A thin wrapper around yt-dlp for parallel downloads
Project description
yt-dlpp
A thin wrapper around yt-dlp
for parallel downloads
Description
yt-dlpp
is just yt-dlp
but starts downloads in parallel.
It supports passing multiple download URLs and unwrapping playlists.
Installation
From pypi
pip install yt-dlpp
From source, on Linux
git clone "$YT_DLPP_REPO"
cd yt-dlpp
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install
Usage
yt-dlpp
accepts all valid yt-dlp
arguments and passes them mostly intact.
However, arguments related to CLI output will be ignored since that is handled by yt-dlpp
.
Below, you can find a short list of the added arguments:
Argument | Description | Default value |
---|---|---|
--n-info-workers |
Number concurrent url info extraction workers | Number of CPUs in the system |
--n-dl-workers |
Number concurrent download workers | Number of CPUs in the system |
Reason to exist
As you may be aware, starting multiple Youtube downloads in parallel will probably not change the overall time taken, since a rate limit is in place, and before reaching it, you may simply reach your ISP's limit.
But yt-dlp
(and therefore yt-dlpp
too) is not only used for Youtube! Other websites have different restrictions, and some may simply allow downloads at a slow speed, but no per IP throttling (eg. NHK World Japan).
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