Windows install yt-dlp and aria2 with chocolatey

Описание

How to use chocolatey to install yt-dlp which is a fork of youtube-dl and aria2 which is download utility that works with yt-dlp as an external downloader that opens multiple connection to download videos 3 times faster than normal

After installing chocolatey open the powershell as admin and install yt-dlp and aria2 by running the following command

choco install yt-dlp aria2

Then open the windows start menu and type

%APPDATA%

and click the link to open the APPDATA folder

inside the APPDATA folder create a folder called yt-dlp and then copy the yt-dlp config file into the yt-dlp folder

Then inside the APPDATA folder create a folder called aria2 and copy the aria2.conf config file into it

To use yt-dlp open the windows terminal or powershell (not as admin)
and run yt-dlp.exe and the url to download

You can also create a text file with one link per line and then batch download all the files listed in the text file by running the following command

yt-dlp -a links.txt

where links.txt is the name of the text file with the links to download

chocolatey
https://chocolatey.org/

yt-dlp
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

To change the default download folder read the yt-dlp output template section and add any option to your yt-dlp config file

yt-dlp otput template
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#output-template

aria2
https://aria2.github.io/

yt-dlp config to use aria2 as an external downloader
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NapoleonWils0n/ubuntu-dotfiles/master/.config/yt-dlp/config

aria2 config
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NapoleonWils0n/ubuntu-dotfiles/master/.config/aria2/aria2.conf