Author

Tony Duan

Published

March 11, 2025

yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites. The project is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now inactive youtube-dlc.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Download yt-dlp

Code

!pip install -U "yt-dlp[default]"

update yt-dlp

Code

!pip install yt-dlp --upgrade

check version

Code

!yt-dlp --version

Start download youtube

download video

Code

!yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULRVwRmfCmM'

download video to mp3 format

Code

!yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkOpwodhROI'

download video with timestamp

Code

!yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome --download-sections '*00:02-03:00' 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkOpwodhROI'

download video to mp4 with timestamp

Code

!yt-dlp -f mp4 --cookies-from-browser chrome  --download-sections '*00:02-03:00'  'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkOpwodhROI'

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---
title: "Youtube下载工具：yt-dlp"
subtitle: "Youtube download tool:yt-dlp"
author: "Tony Duan"

date: "2025-03-11"

categories: 
  - Tool
  - R
  - Python
  

  
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  error: false
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image: 'images/download.jpg'
---

yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for [thousands of sites](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md). The project is a fork of [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) based on the now inactive [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc).

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

# Download yt-dlp


```{python}
!pip install -U "yt-dlp[default]"
```

# update yt-dlp

```{python}
!pip install yt-dlp --upgrade
```

# check version

```{python}
!yt-dlp --version
```


## Start download youtube

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# Command line


## download video

```{python}
!yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULRVwRmfCmM'
```

## download video to mp3 format

```{python}
!yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkOpwodhROI'
```

## download video with timestamp


```{python}
!yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome --download-sections '*00:02-03:00' 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkOpwodhROI'
```


## download video to mp4 with timestamp


```{python}
!yt-dlp -f mp4 --cookies-from-browser chrome  --download-sections '*00:02-03:00'  'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkOpwodhROI'
```



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