youtube - vods

notes

• due to youtube frequently updating their service, yt-dlp will occasionally stop working. if you ever encounter issues when attempting to download a video, make sure to update yt-dlp to the latest version and try again. this will fix the problem 99% of the time.

requirements

• yt-dlp

method

1. install yt-dlp and add it to your PATH
2. create a yt-dlp config file in the appropriate location and add the following options to it

--output "[%(upload_date)s] %(title).200B [%(id)s].%(ext)s"
--ignore-errors
--no-playlist
--embed-metadata
--embed-subs
--sub-langs "en.*"

note: while these are some sensible defaults that I highly recommend, using a config file is entirely optional

3. copy the page url and use it in the following command to begin downloading

yt-dlp <url>