Download YouTube videos fast, directly from the command line
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MediaKit
Download YouTube videos fast, directly from the command line
Features | Installation | How to use
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 (video, audio and video-only) 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"
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Download to ~/Videos
mediakit "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7AFEULF9LI" ~/Videos
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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]
You can also download the audio (as mp3
) or the video without audio by using the format options audio
and videoonly
, respectively. If no resolution is provided, MediaKit will download the media with highest quality, although you can select a specific resolution by adding it right after the option used (e.g. -f audio 128kbps
). Check the examples bellow for more use details.
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
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Download with resolution of 4K (2160p)
mediakit "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7AFEULF9LI" -f 4K
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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
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Download with the highest resolution available (same result as not using the flag
-f
)mediakit "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7AFEULF9LI" -f max
-
Download audio (as
mp3
)mediakit "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7AFEULF9LI" -f audio
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Download multiple formats and resolutions at once (each resolution will be downloaded in a different file)
mediakit "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7AFEULF9LI" -f 1080p audio videoonly 720p # download video with 1080p, audio with highest definition available and video-only (without audio) with 720p
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