you-dl

A simple interactive youtube video and playlist downloader written in python. Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl.

A youtube-dl wrapper, which helps you to download a specific format and also support playlists.

Why?

Because remembering CLI flags is hard.

Features

• Lets you download Videos, Playlist or Audio only.
• Search Videos and Playlist.
• Interactively select quality.
• Thumbnail embedding supported for mp3 and opus (default) format

Dependencies

• youtube-dl
• ffmpeg
• PyInquirer
• youtubesearchpython
• pyperclip
• pafy

Install

• you-dl is available on pypi Note: Linux user first install xclip and ffmpeg

pip install you-dl

Usage

Once installed you can run

you-dl 

Tip: Copy video or playlist url before running you-dl

Inspired by

youtube-dl-interactive which is written in js.

Todo

• Add Comments in code ;-)
• Add support for config file.
• Better README.
• And lots more.