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I can share to Termux from the YouTube app on my Pixel and download an entire playlist to my music folder - Ffmpeg handles any audio. It's quicker than any of
by 0x38B 7y ago
I can share to Termux from the YouTube app on my Pixel and download an entire playlist to my music folder - Ffmpeg handles any audio.
It's quicker than any of the YouTube downloader apps I've tried!
How it works: in ~/bin there's a termux-url-opener script that handles what you share:
"#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
*youtu*)
echo "$1 is a YouTube URL,
downloading"
sh ~/shortcuts/dl_yt.sh $1
..."
(dl_yt just calls youtube-dl -x)
I love it and am still finding new uses for Termux. I've got neovim and all my dotfiles loaded, so in a pinch I can ssh into my phone to do some work.
- chronogram 7y agoWould it not be nicer to save a whole lot on bandwidth by using "youtube-dl -f bestaudio[ext=m4a]" instead of "youtube-dl -x"?
- 0x38B 7y agoGood point! My command line looks like this: youtube-dl -f bestaudio -x --no-progress -o "~/storage/music/YouTube/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$1" This generally gives me .opus files, which play OK but my player can't change the tags.
- Ycros 7y agoAh, nice to see I'm not the only one running youtube-dl on a phone via Termux.