --format bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 160K --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --yes-playlist '<YouTube playlist URL>'

Find different file qualitites of video

youtube-dl -F <VIDEO-URL>

Download video with selected quality

youtube-dl -f <QUALITY-#> <VIDEO-URL>

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