youtube

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Download Youtube Video in Golang For more information about how to use this package see README

Latest version published 9 months ago

GitHub

Package Health Score

75 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Popular
maintenance
Inactive
community
Sustainable

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Popularity

Popular

Imported By: 174
GitHub Stars: 3.11K
Forks: 410
Contributors: 50

Usage Popularity

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the Golang package youtube, we found that it has been 3,113 times.

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Security

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Release Date

Mar 11, 2024

License

MIT

Security Policy

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 26
Open PR: 6
Last Release: 9 months ago
Last Commit: 7 months ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of github.com/kkdai/youtube/v2 based on released golang versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Inactive.

We found that github.com/kkdai/youtube/v2 demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 12 months.

In the past month we didn't find any pull request activity or change in issues status has been detected for the GitHub repository.

Community

Sustainable

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 50
Funding: No

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Readme

Download Youtube Video in Golang

This package is a Youtube video download package, for more detail refer https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl for more download options.

This tool is meant to be used to download CC0 licenced content, we do not support nor recommend using it for illegal activities.

Overview

Installation

Install via go get

Please ensure you have installed Go 1.21 or later.

go get github.com/kkdai/youtube/v2

From source code

git clone https://github.com/kkdai/youtube.git
cd youtube
go run ./cmd/youtubedr

Mac

brew install youtubedr

in Termux

pkg install youtubedr

You can also find this package in

archlinux (thanks to cjsthompson)
Termux package (thanks to kcubeterm)
Homebrew (thanks to kkc)

Usage

Use the binary directly

It's really simple to use, just get the video id from youtube url - ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM, the video id is rFejpH_tAHM

$ youtubedr download QAGDGja7kbs
$ youtubedr download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM

Use this package in your golang program

Please check out the example_test.go for example code.

Example:

Get information of dotGo-2015-rob-pike video for downloading

go get github.com/kkdai/youtube/v2/youtubedr

Download video from dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated

youtubedr info https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM

Title: dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
Author: dotconferences
-----available streams-----
itag:  18 , quality: medium , type: video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2"
itag:  22 , quality:  hd720 , type: video/mp4; codecs="avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2"
itag: 137 , quality: hd1080 , type: video/mp4; codecs="avc1.640028"
itag: 248 , quality: hd1080 , type: video/webm; codecs="vp9"
........

Download dotGo-2015-rob-pike-video

go get github.com/kkdai/youtube/v2/youtubedr

Download video from dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
```
youtubedr download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM
```
Download video to specific folder and name

go get github.com/kkdai/youtube/v2/youtubedr

Download video from dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated to current directory and name the file to simplicity-is-complicated.mp4
```
youtubedr download -d ./ -o simplicity-is-complicated.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM
```
Download video with specific quality

go get github.com/kkdai/youtube/v2/youtubedr

Download video from dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated with specific quality
```
youtubedr download -q medium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM
```
Special case by quality hd1080:

Installation of ffmpeg is necessary for hd1080
```
ffmpeg   //check ffmpeg is installed, if not please download ffmpeg and set to your PATH.
youtubedr download -q hd1080 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM
```
Download video with specific itag

go get github.com/kkdai/youtube/v2/youtubedr

Download video from dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
```
youtubedr download -q 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM
```

How it works

Parse the video ID you input in URL
- ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM, the video id is rFejpH_tAHM
Get video information via video id.
- Use URL: https://youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=
Parse and decode video information.
- Download URL in "url="
- title in "title="
Download video from URL
- Need the string combination of "url"

Inspired

Project52

It is one of my project 52.

License

This package is licensed under MIT license. See LICENSE for details.

FAQs

What is youtube?

Download Youtube Video in Golang. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for youtube, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is youtube popular?

The golang package youtube receives a total of ? weekly downloads. As such, youtube popularity was classified as a popular. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is youtube well maintained?

We found indications that youtube is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is youtube safe to use?

The golang package youtube was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 23 November-2024, at 23:19 (UTC).

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Download Youtube Video in Golang

Overview

Installation

Install via go get

From source code

Mac

in Termux

You can also find this package in

Usage

Use the binary directly

Use this package in your golang program

Example:

Get information of dotGo-2015-rob-pike video for downloading

Download dotGo-2015-rob-pike-video

Download video to specific folder and name

Download video with specific quality

Special case by quality hd1080:

Download video with specific itag

How it works

Inspired

Project52

License

FAQs

What is youtube?

Is youtube popular?

Is youtube well maintained?

Is youtube safe to use?

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Scan your app for vulnerabilities

Source Code

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