How to install yt-dlp

yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, it can be used to download videos from youtube and many other similar websites. yt-dlp is more actively developed.

To install yt-dlp on Ubuntu, run

pip install yt-dlp

To download a video, you can use the command

yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID

To see all availabe formats

yt-dlp -F https://youtu.be/ykeW7Jw1K6E

To download audio only

yt-dlp -f 140 https://youtu.be/ykeW7Jw1K6E