Useful YouTube video downloader

There are many online services allowing you to download videos from YouTube. Loader.to and EzConv are a couple of them.

If you want to download a full YouTube playlist or Spotify playlist, you'll need a desktop tool:

# open PowerShell and run these commands to install Scoop:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://get.scoop.sh | Invoke-Expression

# install prerequisites:

scoop install python ffmpeg git

# install yt-dlp

python -m pip install -U "yt-dlp[default]"

# download YouTube playlist:

yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htk6MRjmcnQ&list=PLTo6svdhIL1cxS4ffGueFpVCF756ip-ab

# install spotdl

python -m pip install spotdl

spotdl download https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ePPW2ZeGo30MjFG6itcPG --output-format mp3