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If the author sees this: with yt-dlp you can download lower quality versions of videos to save bandwidth, like so: yt-dlp -f "bv[height<=720]" <url> (where
by amatecha 2y ago
If the author sees this: with yt-dlp you can download lower quality versions of videos to save bandwidth, like so:
yt-dlp -f "bv[height<=720]" <url>
(where <url> is your URL or video ID)
That will download up to 720p quality.
- doctor_phil 2y agoThe author mentions just downloading the audio track. That's a lot less data than downloading any video at all. ;)
- jordigh 2y ago-f 140 is the right yt-dlp parameter to get just the audio.
- woodson 2y agoI think it's just "-x". It should select the best audio quality automatically.
- amatecha 2y agoOh, I missed that! In that case, yt-dlp -x <url> .. or optionally to convert it to mp3 on the fly: yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 <url> .. or doing so with also the best audio quality available: yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 <url>