VideoDl

Cli video download tool base on yt-dlp. (This tool attempts to provide a cli for yt-dlp)

- python 3.11.5
- pytest
- yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
- ffmpeg

Only tested in window 10 system.

Features

lazy youtube download

This tool tries to minimize the setting during download video

• Enter url to download
• Select download video or audio
• Select download quality
• Select subtitle if any and hard-burn/soft-embed into the video
• Login with cookie file if the site requires. See readme.md in cookie folder for more instructions.
• Download playlist if the url links to a playlist
• Pre-set downlaod settings with a toml file (the file in /src/lyd_autofill.toml)

To use this tool:
Download from release and run LazyYtDownload.exe, or
Download source code and run lyd.bat

download.bat (DO NOT USE)

Tested sites

This tool is tested to be able to:
Download video from these sites

• Youtube
• Bilibili
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Pinterest

Download playlist from these sites

• Youtube
• Bilibili

Testing

Install modules in requirements.txt and test-requirements.txt.
In project root, execute

pytest

Compile lyd

Install modules in requirements.txt and compile-requirements.txt.
In project root, execute

pyinstaller lazyYtDownload.spec

The exe file will be generated in /dist/lazyYtDownload

Note: pyinstaller generate build and dist folder. Delete these folders for a clean compilation

About the release

Only lazyYtDownload had release its compiled exe file

• execute lazyYtDownload.exe to run the tool
• The lyd_autofill.toml for pre-setup download setting is stored in /_internal

Note for developing

• The extract_info function of yt_dlp doest not work well when getting info of bilibili video, so those info is extract with a custom fetcher.