edit: Guys, I now yt-dlp is the way to go, but is there a gui front end for yt-dlp with all the options that I get on cli? Or else, just advice me on how to use the yt-dlp cli

I need the best audio-quality and I want it to be webm and want it to be downloaded with transcripts too, so what should I do?

I tried this snap video-downloader and it was able to download a webm file and it’s amazing. I love it. But, I am not sure if it’s the best quality I can get. I was wondering what Linux native software you used to download Youtube audio in it’s best quality.

btw, when I downloaded the .webm file, I got it along with the transcribed text and it plays in the place where video subs play and it’s quite nice.

Something else

https://www.makeuseof.com/download-youtube-videos-yt-dlp-linux-terminal/

Removes all sponsors and downloads the best audio into Videos/yt-dlp

cd Videos/yt-dlp &* youtube-dlp yt-dlp -x --audio-quality=0 --sponsorblock-mark all --sponsorblock-remove all [YOUTUBE-URL] && cd ~

sudo snap video-downloader

Video-downloader snap downloads the package Video-Downloader and this can be opened through terminal (you can create a .desktop file through menulibre for this) And all videos with varying degree of quality can be downloaded here. But, this doesn’t include sponsorblocks so idk, use yt-dlp here too, but I don’t download videos so I don’t really care for this.

  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
    2·
    1 year ago

    I suggest Parabolic, it's very feature rich, but I don't think you'll ever find a frontend with all options, as the devs need to catch up, design and also consider which are important and leave others out, so they don't bloat the interface making it impossible to parse. At most you'll get an option to create shortcuts for custom commands (YTDLnis does this on Android).

    Anyway, regardless of the application, I think you'd get the same quality, both should try to get the best available by default

    I also made a small list some time ago https://codeberg.org/quazar-omega/awesome-yt-dlp if you want to help add more apps.