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Command, options and arguments for downloading "best" quality media, served as a single file, from warrenmayer channel on YouTube
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warrenmayer-youtube-dl-best-single.sh
youtube-dl --write-info-json --all-subs --write-all-thumbnails -f best \
-o '~/Desktop/warrenmayer-best-single/%(title)s-%(id)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' \
https://www.youtube.com/user/warrenmayer/
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From FORMAT SELECTION of youtube-dl docs:

If you want to preserve the old format selection behavior (prior to youtube-dl 2015.04.26), i.e. you want to download the best available quality media served as a single file, you should explicitly specify your choice with -f best.

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