{"id":1306,"date":"2022-03-06T02:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T10:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmr.dev\/blog\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2022-07-25T02:54:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T09:54:07","slug":"easiest-way-to-download-youtube-videos-and-convert-them-to-any-format-including-mp3-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/2022\/03\/06\/easiest-way-to-download-youtube-videos-and-convert-them-to-any-format-including-mp3-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Easiest way to download YouTube videos and convert them to any format including .mp3 in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Methods of downloading YouTube videos have changed over the years. Here are two of my preferred methods for doing so in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

tl;dr: easy<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use a Youtube-Mp3 converter site, if you know how to Google then you’ve probably found one of these already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

tl;dr: is asked to fix printers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get the latest ‘youtube-dl’ fork like yt-dlp<\/a>. Use ffmpeg<\/a> to convert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Easy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yeah there’s really nothing else you need here<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Other Method<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. Get yt-dlp<\/a>. Put it in a folder somewhere in C:\\<\/code> like ‘youtubedownload’. Rename the .exe file to yt.exe<\/code>. <\/li>
  2. Get ffmpeg<\/a>. Put it in the same folder. You could rename this .exe file if you want as well, the names will be the commands used in the future.<\/li>
  3. Press the WINDOWS key, and type ‘path’.
    (INCOMING WALL OF PICTURES)
    \"\"<\/li>
  4. Choose ‘Enviroment Variables’
    \"enviroment <\/li>
  5. Then,
    \"edit
    <\/li>
  6. You can then add a new entry for the ‘path’ environment variable. The system uses this to allow the executing directory to be in any directory listed in the path. Meaning, when you run a command in CMD, the system will always check any directories in the ‘path’.
    \"add<\/li>
  7. Click OK on all open windows after adding the directory the exes are in to the ‘path’.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Example Usage<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    We will be using this song from YouTube: Moving Romance – Yoann Garel<\/a>. It’s also available on Soundcloud here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Right click on your Desktop > ‘Open Command Window Here’. If you don’t have this option in the context menu, you can download these registry edits<\/a> to add it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Next type the name of the yt-dlp .exe followed by a space and the url. So if you renamed it ‘yt’ like stated previously, it would look like so:
    yt https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dIMdcJWOEFM<\/code>
    Hitting enter will start downloading that video to the desktop directory you just launched the CMD window in. (Hint! If you want to use a Soundcloud URL like we have below, that will work too! Isn’t technology great?)
    \"yt-dl<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you want to convert the resulting video to a proper audio file like .mp3, you have two options. You can use the quick solution right from yt-dl:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    yt -x --audio-format mp3 [video_url]<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Or to download a playlist:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o \"%(title)s.%(ext)s\"<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    You can ignore missing (“unavailable in your country”, or removed) videos with an -i<\/code> flag. If your playlist isn’t working and the URL contains v=<ID><\/code>, remove it so just the ?list=<\/code> item is in the query string.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Or, since ffmpeg is useful for other tasks (and you should have it anyway), you can use it directly. A simple syntax of an ffmpeg command that would convert to an mp3 would look like ffmpeg -i [input file name] [output file name].[output file extension]<\/code>. But wait, we don’t want to type that long, ugly file name in that yt-dlp just spit out onto our desktop… luckily we have a trick for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Run ‘dir \/x<\/code>‘ in the open CMD window.\"dir
    This is an extremely helpful     windows command<\/a> that will show ‘short’ filenames for files, making working with longer file names a breeze. Windows is telling us in the screenshot above that we can refer to the video we just downloaded as ‘moving~3.web’. Now assuming no renaming of the ffmpeg .exe took place in the setup step, our command simply becomes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ffmpeg -i moving~3.web output.mp3<\/code>
    \"ffmpeg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And you’re done! You now have ‘output.mp3’ on your desktop saved as the song we were just playing on YouTube. I’ve combined this process with scripted metadata adding\/titling for an offline library. And, with the right yt-dlp commands it can even become an efficient way to export entire playlists of music.<\/p>\n

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    Hitting enter will start downloading that video to the desktop directory you just launched the window in. (Hint! If you want to use a Soundcloud URL like we have below, that will work too! Isn’t technology great?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[835,921,922,832,833],"tags":[984,982,1083,1084,1085,1086,1087,936],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-random","category-release","category-software","category-technology","tag-convert","tag-download","tag-format","tag-mp3","tag-mp3-conversion","tag-song-downloading","tag-soundcloud","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}