ytfetch

ytfetch simplifies media downloading and playlist management by adding playlist searching, and streamlined format handling on top of the powerful yt-dlp engine.

✨ Features

• Search: Use -list to display or search across single or multiple playlists contents.
• Direct Download: Single flag to download in legacy avc/h.264 and mp3 format and audio only extraction.
• Video Quality: Mention preffered video quality directly.
• Native Compatibility: Can also pass through any yt-dlp flag.
• Minimal Output logs: Clean and minimal logs.

📋 Requirements

• Python: 3.8 or higher.

• FFmpeg and FFprobe: Should available in your system PATH. Download builds from here

  or

  • On Windows:

    winget install BtbN.FFmpeg.GPL
    

    or

    winget install Gyan.FFmpeg
    

  • On Termux (android):

    pkg install ffmpeg
    

  • On Mac (using Homebrew):

    brew install ffmpeg
    

  • On Arch Linux:

    sudo pacman -S ffmpeg
    

  • On Ubuntu/Debian:

    sudo apt install ffmpeg
    

• Deno: Or other JavaScript runtime/engine like node.js or bun

  Check this guide for more info. Also check yt-dlp dependency for optional dependencies.

📦 Installation

via pip

pip install ytfetch

via source

git clone https://github.com/voidsnax/ytFetch.git
cd ytFetch
pip install -e .

🚀 Usage

General Syntax and Options

usage: ytfetch URL ... [OPTIONS] [yt-dlp OPTIONS]

options:
  -h                         Show this help message and exit
  --help                     Show yt-dlp help message and exit
  -avcmp3                    Download video in AVC (h.264) & audio in mp3 format
  -q QUALITY                 Video quality (e.g., 1080, 720). Default is 1080
  -mp3                       Extract audio only as MP3
  -audio                     Extract audio only
  -list [NAME]               List playlist contents. Accepts values for searching across playlist

Examples

Basic Downloading

Download a video at the default best quality

ytfetch "VIDEO_URL"

Download a video in 720p

ytfetch "VIDEO_URL" -q 720

Format Conversion

Download as AVC(H.264) and Mp3 in MP4 Container

ytfetch "VIDEO_URL" -avcmp3

Extract Audio Only in Mp3

ytfetch "VIDEO_URL" -mp3

Listing and Searching

List a Playlist

ytfetch "PLAYLIST_URL" -list

Search through a playlist

ytfetch "PLAYLIST_URL" -list "remix"

Passthrough Options

You can append any standard yt-dlp option to your command. Both long and short flags are supported.

Download via Proxy

ytfetch --proxy "socks5://127.0.0.1:1080" "VIDEO_URL"

Use Cookies

ytfetch --cookies "cookies.txt" "VIDEO_URL"

Limit Speed

ytfetch -r "500K" "VIDEO_URL"

Selected range Search

ytfetch "PLAYLIST_URL"  -I ":50" -list "search_word"

and so on...

🔖 License

MIT License