youtube-dl is a command-line utility and a library for downloading multimedia content from various websites, including YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, and many others. It supports a wide range of video and audio formats, and can be used to download both live streams and on-demand videos. The library is written in Python and can be easily integrated into other Python projects.
Youtube-dl contains open-source scrapers for hundreds of websites and is a great educational source for understanding how to scrape many popular websites.
PHP library to get information from any web page (using oembed, opengraph, twitter-cards, scrapping the html, etc).
It's compatible with any web service (youtube, vimeo, flickr, instagram, etc) and
has adapters to some sites like (archive.org, github, facebook, etc).
CLI:
```shell
$ youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc'
```
Library:
```python
import youtube_dl
# define the download options
options = {
'outtmpl': '%(title)s.%(ext)s',
'format': 'best',
'postprocessors': [{
'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
'preferredquality': '192',
}]
}
# download the video
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(options) as ydl:
ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'])
```
```javascript
use Embed\Embed;
$embed = new Embed();
//Load any url:
$info = $embed->get('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP1xn5wHtxE');
//Get content info
$info->title; //The page title
$info->description; //The page description
$info->url; //The canonical url
$info->keywords; //The page keywords
$info->image; //The thumbnail or main image
$info->code->html; //The code to embed the image, video, etc
$info->code->width; //The exact width of the embed code (if exists)
$info->code->height; //The exact height of the embed code (if exists)
$info->code->ratio; //The aspect ratio (width/height)
$info->authorName; //The resource author
$info->authorUrl; //The author url
$info->cms; //The cms used
$info->language; //The language of the page
$info->languages; //The alternative languages
$info->providerName; //The provider name of the page (Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, etc)
$info->providerUrl; //The provider url
$info->icon; //The big icon of the site
$info->favicon; //The favicon of the site (an .ico file or a png with up to 32x32px)
$info->publishedTime; //The published time of the resource
$info->license; //The license url of the resource
$info->feeds; //The RSS/Atom feeds
```