So I'm trying to download an entire youtube channel using youtube-dl. I know that if you use the -F command, it gives you a list of the quality type of the videos. My question is this: how to download the best quality of all the videos so the download doesnt default to 460p or something low like that.
This answer won't work on older versions of youtube-dl. You need to update youtube-dl to the latest version. You can either install the latest version of youtube-dl locally inside a Python virtual environment (virtualenv), or you can download the latest version of youtube-dl and install it with pip (sudo apt remove youtube-dl && sudo apt install python-pip && pip install --user youtube-dl). youtube-dl is also a snap package. To install it type:
sudo snap install youtube-dl # launch it with snap run youtube-dl
Open the terminal and type:
youtube-dl -f best -ciw -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -v <url-of-channel>
...where <url-of-channel> is replaced by the URL of the channel.
Note: If you are downloading a lot of videos, you should change directories to the directory where you want to save the videos before you start downloading them.
-f, --format FORMAT
video format code. The special name "best" will pick the best quality.
-c, --continue
force resume of partially downloaded files
-i, --ignore-errors
continue on download errors, for example to skip unavailable videos in a channel
-w, --no-overwrites
do not overwrite files
-o, --output
Output filename template, this example functions similarly to the old --title option
-v, --verbose
print various debugging information
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