How to force youtube-dl to download YouTube content through its Android app?

[Sepehr2016]

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YouTube website is banned here and I have to use a proxy to access it via my web browser or youtube-dl to work, but ironically the YouTube Android application on phones and tablets work like a charm without using any proxies at all and videos get loaded much much faster as they are directly loaded without a proxy in between. I'm looking for a way to force youtube-dl to download videos like if it was the YouTube app, as I often get errors while I'm downloading videos through a proxy in youtube-dl.

Also another little question is, is there a way to pause and resume youtube-dl downloads like IDM (Internet Download Manager)?

[dstftw]

You can't make youtube-dl download through android app. Ctrl+C for pause and rerun for resume.

[Sepehr2016]

I meant resuming it after a download error in the middle of the download.

[jonsag]

Sepehr2016: youtube-dl does resume when interrupted.