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How do you use youtube-dl to download live streams (that are live)? - Stack Overflow
Main Post: How do you use youtube-dl to download live streams (that are live)? - Stack Overflow
Does anyone know how to download live streams that are going on right now?
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It will be privated at the end of the stream and vod won't be available so I want to download it before it ends.
Top Comment: yt-dlp --live-from-start "URL" personally i use ytarchive for a more stable download experience as yt-dlp cmd above can be unstable https://github.com/Kethsar/ytarchive/
Live stream audio
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It looks like youtube live streams don't have separate audio channels, according to `-F`, am I reading that right? Loading at something like [LoFi Girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A) and I just see combined formats it looks like.
What would be a good way to extract just the audio stream? Pipe the stream back to ffmpeg to extract just the audio on the fly?
Top Comment: There are audio-only formats, but youtube-dl/yt-dlp can't currently download them. So they are not shown
how to download part of live stream
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Let's say I want to download 30 minutes of al jazeera news feed from youtube. How would I do that?
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This video shows you how to do it:
YT-DLP and live stream
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I have been using youtube-dl to download live streams for a while. It will continue to dl until the stream is completed. Just started to test out YT-dlp and cant get it to dl the live stream. It will dl about 40 secs worth and says it is complete. Am I missing a switch or option?
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show example, use --verbose to provide extra debugging info
Downloading a member only livestream as it happens.
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Looking for a bit more explanation on how this would work.
There's two methods I've seen and I've only managed to get half of it to work.
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37040798/how-do-you-use-youtube-dl-to-download-live-streams-that-are-live
- https://np.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/os5son/its_tough_living_in_europe_sometimes/h6mcrpq/?context=3
The first seems a more manual option and relatively simple (I've downloaded videos with youtube-dl before). But this stream will happen at 4am when I hope to be asleep.
The second option proposes an automated system using task scheduler or task manager?
What's the best way to do this? I'm a member of the channel so I'm not trying to get past.
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It can typically be scripted as previously discussed in threads here (and r/Hololive), but keep in mind that it's a setup/process that you should test beforehand to make certain you have a complete understanding of what you are doing and have it properly set up. You don't want to blow your potentially only chance at a recording.
If it's a stream that's really important to you, I recommend waking up and doing it manually.
Depending on which service this stream is from, there may be other unknown difficulties. Again, it's best to test ahead of time to determine if a different program might work better for you with that service.