YouTube-Download

[Data2006]

Good evening.

I wanted to download an episode of the series Bonanza from YouTube.

ClipGrab crashes immediately.

And that doesn't seem to work either:

yt-dlp -o Bonanza.mp4 "https://youtu.be/VgkZqRHah0E"

What could this be?

Best regards
Heiko

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

The command works fine. It's a livestream. What's wrong with it?

[Data2006]

Well, the download runs and runs and doesn't finish.

Sorry, I didn't see that it was a live stream. Where can I see how long the stream is still running? Or how can I cancel it? I only wanted to watch one episode.

Best regards
Heiko

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

One easy way to cancel is just to press Ctrl+C in terminal. It saves the progress in the mp4 file. As alternative you can also pass the duration as parameter

yt-dlp -o Bonanza.mp4 "https://youtu.be/VgkZqRHah0E" --downloader-args "-t 00:01:00"

The previous command downloads 1 minute starting from the present point.

[Data2006]

Hi.

Thank you, it worked great.

I have one final question: can I download the live video from the beginning and then, for example, 2 hours?

Best regards
Heiko

[lomero]

-t 00:01:00 -- this is for 1 min
-t 02:00:00 -- this is for 2 hours

from the beginning is nonsense. because it's a live, so you can rip at your start, not from beginning

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

question: can I download the live video from the beginning and then, for example, 2 hours?

As weird as the request may be, you used to able to do this thing. Unfortunately youtube changed something with serving hls and it's not working anymore, not even with streamlink. You could wait for the livestream to become a vod and then pick whatever interval you want. If your episode can be found anymore on the 12 hours buffer though.