How to download all videos of a Youtube channel in HD
1 min readJul 17, 2020
Step 1: Go to Videos
tab of the Youtube channel
Step 2: Tap on Play All
button
Step 3: Copy list ID
from the URL. It’d be the value of key list
Example: &list=wdncscmckebfirebuwjcka
Step 4: Install youtube-dl
sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dlsudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
Step 5: Install brew
(Instructions here: https://brew.sh/)
Step 6: Install ffmpeg
(Command: brew install ffmpeg
)
Step 7: Open Terminal
and go to the location you want to download the videos
Step 8: Use the following command to download the all the videos of the channel (Replace the list ID)
youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio' --merge-output-format mp4 wdncscmckebfirebuwjcka
Note: This is for Mac OS