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| # ViaThinkSoft YouTube Downloader Util 2.3 |
| # ViaThinkSoft YouTube Downloader 2.3.1 |
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| YouTube Downloader is a tool for Linux. It is a wrapper for youtube-dl (or any compatible forks) and offers several additional functionalities. |
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| Special features: |
| - Downloading of all videos of a channel or a playlist. |
| - Automatic searching inside channels or globally (whole YouTube) |
| - You can download videos and audio files. |
| - YouTube-IDs can be automatically written in the ID tag of downloaded mp3 files. |
| - An automatically managed list of already downloaded videos allows you to move away from the downloaded files without the risk of downloading the already downloaded files again. |
| - An automatically managed list of failed downloads will avoid that a video, which is not available anymore, is tried to be downloaded too many times. |
| - Creation of SFV and/or MD5 checksum files. |
| - The tool is fully CLI and is optimized for cronjobs. |
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| ## Syntax |
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| ./ytdwn [-t|--type v:[ext]|a:[ext]] (default v:) |
| [-o|--outputDir <dir>] (default current working directory) |
| ./ytdwn [-t|--type v:[ext]|a:[ext]] Type video or audio and preferred output type, e.g. 'a:mp3' (default v:) |
| [-o|--outputDir <dir>] Default current working directory |
| [-a|--alreadyDownloaded <file>] |
| [-f|--failList <file> <treshold>] (This file logs failures) |
| [-F|--failTreshold <num>] (Don't download if failure (-f) treshold is reached. Default: 3) |
| [-V|--version] (shows version) |
| [-v|--verbose] (displays verbose information to STDOUT) |
| [-h|--help] (shows help) |
| [-N|--no-mp3-tagtransfer] (disables transfer of video ID to MP3 ID tag) |
| (This feature requires the package "id3v2") |
| [-H|--checksumMode] (Which checksum files shall be written for new files. |
| Must be 'None', 'MD5', 'SFV', or 'MD5,SFV') |
| [-T|--default-template <t>] (Sets default filename template.) |
| [-f|--failList <file> <treshold>] This file logs failures. |
| [-F|--failTreshold <num>] Don't download if failure (-f) treshold is reached. (Default: 3) |
| [-V|--version] Shows the version |
| [-v|--verbose] Displays verbose information to STDOUT |
| [-h|--help] Shows the help page. |
| [-N|--no-mp3-tagtransfer] Disables transfer of video ID to MP3 ID tag. |
| This feature requires the package "id3v2". |
| [-H|--checksumMode] Which checksum files shall be written for new files. |
| Must be 'None', 'MD5', 'SFV', or 'MD5,SFV'. |
| [-T|--default-template <t>] Sets default filename template. |
| (Default: '%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s') |
| [-X|--extra-args <args>] (Additional arguments passed through) |
| (youtube-dl. Default "-ic") |
| [-A|--api-key <file|key>] (specifies the API key, or a file containing the API key) |
| [-X|--extra-args <args>] Additional arguments passed through youtube-dl. (Default "-ic") |
| [-A|--api-key <file|key>] Specifies the API key, or a file containing the API key |
| (Default: ~/.yt_api_key) |
| [--cookies=<file>] A netscape compatible cookie file (for age restricted videos) |
| [--cookies=<file>] A netscape compatible cookie file (for age restricted videos |
| (Default: ~/.yt_cookkies) |
| [-C|--resultcache <file>] (allows video results to be cached in this file) |
| (only for playlists or channels) |
| [-O|--create-outputdir] (allows creation of the output directories, recursively) |
| [-C|--resultcache <file>] Allows video results to be cached in this file; |
| only for playlists or channels. |
| [-O|--create-outputdir] Allows creation of the output directories, recursively. |
| [--downloader=exename] Binary file name of a youtube-dl compatible tool. |
| Currently supported/tested: youtube-dl, youtube-dlc, yt-dlp. |
| [--] |
| <resource> [<resource> ...] |
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| ## Requirements |
| - PHP CLI |
| - Package "youtube-dl" (ytdwn will try to download it automatically, if possible) |
| - A YouTube API key (can be obtained here: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials ) |
| - If you want to extract audio, you need additionally: ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe. |
| - Optional: package "id3v2" to allow the YouTube video id to be transferred to the MP3 ID tag |