youtube-dl-mp4-mp3

for a simpler youtube-dl

This script will download the best quality audio, video and thumbnail, using youtube-dl, from a YouTube video URL that you provide.

Combine them together using ffmpeg into an mp4 video with mp3 audio with the thumbnail as the YouTube Video provided

or

An mp3 audio file with the video's thumbnail as album art.

Tested on

This script as been tested on the following linux distros as a sudo user.

• Ubuntu server 20.04
• Ubuntu server 18.04
• Ubuntu Desktop 20.04
• Ubuntu Desktop 18.04
• Debian 10.9

TLDR

• Tested on debian
• Easy to use

Getting started

1. Install the script

Quick Install

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/diyaa59/youtube-dl-mp4-mp3/main/install.sh)

Manual Install

# Install ffmpeg, git, atomicparsley, python
sudo apt install -y ffmpeg git atomicparsley python

# make a directory and move into it
mkdir ~/script
cd ~/script

# Download the repo and enter it's directory
git clone https://github.com/diyaa59/youtube-dl-mp4-mp3.git
cd youtube-dl-mp4-mp3

# Give the script execute permissions.
chmod +x bin/youtube-dl-mp4-mp3

# Add ~/script/youtube-dl-mp4-mp3/bin/ to your user PATH variable.
echo 'export PATH=~/script/youtube-dl-mp4-mp3/bin/:$PATH'  | tee -a ~/.bashrc > /dev/null

2. Run the Script

youtube-dl-mp4-mp3

3. Follow instructions in terminal

Update Script

cd ~/script/youtube-dl-mp4-mp3
git pull