Twitter and YouTube download
First intall yt-dlp (that’s youtube-dl fork based on the inactive youtube-dlc)
brew install yt-dlp
Download video
Download the best video quality with the best extension - for video, mp4
> webm
> flv
or for audio, m4a
> aac
> mp3
:
yt-dlp -S "ext" -o "~/Download/%(title)s.%(ext)s" [URL]
Extract MP3 audio from YouTube video
Get the best audio quality into mp3
file:
yt-dlp -f "ba" -x --audio-format mp3 [URL]
Download other formats
First you need to list all available formats with:
yt-dlp --list-formats [URL]
then download them using --format
or -f
parameter:
yt-dlp --format mp4 [URL]
Other useful commands
If you will need to update yt-dlp
use:
yt-dlp -U