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by doctor_phil 518 days ago
The author mentions just downloading the audio track. That's a lot less data than downloading any video at all. ;)
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-f 140 is the right yt-dlp parameter to get just the audio.
I think it's just "-x". It should select the best audio quality automatically.
Oh, I missed that! In that case,

  yt-dlp -x <url>
.. or optionally to convert it to mp3 on the fly:

  yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 <url>
.. or doing so with also the best audio quality available:

  yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 <url>