How do I download just the webm's from a playlist?

[tripleo1]

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How do I download just the webm's from a playlist? vlc plays webm's just fine and I am using too much download bandwith.

[Battleman]

Hi. Your question is a bit unclear. Here is my guess, let me know if that is correct:

• You are using Youtube
• You have a playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...)
• You want to download only the audio ..
• .. of all the videos in the playlist

if that's the case, first you should check what formats are available on those videos. For that:youtub-dl -F https://your-url-here`

It will list all format available for each video. Then, select the one that fits you (I would guess 251, that is webm audio only or correct quality), and input youtube-dl -f 251 https://your-url-here. Note the lowercase f, compared to the uppercase from before.

Obviously, replace 251 by any other number that matches your wish, from the list that was outputed by the first command.

Hope that helps. LMK if I misunderstood your question.

[tripleo1]

I want to download a playlist in the background (it is quite large), and only in a format which doesn't have to be recombined. I think vlc plays webm's just fine. So -F (assuming it works) would prompt me on every video.

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On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 5:49 AM Olivier Cloux ***@***.***> wrote: Hi. Your question is a bit unclear. Here is my guess, let me know if that is correct: - You are using Youtube - You have a playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...) - You want to download only the audio .. - .. of all the videos in the playlist if that's the case, first you should check what formats are available on those videos. For that:youtub-dl -F https://your-url-here` It will list all format available for each video. Then, select the one that fits you (I would guess 251, that is webm audio only or correct quality), and input youtube-dl -f 251 https://your-url-here. Note the lowercase *f*, compared to the uppercase from before. Obviously, replace 251 by any other number that matches your wish, from the list that was outputed by the first command. Hope that helps. LMK if I misunderstood your question. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#26088 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AL73FMYZMO7L4QVWIBEZHYDR5ABTFANCNFSM4PFITGSQ> .

[remitamine]

read https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#format-selection.

[tripleo1]

So -f 'best[ext=webm]' ??