How is the windows binary created?

[ohnekopf]

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This is just a simple question I'm asking out of curiosity, I'd Like to know how the youtube-dl Windows executable is 'compiled' , and if this can be done from source from a Windows (or Linux) machine
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[blackjack4494]

python3 -m pip install pyinstaller
pyinstaller youtube_dl\__main__.py --onefile --name youtube-dl

The official windows executable is generated using py2exe as far as I kmow. But it's basically deprecated. There is some community successor under the same name supporting python3.4+ but pyinstaller will do the job.

[zackmark29]

@blackjack4494 is that pyinstaller is included already after installing python?

Can I compile only selected extractor? like Viki?

[blackjack4494]

@zackmark29 shouldn't be installed by default that is why I wrote that explicitly.
For your second question. I don't think that is possible out of the box. You could delete or move all other extractors somewhere else (but the base extractors common*.py)
Or write your own viki downloader without relying on youtube-dl which isn't that difficulty actually - especially for viki since they have an api. If you looking for something in python I can give you this gist as a starting point. I already made some more modifications on it locally to test some api calls (e.g. for subtitles etc). Since I noticed you mainly use C# you can probably easily port python to c# and vice versa as the languages are quite similar when coding.

[zackmark29]

@zackmark29 shouldn't be installed by default that is why I wrote that explicitly.
For your second question. I don't think that is possible out of the box. You could delete or move all other extractors somewhere else (but the base extractors common*.py)
Or write your own viki downloader without relying on youtube-dl which isn't that difficulty actually - especially for viki since they have an api. If you looking for something in python I can give you this gist as a starting point. I already made some more modifications on it locally to test some api calls (e.g. for subtitles etc). Since I noticed you mainly use C# you can probably easily port python to c# and vice versa as the languages are quite similar when coding.

THank you for that @blackjack4494 . I'll check it out. Yes my mainly Language is C#. I'm actually learning basic Python codes. But I'm not totally want to code on python rather I want to undestand the flow of the code. so that I can easily convert to C# code