Can I use youtube-dl to provide the direct links and use other means to download them?

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Gray Sloth picture Gray Sloth · Apr 4, 2015 · Viewed 12k times · Source

Specifically, I would like to use DownloadThemAll. Can I use youtube-dl to just give me the direct link I need?

Answer

dstftw picture dstftw · Apr 4, 2015

Sure, you can.

Use the --get-url option to extract the direct link to media. For example:

youtube-dl --get-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc

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