yt-dlp — Command Builder

This page will help you build a yt-dlp command. It will not run it—you'll have to run it yourself.

It is assumed that:

You know what yt-dlp is and does.
yt-dlp is installed on your computer as a PATH variable.
ffmpeg is installed on your computer as a PATH variable.
You know how to use the terminal.

If you have more questions about usage, go see the official documentation. If you want to contribute on this project, you can!

What to download

Video URL (Paste URL from clipboard)

Is it a playlist?

Audio Parameters

Note: If you don't want to download only the audio, leave these fields blank.

Convert to audio?Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe)

Audio FormatFormat to convert the audio to when -x is used. (currently supported: best (default), aac, alac, flac, m4a, mp3, opus, vorbis, wav).

Video Parameters

Video Format (Restore default?)Resolution and audio. Default value will get the best video resolution up to 1080p, along with the best audio.

Convert video

More details

Video Format

Filtering Video Formats: You can choose the quality of the video you want to download. For example, if you want a high-quality video, you can type -f "best[height=720]". If you want a video that is larger than 10MB, you can type -f "[filesize>10M]".
Comparisons: You can use symbols like <, <=, >, >=, =, != to compare the video's properties. For example, height<480 means the video's height is less than 480 pixels.
Meta Fields: These are properties of the video. Some examples are filesize (how big the video file is), width (how wide the video is), height (how tall the video is), and fps (how many frames per second the video has). You can use these fields in your filters.
String Comparisons: You can also filter videos based on text properties. For example, url (the web address of the video), ext (the video file's extension), acodec (the audio codec used), and vcodec (the video codec used). You can use symbols like =, ^=, $=, *=, ~=, != to compare these properties.
Grouping Selectors: You can group format selectors using parentheses. For example, -f "(mp4,webm)[height<480]" will download the best mp4 or webm video that is less than 480 pixels tall.

Remember, not all these properties are always available for every video. It depends on the information provided by the website you're downloading from. If a property is not known, you can add a question mark (?) after the operator. For example, height<=?720 selects videos up to 720p, or videos where the height is not known.

Misc

Split chaptersSplit video into multiple files based on internal chapters. The "chapter:" prefix can be used with "--paths" and "--output" to set the output filename for the split files.

Show advanced settings

Advanced

Remux VideoRemux the video into another container if necessary (currently supported: avi, flv, gif, mkv, mov, mp4, webm, aac, aiff, alac, flac, m4a, mka, mp3, ogg, opus, vorbis, wav). If target container does not support the video>audio codec, remuxing will fail. You can specify multiple rules; e.g. "aac>m4a/mov>mp4/mkv" will remux aac to m4a, mov to mp4 and anything else to mkv

Format Sort

Postprocessor ArgsGive these arguments to the postprocessors. Specify the postprocessor/executable name and the arguments separated by a colon ":" to give the argument to the specified postprocessor/executable. Supported PP are: Merger, ModifyChapters, SplitChapters, ExtractAudio, VideoRemuxer, VideoConvertor, Metadata, EmbedSubtitle, EmbedThumbnail, SubtitlesConvertor, ThumbnailsConvertor, FixupStretched, FixupM4a, FixupM3u8, FixupTimestamp and FixupDuration. The supported executables are: AtomicParsley, FFmpeg and FFprobe. You can also specify "PP+EXE:ARGS" to give the arguments to the specified executable only when being used by the specified postprocessor. Additionally, for ffmpeg/ffprobe, "_i"/"_o" can be appended to the prefix optionally followed by a number to pass the argument before the specified input/output file, e.g. --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet". You can use this option multiple times to give different arguments to different postprocessors. (Alias: --ppa)

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Generated Command:

Paste the above in the terminal, hit enter, and you should be good to go!

Some comments about the generated command:

--no-mtime means that the "modified date" of the file on Windows will be the date when you downloaded the file, as opposed to the default behavior, which would be to keep the upload date.
-o "~/Downloads/%(title)s.%(ext)s" means that the output file will be name like Never Gonna Give You Up.mp4 and will be placed in your default Downloads folder.