>>938108Here's simple, non-bullshit instruction for youtube-dl for retards:
Download youtube-dl.exe and ffmpeg.exe:
http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.htmlhttps://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-release-full-shared.7zPut them in C:\Windows\ (so command prompt can find them). Youtube-dl needs ffmpeg.exe to re-encode videos to different formats.
OPTIONALLY, create a file at C:\Users\<your-user-name>\youtube-dl.conf, and put this in it:
-f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best"
--write-sub
--embed-sub
--sub-lang='en'
--add-metadata
--ignore-errors
Not necessary, but it's just my preferences. This 1) downloads in the best quality, 2) adds (soft) subtitles to the video file if there are any, 3) prefers English subtitles, 4) adds metadata to the video file (e.g. the description on YouTube), and 5) doesn't stop downloading a playlist if it encounters an error with one of the videos (e.g. deleted video).
That's all the setup done. Now, whenever you want to download a video, navigate to where you want to download it to, hold right shift, right click, and click "open command window here" (on Windows 10 I think it's PowerShell, but that doesn't matter). Then type:
youtube-dl <video or playlist URL>
Or, to download the audio in the best available quality:
youtube-dl -x <video or playlist URL>
The '-x' is short for 'eXtract audio'.
youtube-dl works on pretty much any site you can think of, not just YouTube. If you want a list, type 'youtube-dl --list-extractors'.
