How to Download audio from a YouTube video using yt-dlp.
For more information on yt-dlp general usage read this post.
As you will more than likely be wanting the best quality audio the format (-f) selector will be for best audio (ba).
yt-dlp -f 'ba' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ -o '%(id)s.%(ext)s'
To save as the video title change %(id)s.%(ext)s to '%(title)s.%(ext)s' to save. For a custom filename songname.%(ext)s.
With YouTubes VP9 codec this file will most likely be .webm or .opus extension.
To save the highest quality audio as an mp3 file you need to define --audio-format mp3 with -x which is extract audio
yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ -o '%(id)s.%(ext)s'
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