Download Audio from YouTube with youtube-dl

youtube-dl-download-audio-only-on-best-quality.md

Download Audio from YouTube

-i - ignore errors

-c - continue

-t - use video title as file name

--extract-audio - extract audio track

--audio-format mp3 - convert to mp3

--audio-quality 0 - the best audio quality

--yes-playlist - affirm that url points to a playlist

YT_URL - video url from youtube

# Download single entry
youtube-dl -i --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 YT_URL

# Download playlist
youtube-dl -ict --yes-playlist --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUCvVpbYRgYjMN7mG7qQN0Pg

# Download playlist, --download-archive downloaded.txt add successfully downloaded files into downloaded.txt
youtube-dl --download-archive downloaded.txt --no-overwrites -ict --yes-playlist --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --socket-timeout 5 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUCvVpbYRgYjMN7mG7qQN0Pg

# Retry until success, no -i option
while ! youtube-dl --download-archive downloaded.txt --no-overwrites -ct --yes-playlist --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --socket-timeout 5 <YT_PlayList_URL>; do echo DISCONNECTED; sleep 5; done

AWESOME!!! thanks a lot! ;-)

Thanks for sharing your information. It helps me a lot. But I do prefer https://tubegeter.com/ Because this is the easiest way to download videos from YouTube. You can try it.

But you do say that it will convert to MP3. From what format, AAC?

This would make you lose some quality, right?

Use

-o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"

instead of -t option, to avoid the video ID in the filename.

but it says .web not .mp3 ?

this doesnt works anymore, at least with some playlist like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9szNGXja85M&list=RDn4Xp6g-_UUw (notice link https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDn4Xp6g-_UUw doesnt works at all) is this maybe a new move from youtube now miserably try to sell possibility to listen music with screen off?

Aliases bash. youtube.com/arch

Track

mp3 () {
	youtube-dl --ignore-errors -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o '~/Music/youtube/%(title)s.%(ext)s' "$1"
}

mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_b6SpGr4-c

Playlist

mp3p () {
	youtube-dl --ignore-errors -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o '~/Music/youtube/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' "$1"
}

album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F7A24f6gNc&list=RD-F7A24f6gNc

dlv () {
	youtube-dl --ignore-errors -o '~/Videos/youtube/%(title)s.%(ext)s' "$1"
}

dlp () {
	youtube-dl --ignore-errors -o '~/Videos/youtube/%(playlist)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' "$1"
}

WARNING: --title is deprecated. Use -o "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" instead.

well done friends, thank you for done this stuff :D

as far as i know the web service: https://video-box.org is using youtube-dl on the server side

I get extractor errors for extracting an mp3 unless I use this code
youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3

hello, the file is saving in the /Users/ directory; is there a way to modify that?

my man

How to do the same thing with code? I have trouble extracting audio from the videos.

HI guys! Is there a config file for youtube-dl?!

Yes, it is.

See the configuration part:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#readme

Thank you so match its work for my playlist.. :)

thx

Grazie mille!

Great stuff! Added this to my aliases in aliasrc.
yt="youtube-dl --add-metadata -i"
yta="youtube-dl -i --extract-audio --audio-format-mp3 --audio-auality 0" \

Hi there, I have used very recently youtube-dl to extract a audio as mp3 - obs you need to have ffmpeg for this to work properly.
--> youtube-dl -x --embed-thumbnail --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOID

thank you, simple and useful

When using the following command I'm getting an error.

youtube-dl -i --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 YT_URL (This happens with any YouTube URL I use)

ERROR: ffprobe/avprobe and ffmpeg/avconv not found. Please install one.

How can ffprobe/avprobe and ffmpeg/avconv?

When using the following command I'm getting an error.

youtube-dl -i --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 YT_URL (This happens with any YouTube URL I use)

ERROR: ffprobe/avprobe and ffmpeg/avconv not found. Please install one.

How can ffprobe/avprobe and ffmpeg/avconv?

Hi @rcortezk9 have installed ffmpeg on your system ?? Try to install then run the command again.. If you in Linux/Ubuntu

-$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg,

• or $ snap install ffmpeg
• or if you on Mac - do $ brew install ffmpeg

Bear in mind that you need to have Snap installed or Brew for it work**

What about -f bestaudio? That seems to download the audio only version for me. The format is opus in webm container, not mp3, but that's okay with me, as most players work with it. I can convert to mp3 later if required.

Added --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata for infos

https://askubuntu.com/questions/634584/how-to-download-youtube-videos-as-a-best-quality-audio-mp3-using-youtube-dl