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Get YouTube download URL-s of video and audio
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youtube-download.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Save HTML
wget -O watch.html "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
# Extract player data
sed -n -e 's#.*var ytInitialPlayerResponse = \({[^<]\+}\);</script>.*#\1#p' <watch.html >video.json
# For HTML from the browser
#sed -n -e 's#.*var ytInitialPlayerResponse = \({[^<]\+}\);var meta = .*#\1#p' <watch.html >video.json
# Get URL for best video format
jq -r '."streamingData"."adaptiveFormats"[] | select(."itag" == 298) | ."url"' video.json
#jq -r '."streamingData"."adaptiveFormats"[] | select(."itag" == 137) | ."url"' video.json
# Get URL for best audio format
jq -r '."streamingData"."adaptiveFormats"[] | select(."itag" == 140) | ."url"' video.json
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