The Data Horde Team – Data Horde https://datahorde.org Join the Horde! Wed, 12 May 2021 23:23:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://datahorde.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-DataHorde_Logo_small-32x32.png The Data Horde Team – Data Horde https://datahorde.org 32 32 Archive (almost) Any Video on the Internet with YouTube-DL https://datahorde.org/archive-almost-any-video-on-the-internet-with-youtube-dl/ https://datahorde.org/archive-almost-any-video-on-the-internet-with-youtube-dl/#respond Sat, 11 Apr 2020 12:00:00 +0000 https://datahorde.org/?p=264 YouTube-DL is a popular, open-source tool for downloading and archiving videos on the Internet. Contrary to its name, YouTube-DL doesn’t just support downloading videos from YouTube. It actually supports downloading videos from hundreds of sites with more being added frequently. It also supports downloading videos from direct links.

How do I get YouTube-DL?

You can get YouTube-DL by downloading it from its official site. Alternatively, you can install it through the Python package manager by typing pip install youtube_dl in a command line.

YouTube-DL requires a recent version of Python installed on your system. In addition, YouTube-DL requires ffmpeg or avconv to download videos from some sites.

How do I use YouTube-DL?

YouTube-DL is a command-line program. Once installed, you can use it by typing youtube-dl <video url>. Additional options, such as selecting video quality, downloading subtitles, or downloading only audio, are documented in the project’s README file or by typing youtube-dl --help.

YouTube-DL also provides a Python module for use within scripts.

We hope you enjoyed this introduction to YouTube-DL. Happy archiving!

Note: Data Horde only endorses the use of YouTube-DL for legitimate archiving purposes, and does not condone piracy or other violations of copyright and/or other laws.

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