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  • B_DL@lemmynsfw.com
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    8 days ago

    I’m new to yt-dlp. Care to share your flags? I’m a little confused on which ones I actually need.

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      8 days ago

      I mean, you don’t need anything; it’ll work with no flags. I have these:

      $ cat ~/.config/yt-dlp/config
      --embed-subs
      --embed-metadata
      --embed-chapters
      --embed-thumbnail
      --sponsorblock-mark=all
      $
      

      That’ll just embed some useful metadata in the file.

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      8 days ago

      I’m a filthy Windows user that’s too lazy to migrate my main PC to Fedora.

      > Path\to\yt-dlp.exe -P <target directory> <URL>
      

      Multiple URLs can be separated by spaces. Put any URLs with ampersands in quotes or remove the ampersand and following arguments.

      You can find a list of all the arguments on the yt-dlp github page