Download VIA CLI On Linux

by jamied_uk 19th July 2024, 12:23

Setting up yt dl using bashrc

Code:: mkdir /home/jay/Documents/Scripts/yt-dl cd /home/jay/Documents/Scripts/yt-dl git clone https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl.git

Code:: sudo gedit ~/.bashrc function yt(){ present=$(pwd) cd /home/jay/Documents/Scripts/PYTHON/yt-dl python -m venv myenv source myenv/bin/activate # Check if URL is provided if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "Usage: yt <URL> or -f file.ext" return 1 fi pip install yt_dlp python dl.py $1 mv *.mp4 ~/Downloads # Use yt-dlp to download the video #sudo yt-dlp -f bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4] -o "/home/jay/Downloads/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$1" cd $present }