@julizey/yt-downloader v1.0.0

yt-downloader-js

A youtube downloader cli for nodejs

It's quite easy to use and is decently fast by levering the yt-dlp and ffmpeg binaries.

The official repositories of these:

• yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
• ffmpeg (patched): https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds
• ffmpeg (unpatched): https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds

Features:

• small (only 9.8kb), simple and fast
• auto install of the latest binaries (can also be done manually)
• no dependencies
• logging

Install

npm i yt-downloader

The postinstall script should automatically download all binaries! However the script can be manually triggered - See Init!

Usage

The cli is accessible under yt-downloader. It only has two commands:

• download: downloads a youtube video from a given url
• init:

download

downloads a youtube video from a given url and outputs it to a path (if specified)

Pattern:

yt-downloader download <url> [output_path]

init

installs all required binaries. Should be triggered automatically on postinstall! If the binaries are already present, it'll skip the step. The -r flag will disable this and replace them with fresh ones! Optionally a Github Token can be specified with -t followed by the token. Only necessary when for example evading rate-limiting!!

Required Binaries: yt-dlp and ffmpeg (patched version; unpatched as fallback)

Pattern:

yt-downloader init [-r] [-t gh_token]