ytDownloader_Terminal

About this project

This project aims to provide users the functionality to download YouTube videos from CLI to any formats that they want

Installation

Installing for Audio + Video usage

Installation is fairly simple! Just run the command below to install all necessary python modules needed to run this project. *You will need to install additional software if you are planning on downloading video!

pip3 install -r .\ytDownloader_Terminal\requirements.txt

Video usage

This program requires ffmpeg to handle video + audio streams!

Install ffmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html

Program Documentation

General Flags

Possible flags to include the flag -v:

python .\ytDownloader_Terminal\ [-l] [-t] [-d] [-f] [-v] [-db]

* = Arg required
type = <argument type>
() = Comments

	-h, --help            show this help message and exit

* type = <string> (Youtube link has to be public/unlisted and could be either single/playlist)
	-l LINK, --link LINK  Youtube link | i.e: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=someRandomVideo"

Audio Download

Here are the flags that could be used for audio download:

python .\ytDownloader_Terminal\ [-l] [-t] [-d] [-f] [-db]

Flags

* = Arg required
type = <argument type>
() = Comments

* type = int (Make sure to not lag out your computer by setting a high value for this one)
	-t THREADS, --threads THREADS
                        Number of threads when downloading YouTube links | Default: 4

* type = <string> (Download path for files)
	-d DOWNLOADPATH, --downloadPath DOWNLOADPATH
                        Include custom download path | Default: C:\YOUR_PATH_TO_FOLDER/ytDownloader_Terminal/Downloads

* type = <string> (File extensions could impact sound + video quality due to lossy/lossless compression)
 	-f EXTENSION, --extension EXTENSION
                        Extension for output file

(Disables tqdm loading bars and replace it with text)
 	-db, --debug          Enable debug | Default: False

Video Download

To download video, include the

python .\ytDownloader_Terminal\ -v [-l] [-t] [-d] [-f] [-db]

Flags

* = Arg required
type = <argument type>
() = Comments

* type = int (Make sure to not lag out your computer by setting a high value for this one)
	-t THREADS, --threads THREADS
                        Number of threads when downloading YouTube links | Default: 4

* type = <string> (Download path for files)
	-d DOWNLOADPATH, --downloadPath DOWNLOADPATH
                        Include custom download path | Default: C:\YOUR_PATH_TO_FOLDER/ytDownloader_Terminal/Downloads

* type = <string> (File extensions could impact sound + video quality due to lossy/lossless compression)
	-f EXTENSION, --extension EXTENSION
                        Extension for output file

* type = <string> (File extensions could impact sound + video quality due to lossy/lossless compression)
  	-afv AUDIOEXT_VIDEO, --audioext-video AUDIOEXT_VIDEO
                        Extension for video audio

	-v, --video           Change default audio download to video | Default: False

(Disables tqdm loading bars and replace it with text)
	-db, --debug          Enable debug | Default: False