mediakit 0.3.0

Download YouTube videos fast, directly from the command line

MediaKit

Download YouTube videos fast, directly from the command line

Features   |    Installation   |    How to use

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MediaKit is a command line tool for downloading videos from YouTube.

Features

• Quickly download YouTube videos with a single command on your terminal
• Select specific download formats if you want to (with resolutions as high as 4K :sunglasses:)

Installation

To install MediaKit, you'll need to have Python 3.6+ and pip installed on your computer. Then, run:

pip install mediakit

How to use

You can download a video with MediaKit by running:

mediakit <video_url> [<output_path>]

• video_url: the URL of the video to download (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...).

  As URL's may have special characters, it is recommended that you wrap the URL in double quotes ("") to ensure that it will be recognized properly.

• output_path: optional destination folder to where to save the downloads. If not provided, this will default to the current directory.

  You can also provide a custom name for the downloaded file. To do that, include it in the output path (e.g. path/to/folder/video.mp4).

After running this command, an interactive CLI will guide you through the download process.

Examples of use:

• Download to the current directory

  mediakit "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7AFEULF9LI"
  

• Download to ~/Videos

  mediakit "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7AFEULF9LI" ~/Videos
  

• Download to ~/Videos with name song.mp4

  mediakit "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7AFEULF9LI" ~/Videos/song.mp4
  

Selecting specific download formats

By default, MediaKit will download the specified video with the highest available resolution. However, you can select specific download formats with the flag --formats (or its shorthand -f), followed by one or more desired formats:

mediakit <video_url> [<output_path>] [-f | --formats]

If a resolution is not available for the video, the download will fall back to the closest available resolution lower than the one specified.

Examples of use:

• Download with resolution of 1080p

  mediakit "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7AFEULF9LI" -f 1080p
  

• Download with resolution of 4K (2160p)

  mediakit "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7AFEULF9LI" -f 4K
  

• Download multiple resolutions at once (each resolution will be downloaded in a different file)

  mediakit "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7AFEULF9LI" -f 1080p 720p
  

• Download with the highest resolution available (same result as not using the flag -f)

  mediakit "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7AFEULF9LI" -f max
  

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