Setting up youtube-dl for downloading videos and MP3s from Youtube Videos, on macOS
Download and configure youtube-dl:
(Ref.: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)
(Requires ffmpeg pre-installed for the mp3 conversion to work).
Download the latest nightly into ~/youtube-dl and add proper aliases:
From https://github.com/ytdl-org/ytdl-nightly/releases/latest, download the latest "youtube-dl" file.
Now it was https://github.com/ytdl-org/ytdl-nightly/releases/download/2024.04.22/youtube-dl.
latestnightly="https://github.com/ytdl-org/ytdl-nightly/releases/download/2024.04.22/youtube-dl" mkdir -p ~/youtube-dl curl -L $latestnightly -o ~/youtube-dl/youtube-dl echo 'alias youtube-dl="python3 ~/youtube-dl/youtube-dl"' >> ~/.zshrc echo 'alias yt2mp3="python3 ~/youtube-dl/youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3"' >> ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc
Now to use this, just run the command 'youtube-dl'.
To download a youtube video, make sure you add double quotes around the URL, as in
youtube-dl ""
To download a video and convert it to mp3,
ytmp3 ""
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