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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.

▲ doctor_phil 10 hours ago | parent [-]

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

▲ jordigh 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

-f 140 is the right yt-dlp parameter to get just the audio.

	▲	woodson 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think it's just "-x". It should select the best audio quality automatically.

▲ amatecha 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh, I missed that! In that case,

  yt-dlp -x <url>

.. or optionally to convert it to mp3 on the fly:

  yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 <url>

.. or doing so with also the best audio quality available:

  yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 <url>