you-get

python educationalcli-toolscraper

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0.4.1743 (4 Jan 2025) Sep 01 2012 27.4 thousand (month)

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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.

Example Use

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CLI: ```shell $ 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. Library:python import you_get

will save file to output_video.mp4

you_get.download("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", -o "output_video.mp4") ```

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