MediaDownloader

Library for downloading media from various sites.

Actually, it is only YouTube at the moment, but the goal is to have as many sites as possible!

Usage

The API is intended to be flexible and easy to use. The following is both a tutorial and the closest thing that exists to a reference.

The first thing to do is to create a MediaDownloader object for the URL we want to download the media from.

$downloader=new MediaDownloader("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5AISm31cqc");

At this point we can fetch metadata for the media. The metadata includes title, description, keywords and thumbnail url for the media. These are all strings, except keywords which is an array of strings.

$metadata=$downloader->getMetaData();

echo $metadata->title."\n";
echo $metadata->description."\n";
echo $metadata->thumbnail."\n";
print_r($metadata->keywords);

Next, we can fetch an array of Media objects. They each contain information suggesting the type and quality of the media.

$mediaEntries=$downloader->getMedia();

foreach ($mediaEntries as $media) {
  echo "type: ".$media->getType()." quality: ".$media->getQuality()."\n";
}

It is also possible to fetch the Media object we want by asking for a particular type, provided that it exists.

$media=$downloader->getMediaByType("video/mp4");

Once we have the Media object, we can start the download.

$media->download("my_downloaded_media");

Optionally, we can register a function that will be called during the download to indicate progress.

function onProgress($percent) {
  echo "downloading: ".$percent."%\n";
}

$downloader->setProgressFunc("onProgress");

That's it! Enjoy! :)