It is a terminal program focused on downloading videos from the YouTube site which seeks to provide different quality formats to the user to download both audio and video files.
git clone https://github.com/daliondev/MonoLoad.gitcd \MonoLoad\During the installation, it is recommended to create a virtual environment to store the requirements needed to run the program. If you wish to do so, follow the steps below.
python -m venv .using the dot flag we can indicate that we want to create the virtual environment in the folder in which we are
At the time of writing this help, the program makes use of few libraries to work, however the main ones are both Pytube and Tqdm and to install them you must do the following
pip install -r requirements.txtThe Pytube library in its cipher.py file contains a problem decrypting YouTube videos due to the pattern it uses which must be fixed manually in the following path:
\MonoLoad\Lib\site-packages\pytube\cipher.pyIn line number 264 in which the variable of a list is created, we must change all its content to the following:
function_patterns = [
r'a\.[a-zA-Z]\s*&&\s*\([a-z]\s*=\s*a\.get\("n"\)\)\s*&&.*?\|\|\s*([a-z]+)',
r'\([a-z]\s*=\s*([a-zA-Z0-9$]+)(\[\d+\])?\([a-z]\)',
]The use of the program is divided into Download and Multi Download Mode and are determined according to the needs that the user seeks to cover.
MonoLoad contains two ways to use which vary depending on the needs of each user, if you only want to download a video in mp3 or mp4 format, follow the steps below.
python main.py
After executing this, the program will guide you to provide the url and the quality with which you want to download the video or audio in addition to the format in which the download will be made.
To make use of multiple downloads, you must know the different flags that the program contains when executing it, which are,
the -m flag is required to enable multi download mode
| Flag | Description |
|---|---|
| -m | Boolean type receives true or false to activate multi download mode, by default it has the value of false |
| -f | File format, has two choices video, audio |
| -df | name of the file from which the urls of the videos to be downloaded will be taken, default value 'urls.txt' |
| -t | number of threads that you want to dedicate from the processor to downloading the files, by default 2 threads are used |
| -vq | video quality in a range of 1080p up to 144p |
| -aq | audio quality in a range of 160kbps up to 48kbps |
To download files in the 720p quality using 4 threads
python main.py -m True -f video -vq 720p -t 4