YouTubeKit

A Swift package that extracts and downloads YouTube videos.

Note: this is just a fun side-project, don't use this for production :)

Test	Passing
testYTVideo	❌
testDownload	❌
testYTMimeType	✅
testEnumEncoding	✅
testNDescrambling	✅
testThumbnails	❌
testHTTPDownloader	❌

Note: This project hasn't been updated in a long time, so don't expect it to work. I will continue committing to this project whenever I find spare time.

Example

let videoURL = URL(string: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ")!
let destURL = URL(filePath: "video.mp4")

var downloader = YTDownloader()
let video = try await downloader.video(for: videoURL)
let format = downloader.bestFormat(for: video, quality: .hd1080)!

try await downloader.download(video: video, format: format, outputURL: destURL, updateHandler: { _, progress in
    let percentage = String(format: "%.3f", progress.fractionCompleted * 100)
    print("Downloaded \(progress.completedUnitCount) bytes of \(progress.totalUnitCount) bytes (\(percentage)%)")
})

print("Video downloaded to \(destURL.path())")

Features

• Extract info from YouTube videos
• Download YouTube videos at any resolution and format (mp4, webm)
• Integrated HTTP multi-threaded chunked downloader for faster download speeds
• Unthrottle YouTube download speeds (using n param descrambling)
• Pure Swift interface for handling video info
• More coming soon...

Install with SPM

To include this package, add this line to your Package.swift:

.package(url: "https://github.com/dcas796/YouTubeKit.git", exact: "0.0.3")

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Made by dcas796