youtube2zim 2.1.1

Make ZIM file from a Youtube channel, user or playlist(s)

Youtube2zim

youtube2zim allows you to create a ZIM file from a Youtube Channel/username or one-or-more Playlists.

It downloads the video (webm or mp4 format – optionnaly recompress them in lower-quality, smaller size), the thumbnails, the subtitles and the authors' profile pictures ; then, it create a static HTML files folder of it before creating a ZIM off of it.

Requirements

• ffmpeg for video transcoding (only used with --lower-quality).
• zimwriterfs for ZIM file packaging. Use --no-zim to skip this step.
• curl and unzip to install JS dependencies. See get_js_deps.sh if you want to do it manually.

Installation

youtube2zim is a python program. if you are not using the docker image, you are advised to use it in a virtualenv. See requirements.txt for the list of python dependencies.

docker

docker run -v my_dir:/output openzim/youtube youtube2zim --help

pip

pip install youtube2zim
youtube2zim --help

Usage

youtube2zim uses Youtube API v3 to fetch data from Youtube. You thus need to provide an API_KEY to use the scraper.

To get an API:

1. Connect to Google Developers Console
2. Create a new Project then Select it.
3. When asked, choose Create Credentials and select the API Key type. (Credentials page)

youtube2zim --api-key "<your-api-key>" --type user --id "Vsauce"

Notes

• Your API_KEY is subject to usage quotas (10,000 requests/day) so use --only_test_branding when adjusting parameters and branding to not waste your quota.
• On macOS, the locale setting is buggy. You need to launch it with LANGUAGE environment variable (as ISO-639-1) for the translations to work.

LANGUAGE=fr youtube2zim --language fra

Development

See CONTRIBUTING.md