you-getvsyoutube-dl
you-get is a command-line utility and a library for downloading multimedia content from various websites, such as YouTube, Instagram, 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.
Just like Youtube-dl, you-get contains open-source scrapers for hundreds of websites and is a great tool to learn about web scraping and popular web scraping techniques.
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.
Highlights
Example Use
$ you-get 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw'
site: YouTube
title: Me at the zoo
stream:
- itag: 43
container: webm
quality: medium
size: 0.5 MiB (564215 bytes)
# download-with: you-get --itag=43 [URL]
Downloading Me at the zoo.webm ...
100% ( 0.5/ 0.5MB) ├██████████████████████████████████┤[1/1] 6 MB/s
Saving Me at the zoo.en.srt ... Done.
import you_get
# will save file to `output_video.mp4`
you_get.download("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", -o "output_video.mp4")
$ youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc'
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'])