dl.fish

Opinionated wrapper around youtube-dl yt-dlp to easily download audio when using the fish shell.

All downloads get saved as MP3 in the $HOME/Music directory, with a filename from the content's title.

Demo

Works with any yt-dlp supported source.

Install

Install with your favourite fish package manager, such as fisherman or oh-my-fish

# Install with fisher v4 or v2
fisher install dideler/dl.fish

# Install with fisher v3
fisher add dideler/dl.fish

# Install with oh-my-fish
omf install https://github.com/dideler/dl.fish

Usage

dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC8CH0Z3L54"

Goals

At the time of writing (2018-07-22), youtube-dl can extract media from 750+ different sources, its man page is ~3000 lines long, its help output is ~300 lines long, and it has ~120K lines of code.

But 99% of the time, I use it for dowloading music, and got tired of its complicated API and configuration.

This is an opinionated wrapper to download audio as MP3 with a good enough filename to a specific directory.