youtube-dl options ------------------ See https://www.mankier.com/1/youtube-dl#Options Should always use: --no-playlist | only download a single video Useful: -x | extract audio -r 50k | limit download rate --max-filesize 1m | Do not download any videos larger than 1 MB --no-mtime | Do not use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time --write-description | Write video description to a .description file --write-info-json | Write video metadata to a .info.json file --write-annotations | Write video annotations to a .annotations.xml file --write-thumbnail | Write thumbnail image to disk --print-json | Be quiet and print the video information as JSON (video is still being downloaded) --cache-dir x | set permanent cache dir --fmpeg-location x --restrict-filenames | Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters -U | update youtube-dl (may need extra permissions) Not sure what these mean: --no-post-overwrites