Comment by 0x38B

6 years ago

I can share to Termux from the YouTube app on my Pixel and download an entire playlist to my music folder - Ffmpeg handles any audio.

It's quicker than any of the YouTube downloader apps I've tried!

How it works: in ~/bin there's a termux-url-opener script that handles what you share:

"#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in

  *youtu*)

    echo "$1 is a YouTube URL,
      downloading"

    sh ~/shortcuts/dl_yt.sh $1

    ..."

(dl_yt just calls youtube-dl -x)

I love it and am still finding new uses for Termux. I've got neovim and all my dotfiles loaded, so in a pinch I can ssh into my phone to do some work.

3 comments

0x38B

Ycros 6 years ago

Ah, nice to see I'm not the only one running youtube-dl on a phone via Termux.

chronogram 6 years ago

Would it not be nicer to save a whole lot on bandwidth by using "youtube-dl -f bestaudio[ext=m4a]" instead of "youtube-dl -x"?

0x38B 6 years ago

Good point! My command line looks like this:
youtube-dl -f bestaudio -x --no-progress -o "~/storage/music/YouTube/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$1"
This generally gives me .opus files, which play OK but my player can't change the tags.