YouKuDownLoader

A video downloader focus on China mainland video sites.

Origin website: https://github.com/zhangn1985/ykdl

Now, it has migrated to the new website: https://github.com/SeaHOH/ykdl

And, it is still looking for a new owner, see #565.

This project is a fork of you-get with below changes.

Structured source code.
Focus on China mainland video sites.
Dropped supports of Python 3.4 and below (see #487).

Simple installation guide

There are some useful software package managers.

macOS/Linux: Homebrew
Debian/Linux: APT
Windows: Chocolatey

Step:

Dependencies

FFmpeg, for merge media files.

mpv, default media player (optimal compatibility).
Python 3

pip and setuptools, make sure they are updated.

python3 -m ensurepip
python3 -m pip install pip --upgrade
python3 -m pip install setuptools --upgrade

ykdl from PyPI or GitHub

pip3 install ykdl --upgrade

pip3 install https://github.com/SeaHOH/ykdl/archive/master.zip --force-reinstall --no-deps
pip3 install https://github.com/SeaHOH/ykdl/archive/master.zip --upgrade

Make sure those folders are in your PATH, if they are not, add them.

Windows: folders of ffmpeg.exe, mpv.exe, and python.exe, and folder “<PYTHONHOME>\Scripts”

others: “~/.local/bin” or “/usr/local/bin”

Site status

Please check wiki page: sites-status

Bugs report, features require, and pull requests are welcome.

Change Log for ykdl

1.8.2

enable pep517
change API name from “vid” to “mid”, step 1
add index item to MediaInfo for playlist
add util.lazy
fix compatibility with m3u8 3.5.0 (#621) @Joeky
fix default filename timestamp (#622) @a67878813
add new extractor: acfun.live
update GeneralSimple, Bilibili, Douban, DouYin, iQIYI, iXiGua, Huya, Weibo
move extractor from “le.le” to “le”
remove Baidu, iXiGua.live

1.8.1.post1

fix compatibility bug on Python 3.9 and below (#604)

1.8.1

add support HTTP cache
add support interactive mode
add –show-all argument
improve handling of media title and filename
bilibili.live API has been changed (#600 @fraic)
support new sites: iXiGua
update GeneralSimple, Bilibili, DouYin, YinYueTai

1.8.0

warning:

warning:: <lots of breaks>

add Brotli support (extra)
fix output and update dependencies
update Bilibili, Douban, Huya, iQIYI, Weibo
more see early PRE-releases

See full change log.

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