I dunno if I would call it rough; it’s just a CLI tool. You write yt-dlp and then paste in the URL.

Maybe I’m doing that xkcd comic where I overestimate average people’s familiarity with CLI though. It only gets complicated if you want to customise it beyond the basic flags in your global config file. I set it to include chapters and download subtitles for example. Once I get home I’ll try and remember to paste my config file here.

Edit: ~/yt-dlp.conf

# Save the files to this directory with this format
--paths /mnt/Vidoes/inprogress/youtube
--output "%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"

# Include subtitles and chapter metadata
--write-subs
--embed-chapters

# Resume incomplete downloads
--continue

# I use Vivaldi exclusively with a burner account to find videos to download so that Google thinks my activity is more organic
--cookies-from-browser vivaldi

# Optional - Only needed if you have issues downloading subtitles. I had to git clone and build "bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider" to generate tokens to download files properly. This part was just copy pasted from their instructions
--extractor-args "youtubepot-bgutilscript:server_home=/home/[username]/git/bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider/server"

# Optional quality filter - Possibly the only complicated part. This tells YT-DLP to prefer downloading H264 MP4 files, because my old as fuck android tablet doesn't support any other format. It also forces 1080p video, because I found after downloading too many videos YouTube will downgrade you to 360p and I'd rather get an error message than watch a 360p video. Some 720p only videos I edit this temporarily
--format "bv[height=1080][vcodec^=avc1][ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[height=1080][vcodec^=avc1][ext=mp4]/bv*[height=1080]+ba/b[height=1080]"

You will need to delete any # comments in your own config - I don’t think they’re supported. I included them for explanation.