CLI scripts to help make yt-dlp simpler and more user friendly.
mp4, mp4 compressed, webm format options.
Playlist updator (run the script again with the same playlist)
Ease of use
OSes that have these package managers are supported:
apt: Debian/Ubuntu based
dnf: RHEL/Fedora based
pacman: Arch based
emerge: Gentoo based
NOTE: This does not mean the software will not work if you don't use these package managers. It means that the dependancies will not be automatically installed when using the install-deps.sh or install.sh scripts.
curl https://archuser.org/yt-dlp-utils/get-install.sh | bash
./install.sh
This will download install.sh and verify its SHA256 signature.
If it is valid, running it clones the repo to /tmp then installs from there.
The repo will automatically be removed from /tmp so no user interaction necessary.
If the script's SHA256 signature doesn't match, it is deleted.
git clone https://github.com/firebadnofire/yt-dlp-utils.git
cd yt-dlp-utils
./install-deps.sh
sudo make install
You may now remove the yt-dlp-utils directory.
curl https://archuser.org/yt-dlp-utils/get-uninstall.sh | bash
./uninstall.sh
git clone https://github.com/firebadnofire/yt-dlp-utils.git
cd yt-dlp-utils
sudo make uninstall
Run yt-music to download music
Run yt-video to download videos
Run video-flags DIR URL to download videos (DIR is the directory to save to, URL is the video url)
Run music-flags DIR URL to download music (DIR is the directory to save to, URL is the video url)
Run yt-gui in your terminal to pop up a window which will ask you for your download type, directory to save to, and video URL.
~/.config/ytdlputils houses configuration files after first running yt-music and yt-video
ffmpeg yt-dlp
You will need to install these with the provided install-deps.sh script or install.sh script.
Screen is highly recommended when downloading large music/video files. Screen allows you to run commands and leave them in the background while still being able to resume the command. The command will still be running when you exit a screen.
To use screen with either script, put screen -mS "yt-dlp" before you run the script. Ex: screen -mS "yt-dlp" ./yt-music.
To exit the screen, run ctrl+a then d, to resume the screen, run screen -r yt-dlp.
-m: create a new screen session, -S: name screen session, "yt-dlp": name of screen session. Anything after "yt-dlp" will be run inside the screen session. The screen session will terminate when the command is finished.
If your terminal outputs the following message:
Your software is out of date! Pull the latest repo to update!
that means you need to pull the latest version from github.
To do so, run git clone https://github.com/FireBADnoFire/yt-dlp-utils.git then cd into the yt-dlp-utils directory and run sudo make uninstall to remove old scripts. Then run sudo make install to install new scripts.