The config I wanted to share with everybody who is using different commands every time they are trying to download videos.

• ff2mpv

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  A Firefox/Chrome add-on for playing URLs in mpv.

You can use a browser extension like ff2mpv to send the urls directly from your browser (so no need to type into the terminal). This works not only in youtube but in many sites as yt-dlp has support for multiple pages.

• mpv

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  🎥 Command line video player

  

Install mpv. As I mentioned above, it is a player and it allows you to stream directly from yt-dlp without needed to download the video. The syntax will be mpv video_url. For installing it I recommend to use a package manager. Check out winget, chocolatey, and scoop for this.

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• ytfzf

  84 3,569 7.9 Shell

  A posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal. (Without API)

Optionally you can do searches for videos directly from the terminal. This is harder to accomplish on windows because the script is linux only but you can run it from WSL (Windows Subsystem for Windows). The tool is called yt-fzf. You can make queries and use it to download or stream videos all from the command line.

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