Download youtube, twitter, youtube shorts, tiktok, reddit videos with termux app in android

yt-dl-termux.sh

#!/bin/sh

# helper script to download videos using termux and auto-indexing them
#
# required apps:
#   termux:           https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/
#   termux-api:       https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux.api/

# required packages
#   termux-api, python:       apt install termux-api python python3
#   yt-dlp:                   pip --upgrade install yt-dlp

[ $# -eq 0 ] && { echo "usage: $0 video-link"; exit 1; }

# setup the output path with what you want, shows up at the phone gallery
OUTPATH="/mnt/sdcard/Pictures/yt-dlp"
mkdir -p "$OUTPATH"

# vcodec:h264 has huge compatibility with wpp, telegram, instagram
yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best" \
  -S vcodec:h264 \
  --force-overwrites \
  --restrict-filenames \
  --windows-filenames \
  --no-mtime \
  -P "$OUTPATH" "$1"

# adds the downloaded media to the phone gallery quietly and without hanging the script
termux-media-scan -r "$OUTPATH" > /dev/null &