Help with YT-DLP

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Fri Feb 4 22:46:00 UTC 2022


My usual youtube-dl line is as follows
yt-dlp -ciw -x --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" <video-link>
This names the file as title.mp3
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From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 17:19:23 -0500
Subject: Re: Help with YT-DLP

> Thank you Chrys,

That fixed it.

Now I need to find out how to have the video named, instead of just
letters and numbers.

Thanks,

Rob


On 2/4/22 16:57, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Howdy Rob,
>
> Well there is an open single tick but missing the closing one in -o parameter. So the string is not terminated.
>
> Cheers chrys
>
>> Am 04.02.2022 um 22:40 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>:
>>
>> ?Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to use yt-dlp to convert YouTube video to mp3.
>>
>> I installed the latest version of yt-dlp using the info below.
>>
>> sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
>>
>> sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
>>
>> update command
>> yt-dlp -U
>>
>> When I use the below command, I get nothing but a greater than sign.
>>
>> yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ -o '%(id)s.mp3
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
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