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Or even shorter: youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 OKbtC223e30

• Strom 12y ago
  In general youtube-dl is great, but that short id input handling is broken, as evidenced by this: youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 -fCtvurGDD8
  • rossy 12y ago
    Because it interprets video IDs that start with a dash as short options? This should be better: youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 -- -fCtvurGDD8
  • ekimekim 12y ago
    Like many tools, youtube-dl supports a -- flag to indicate "the remaining arguments are not flags". So your example would work as: youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 -- -fCtvurGDD8
  • phihag_ 12y ago
    As others have pointed out, you'll need -- in this case. However, there's really no reason why youtube-dl should not detect this common problem (we also try to detect when users forget to quote URLs with ampersands). Update to youtube-dl 2014.11.23.1 or newer and try this again ;) By the way, the GitHub issue tracker (https://yt-dl.org/bug https://yt-dl.org/bug ) is usually a better place to report issues. But just for youtube-dl reaching #1 on HN, I'll make an exception.