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What is it?

Small project with one main function - download a video from RuTube(it's a russian copy of YouTube).

How to use it?

UI

• Download executable file from Releases.

CLI

1. Install library

pip install async_rutube_downloader

2. Run

rtube-cli https://rutube.ru/video/365ae8f40a2ffd2a5901ace4db799de7/

• rtube-cli --help output

❯ rtube-cli
usage: rtube-cli [-h] [-o] [-q] [-v] [-f] [-d] [url]

This CLI utility allows you to download videos from Rutube.
 - You can download a single video or multiple videos by providing a file with URLs.
 - By default, videos from a file will be downloaded in the best available quality.

positional arguments:
  url                URL or ID of the Rutube video

options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -o , --output      Output directory (default: current working directory)
  -q, --quality      Select video quality interactively
  -v, --version      show program's version number and exit

Multiple videos download:
  -f , --file        Path to the file with URLs
  -d , --delimiter   Delimiter between URLs in the file(default: \n)

Usage examples:
 - Download single video:
      [rtube-cli] 365ae8f40a2ffd2a5901ace4db799de7
      [rtube-cli] https://rutube.ru/video/365ae8f40a2ffd2a5901ace4db799de7/
      [rtube-cli] https://rutube.ru/video/365ae8f40a2ffd2a5901ace4db799de7/ -q
 - Download multiple videos:
      [rtube-cli] -f ~/path/to/file1.txt
      [rtube-cli] -f ~/path/to/file2.txt -d ,

Use in code

1. Install library

pip install async_rutube_downloader

2. Use example

qualities is a tuple, like: ((1280, 720), (1920,1080))

• async

import asyncio
from async_rutube_downloader.rutube_downloader import RutubeDownloader


async def download():
    downloader = RutubeDownloader(
        "https://rutube.ru/video/365ae8f40a2ffd2a5901ace4db799de7/"
    )
    qualities = await downloader.fetch_video_info()
    await downloader.select_quality(max(qualities))
    await downloader.download_video()

asyncio.run(download())

• sync

import asyncio
from async_rutube_downloader.rutube_downloader import RutubeDownloader


loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
downloader = RutubeDownloader(
    "https://rutube.ru/video/365ae8f40a2ffd2a5901ace4db799de7/", loop
)
qualities = loop.run_until_complete(downloader.fetch_video_info())
loop.run_until_complete(downloader.select_quality(max(qualities)))
loop.run_until_complete(downloader.download_video())
loop.close()

Source code

About

This project was created for learning purposes and was inspired by a similar synchronous library and a book about async.

Technical Features

• TKinter UI
• argparse(stdlib) CLI
• The honest progress bar shows the actual download progress.
• UI and loading work in different threads.
• UI localization.
• The async version allows you to use the full speed of your internet connection.
• PyInstaller is used to create an executable file.

Dependencies