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amatechayesterday at 5:56 PM1 replyview on HN

If the author sees this: with yt-dlp you can download lower quality versions of videos to save bandwidth, like so:

  yt-dlp -f "bv[height<=720]" <url>
(where <url> is your URL or video ID)

That will download up to 720p quality.


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doctor_philyesterday at 6:55 PM

The author mentions just downloading the audio track. That's a lot less data than downloading any video at all. ;)

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