video-dl

video-dl is a naive online video downloader based on aiohttp.

Prerequisites

• ffmpeg used to merge picture and sound to a complete video.
• python 3.8 or above (required by := operator).
• Node.js used to run javascript code locally.

You could check help manual in wiki to install these system dependencies.

Installation

pip3 install video-dl

Upgrading

pip3 install --upgrade video-dl

Typical usage

Download the highest-definition video

:warning: If there are special symbols in your url, please enclose it with quotation marks.

video-dl 'https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15L411p7M8'

:warning: the highest depends my own view, maybe not the one you want.

Download video which definition will be selected manually

video-dl -i 'https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15L411p7M8'

Download video to your specific directory

video-dl -d ~/tmp 'https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15L411p7M8'

Download video via your proxy

:underage: we have to access some non-existing sites via proxy.

video-dl -p http://172.30.176.1:10809 'https://cn.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5c87e70498951'

Try to download videos in the same playlist (experimental)

video-dl -l 'https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1qy4y1V7qU'

Combine these arguments.

video-dl -d /mnt/d/Download -l -i 'https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1qy4y1V7qU'

Help document

Program's help manual auto generated by argparse

you could use video-dl -h to see the below help manual.

usage: video_dl [-h] [-i] [-l] [-d DIRECTORY] [-c COOKIE] [-p PROXY] [-v] url

A naive online video downloader based on aiohttp

positional arguments:
  url                   target url copied from online video website.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i, --interactive     Manually select download resources.
  -l, --lists           try to find a playlist and download all videos in it.
  -d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
                        set target diretory to save video file(s).
  -c COOKIE, --cookie COOKIE
                        provide your cookie.
  -p PROXY, --proxy PROXY
                        set proxy. e.g.: http://127.0.0.1:10809
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit

You could find more important information in [github](https://github.com/fengdongfa1995/video_dl).

Longer help manual written by myself

You could find how to install system prerequisites, FAQ and something else in github's wiki.

Supported websites

• 哔哩哔哩 (゜-゜)つロ 干杯~
• Free Porn Videos & Sex Movies
• 西瓜视频 - 高清免费在线视频 - 点亮对生活的好奇心

How was this shit created?

• 在B站学习用Python做一个B站爬虫

Getting Involved

You could discuss with me in github's Discussions, find bugs or submit your excelent ideas in github's Issues, my last but the biggest wish is getting your pull requests to improve this naive tool.