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I am using a shell script for video conversion.

this is the shell script

#!/bin/bash
#downloading video
youtube-dl www.someurl.com
#video conversion operations

Due to bandwidth issues, I have to lower the download speed. how do I limit the speed of video that is being downloaded from youtube-dl?
and how to make a youtube-dl auto-resume when my laptop wakes up from sleep? youtube-dl stops download when laptop sleeps and doesn't auto restart downloading even though my laptop is connected to the internet.

Vikrant
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Tejus Prasad
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You can use -r option to limit the speed. For example 

youtube-dl -r 20K www.someurl.com

This will limit the speed to 20K. Note that speed is specified in bytes per second.

Tapan Prakash
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I hope my answer is not too late, but in case of those that might still need it,

Download resume :

the -c, --continue Force resume of partially downloaded files. By default, youtube-dl will resume downloads if possible. 

youtube-dl  -c  www.someurl.com

Limit download speed:

the -r, --rate-limit LIMIT Maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)

youtube-dl  --rate-limit 20k  www.someurl.com

OR

youtube-dl  -r 20k  www.someurl.com

SOURCE: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

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