Video-downloader v1.1

About

This file allows the user to download videos off of the web.

as of version 1 the user is able to download highquality videos as a playlist or single file as well as audio files from the supported

websites given here http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html are supported.

More features will be added in the future iterations of the project. a simple video downloader using youtube-dl Library, a starter script for making use of youtube-dl.

Requirements

• You will need to install youtube_dl
  • This can be installed using pip on windows,
  • if you do not know how to use pip please read the installation instructions
• requests library
  • can be downloaded using pip on windows and respective package managers on different operating systems.
• ffmpeg in order to convert the downloaded files to the right format

Installation

clone this repo and run the vid.py script! assuming you already have the other requirements.

FFmpeg

Follow this wiki-How tutorial

http://www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows

PIP

Extensive information on how to set up virtual env and pip.

https://www.dabapps.com/blog/introduction-to-pip-and-virtualenv-python/