Youtube-dl has the -postprocessor-args parameter to download a specific portion of a youtube video or videos from several other websites. If you haven't installed Youtube-dl on your Linux machine yet, refer the links attached in the first paragraph.

This video is 2:43 minutes long and it basically demonstrates how to launch web browsers in full screen mode in Linux. Read on! Download A Portion Of Youtube Video with Youtube-dl And FFmpegįirst, we will see how to download a specific part of youtube video using Youtube-dl script.įor the purpose of this guide, I will be using this video from the official YouTube channel for our OSTechNix blog. I know slightly a better a way to download parts of youtube video instead of full video. If you still follow this method to download and trim videos, don't bother. This is what I was doing to get only a portion of video.

To download a video, I would do: $ youtube-dl Īnd then trim the downloaded video using starting and ending time of the video clip as per my liking with FFmpeg using command: $ ffmpeg -i input_video.mp4 -ss 00:01:00 -to 00:03:00 -c copy output_video.mp4

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