Direct download links on website UI

[ladislavczech]

Hi guys, I need your help. I need downloader to my website. I do not want to download videos on my server. How I can provide on youtube-dl direct links to my site users? I have a web UI on my web, but system downloading videos to my server. I want every user to download videos directly to each PC. not on my server. thank you very much for help :-)

[hemratna]

@ladislavczech Hi,
Even I am also looking for some solution, But NOT ABLE TO FIND IT.

But as you can see http://en.savefrom.net/#url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=iWaFAIRWsA4&utm_source=youtube.com&utm_medium=short_domains&utm_campaign=ssyoutube.com is doing the same thing.

If anybody can help to implement this, It is really great help.

[kidol]

Call youtube-dl like this:

youtube-dl -j URL

It will output json string (it will NOT download). Look at this json string. It contains "formats" key which contains all the direct url's and further informations about the format (like resolution: 720p etc...).

[dstftw]

Use -g option to extract final download URL. However this won't work in some cases.

[hemratna]

@kidol Thank for your reply.
As you suggest -j dump json, But when some once click on that link it will open in browser(Chrome).
But I need to force download video to client side as you can http://en.savefrom.net/#url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=iWaFAIRWsA4&utm_source=youtube.com&utm_medium=short_domains&utm_campaign=ssyoutube.co (http://i.imgur.com/PyO1cTJ.jpg)

I can write code in php to force download, But Is there any way from where I can get direct url to download.

[kidol]

In case of YouTube, you can append "&title=something" to force the download.