Coders-ytdl NPM

coders-ytdl

A simple and practical YouTube downloader that is easy to integrate. You can integrate it into your project that requires downloading YouTube videos and audio or just to get YouTube metadata via a link.

Features

transcript()

get Transcription information from URL Youtube

search()

search metadata video with text

thinMetadata()

get small metadata without links

getMetadata()

get full metadata without links

getFullMetadata()

get full metadata with links

getBufferAudio()

convert best audio to buffer

getBufferVideo()

convert best video to buffer

Installation

Install coders-ytdl with:

NPM

npm install coders-ytdl

PNPM

pnpm install coders-ytdl

YARN

yarn install coders-ytdl

Usage/Examples

ESM

import CodersYtdl from 'coders-ytdl';

(async (url) => {
  try {
    const init = new CodersYtdl(); // can also new CodersYtdl(url);
    // If there is no URL argument in the constructor, you can add the method below.
    init.downloadLink(url);
    const result = await Promise.all([
      await init.getMetadata(),
      await init.getFullMetadata(),
      await init.transcript(),
      await init.getBufferAudio(),
      await init.getBufferVideo()
    ]);
    console.log('Metadata:', result[0]);
    console.log('Full Metadata:', result[1]);
    console.log('Transcript:', result[2]);
    console.log('Audio:', result[3]);
    console.log('Video:', result[4]);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
  }
})('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWKyykQBRKo');

CommonJS

const CodersYtdl = require('coders-ytdl');

(async (url) => {
  try {
    const init = new CodersYtdl(); // can also new CodersYtdl(url);
    // If there is no URL argument in the constructor, you can add the method below.
    init.downloadLink(url);
    const result = await Promise.all([
      await init.getMetadata(),
      await init.getFullMetadata(),
      await init.transcript(),
      await init.getBufferAudio(),
      await init.getBufferVideo()
    ]);
    console.log('Metadata:', result[0]);
    console.log('Full Metadata:', result[1]);
    console.log('Transcript:', result[2]);
    console.log('Audio:', result[3]);
    console.log('Video:', result[4]);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
  }
})('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWKyykQBRKo');