ytxd 0.0.1

A user-friendly cli tool for downloading video and audio from url. YTXD is wrapper around the yt-dlp.

YouTube X Download (YTXD)

An easy to use wrapper around yt-dlp CLI.

YTXD is a command line tool that allows You to download from YouTube (or X, etc ...). The main purpose of YTXD is to provide easy to use interface for downloading video or audio scores.

Usage

direct commands

# download video to current working directory
$ ytxd video <video-url>

# download audio score of video to current working directory
$ ytxd audio <video-url>

# download video or audio to path with given extansion and filename, path can be relative
$ ytxd video -o Videos/clip.mkv <video-url>

# download best quality avaiable
$ ytxd video --best <video-url>

# specify path, resolution and video format
$ ytxd video --resolution 720p --format flac --path ~/Downloads <video-url>

Installation

ytxd is avaiable on PyPI:

pip install ytxd

Once installed, ytxd will be exposed as a command-line tool:

ytxd --help

ytxd requires ffmpeg to run. Ffmpeg installation site https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html and/or commands:

# ubuntu / debian
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

# windows 10/11
> winget install ffmpeg

Recomendation

I suggest to use ytxd via uv, an extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.. After following guide and installing uv from https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/, ytxd can be used by typing command:

uvx ytxd --help