A feature-rich command-line Video/Audio Downloader for macOS, based on yt-dlp.
- This script automates the process of downloading video/audio using yt-dlp.
- based on yt-dlp that support downloading video/audio from 1,500+ of website
- written in bash shell script
- Aria2 as downloader for high quality video instedad of default (curl)
- SponsorBlock Filtering for audio source
- Embed Metadata to audio file
- Thumbnail as covert art
- Crop Thumbnail into square for YT audio downloads
- Playlist Name as Album Metadata if data is not present
- Custom Audio/Video Quality
- MP3 as Audio Format
- Save Subtitles into .vtt or .srt file
- Mark YT sponsorblock segments as chapters for video
- Download SD Video Format in MP4 and HD /FULL HD /HQ Video in MKV for Smaller file Sized
- Preferred Video Codec VP09 for HQ video and AV01 Codec for FULL HD/ HD /SD video
- Support up to highest quality such as 8K
- Download images as PNG/JPG/SVG/GIF from various websites (cloudflare unprotect site only), tested on YT and YT Music.
- Built in Updating feature
- User Friendly and FOSS
- Smaller size script (40 KB), allowing you to save space on your macOS
- macOS computer with working internet connection.
- Open macOS Terminal and run the script with the following command:
curl -o "$HOME/.ytdl.sh" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arghya339/ytdl/refs/heads/main/ytdl.sh" && bash "$HOME/.ytdl.sh"Run ytdl with these commands in Terminal:
ytdl
Tip
Please uncheck Resotre text when reopening windows option in Terminal > Settings > Profiles > Window
Note
This script was tested on an Intel Mac running macOS Sonoma (14) with Terminal v2.14(453) with bash v3.2.57.
Alternative
MacYTDL formatSlectionNotAvailable
yt-dlp-gui qualitySelectionNotAvailable
youtube-dl-gui notWorkOnMac
ezytdl notWorkOnMac
"bash" [GNU 3.0], "brew" [BSD 2.0], "Python" [PSF / GPL], "yt-dlp" [GNU 3.0], "ffmpeg" [GPL 2.0], "imagemagick" [Apache 2.0], "Aria2" [GPL 2.0], "jq" [MIT]
"VLC" [GPL 2.0], "Aural Player" [MIT]
"FreeTube" [GNU 3.0], "YT Music" [MIT]
How it works (Demo on YouTube)
- Powered by yt-dlp
- Developer: @arghya339