[NFBCS] Is it possible to download videos from YouTube?

[Michael McQuaid]

Youtube accepts uploads in many formats. If you want to guarantee that you
get mp3 output, there are several steps to take.

1. Install ffmpeg or avconv. Either of these is necessary to convert any
non-mp3 output to mp3 (or any of half a dozen other formats). If it is in
your path, it will be used transparently by youtube-dl.

2. Give the command line option --extract-audio

3. Also give the command line option --audio-format mp3

So the command might, for example, look like

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 http://youtu.be/qpwoeiruk

Hope this helps.

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 8:35 AM Tracy Carcione via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> What format does Youtube-dl put the file in, if you only want audio? MP3?
> Tracy
>
>
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> From: NFBCS [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Cannon
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> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Is it possible to download videos from YouTube?
>
> Yes, youtube-dl is the way to go here. It's a commandline program, so
> hopefully you are comfortable with that. There is an option to only
> download the audio. You can then open the audio track in Goldwave, or
> another audio editor of your choice, and chop out the bits you want.
>
> youtube-dl is a very popular program, so Google is your friend here.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Aaron
>
> On 11/25/20, Michael McQuaid via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> > Youtube-dl is a popular command line tool for downloading Youtube videos.
> >
> > I'm not sure what constitutes an accessible video editor. I would
> probably
> > use Quicktime Player for a simple edit. If you know the exact times of
> the
> > segments to extract, ffmpeg is a reliable command line video editor that
> is
> > definitely accessible, although with a lot of arcane command line options
> > that take a while to master.
> >
> > - Mick
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 6:34 PM Jim Portillo via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Good afternoon,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Here's the deal.
> >>
> >> Someone posted a video on YouTube of him doing a kind of living room
> >> concert. There are a few songs I'd like to get from that video without
> >> having to watch the whole thing over and over, just to get those songs.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to first download the entire video from YouTube and save
> >> it
> >> to my computer? Then, is there a way to maybe use a program like Total
> >> Recorder or some other thing to edit what I have on my computer and get
> >> those two or three particular things I want from it?
> >>
> >> I've done some google searching, but I'm leery about downloading just
> any
> >> freeware program without knowing about it or seeing if anyone else has
> >> done
> >> something similar.
> >>
> >> If I can convert that video to audio, that would be very cool as well,
> >> but
> >> not necessary.
> >>
> >> What do you guys think?
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> >>
> >>
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