For the record, if you only use youtube-dl for the purposes of downloading audio (like me), then you can keep a config file in $HOME/.config/youtube-dl/config w

For the record, if you only use youtube-dl for the purposes of downloading audio (like me), then you can keep a config file in $HOME/.config/youtube-dl/config with default arguments so you don't have to look them up each time. For example, here's a sample from my config: # extract audio only -x # stick to mp3 --audio-format mp3 # get rid of the annoying URL stuff at the end -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"