An automation service to download videos from Youtube
Project description
YoutubeDownloader is an automated service to download multiple youtube videos at a time.
About
YoutubeDownloader is written in Python. It uses Asynchronous Python Multiprocessing at its heart which facilitates user to download more than one video at a time.
YoutubeDownloader must use a configuration file. It supports a YAML / JSON format of configuration file. This configuration file gives structure and usability to the service. It defines what videos/playlists needs to be downloaded and how they are going to be stored.
Configuration Syntax
YoutubeDownloader supports YAML / JSON configuration formats. YoutubeDownloader prefers YAML more than JSON. Below is the snippet of sample configurations in YAML / JSON format.
settings: process: 2 download: mostlyinsane: dirname: '../mostlyinsane' videos: - 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcKPjDUc5EQ' trippling: dirname: 'trippling' playlists: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLTB0eCoUXEraZe3d7fJRdB-znE5D0cMZ7' official-ceogiri: dirname: 'official-ceogiri' playlists: - 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLTB0eCoUXEraZe3d7fJRdB-znE5D0cMZ7'
{ "settings": { "process": 5 }, "download": { "mostlyinsane": { "dirname": "../mostlyinsane", "videos": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcKPjDUc5EQ" ] }, "trippling": { "dirname": "trippling", "playlists": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLTB0eCoUXEraZe3d7fJRdB-znE5D0cMZ7" }, "official-ceogiri": { "dirname": "official-ceogiri", "playlists": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLTB0eCoUXEraZe3d7fJRdB-znE5D0cMZ7" ] } } }
settings defines service level variables. - process to force YoutubeDownloader to use Asynchronous Python Multiprocessing and tells how many processes should be deployed to download videos/playlists at a time.
download defines what videos/playlists to download. It tags dirnames with videos/playlists internally and store the downloaded videos/playlists in the respective directory.
dirname relative / absolute directory path to store videos in.
videos single / array of youtube videos link to download.
playlists single / array of youtube playlists link to download.
Install
This is a pure-Python package built for Python 2.6+ and Python 3.0+. To set up:
sudo pip install ytdownloader
Options
ytdownloader --help
config specifies the location for the configuration file to YoutubeDownloader. If it omits, YoutubeDownloader looks in the current directory for the configuration file.
--version specifies the currect version of YoutubeDownloader.
--about about text for YoutubeDownloader
Usage
ytdownloader --version // latest version of ytdownloader
ytdownloader --about // about text for ytdownloader
ytdownloader // start the ytdownloader and search config file in current directory
ytdownloader docs/config.yaml // start the ytdownloader and use docs/config.yaml as config file
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