yt-dlp Snippets

Best Video & Audio

To grab the best quality audio and video and merge them automatically into a single file.

yt-dlp -f "bestvideo+bestaudio" <url>

Download the best quality video in .mp4 format.

yt-dlp -f "best[ext=mp4]" <url>

Download the best quality video in .mp4 format, along with English subtitles (if available), from the given URL.

yt-dlp -f "best[ext=mp4]" --write-sub --sub-lang en <url>

The command will extract the audio from the video at the given URL and save it in the MP3 format.

yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 <url>

The command will extract the audio from the video at the given URL, remove all sponsor segments using SponsorBlock, and save the audio in MP3 format.

yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove all -x --audio-format mp3 <url>