Yt-dl-playlist NPM

yt-dl-playlist

This module let you to programatic download the audio files of a video playlist on YouTube in MP3 format. It exposes API to download also single audio.

The name of this module is due the npm policy, call it youtube-download-playlist.

⚠ You must use this module/cli respecting the YouTube's Copyright Policies.

Install

Requirements

Node.js >= v10
ffmpeg installed in your system

npm install yt-dl-playlist

Usage

CLI - Command Line Interface

Run yd --help to see all the options!!

The cli is very simple and quick-and-dirty:

# NPM Global
npm install yt-dl-playlist -g
yd <video_id or playlist_id>

# NPX
npx yt-dl-playlist <video_id or playlist_id> [flags]

Examples:

# Download playlist
yd PLAv2aQ9JgGbVcUtDpuiTB9WgaMljCUpa_ -p

# Download audio
yd 2bexTB7xq_U

# View info video
yd --info 2bexTB7xq_U

FFMPEG

This program needs ffmpeg. It is a free program that elaborate video and audio stream. It can be download also in the portable .zip without installation!

To config the ffmpeg path you can run the script in a cmd shell like this:

yd ZIyyj2FrVI0 -F /ffmpeg/bin

Or more simply run the yd command from the directory where ffmpeg is saved:

cd download/ffmpeg/bin
yd ZIyyj2FrVI0

Module

You can use this lib as a module also!

const DownloadYTFile = require('yt-dl-playlist')

const downloader = new DownloadYTFile({ 
  outputPath: process.cwd(),
  ffmpegPath: './ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg.exe',
  maxParallelDownload: 10,
  fileNameGenerator: (videoTitle) => {
    return 'a-new-file-name.mp3'
  }
})

downloader.on('video-info', (fileInfo, video) => {
  console.log({ fileInfo, video })
})
downloader.on('video-setting', (fileInfo, settings) => {
  console.log({ fileInfo, settings })
})
downloader.on('start', (fileInfo) => console.log(fileInfo))
downloader.on('progress', (fileInfo) => console.log(fileInfo))
downloader.on('complete', (fileInfo) => console.log(fileInfo))
downloader.on('error', (fileInfo) => console.log(fileInfo.error))

downloader.download(id, inputFileName = null) : Promise<object>
downloader.downloadPlaylist(playlistId) : Promise<Array>

downloader.getPlaylistInfo(playlistId) : Promise<object>
downloader.getVideoInfo(videoId) : Promise<object>