

The right-click and open ffmpeg so that macOS will recognise and allow it to be run.Ĥ) For M1 macs/Monterey install a recent non-beta copy of Python from (around 40 MB). Sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dlģ) Install ffmpeg for converting file formats:ĭownload ffmpeg and copy it to /usr/local/bin/ Or the alternative YT-DLP fork with some extra features and prettier output: ( If /usr/local/bin does not already exist, then create it with sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin ) Sudo curl -L -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl Installationġ) Download youtube-dl to /usr/local/bin/ The files are downloaded to the current directory. version Print program version and exit.Ībove is a summary of the options, for a full list including network/proxy/filtering options, run youtube-dl -help Sufficient permissions (run with sudo if needed.) U, -update Update this program to latest version. sleep-interval SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each download. console-title Display progress in console titlebar. no-mtime Set the file last modified date/time to the download date/time.

write-annotations Write video annotations to a. write-info-json Write video metadata to a. write-description Write video description to a. w, -no-overwrites Do not overwrite files.

restrict-filenames Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and a, -batch-file FILE File containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin.) yes-playlist Download the playlist, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist. no-playlist Download only the video, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist. abort-on-error Cancel downloading of further videos (in the playlist or the i, -ignore-errors Continue on download errors, for example to skip unavailable f, -format FORMAT Video format code, see example below. F, -list-formats List all available formats. Cross platform utility to download video+audio either single files or entire playlists.
