youtube-downloader

Experimenting a bit with downloading videos and music from YouTube. On demand or automatically using URL from clipboard or Pushbullet.

Release History

• 0.12.1: Fix for not saving URL in local file after downloading.
• 0.12: Added option to skip downloading but saving URL in the file.
• 0.11: Rewrote Pushbullet and clipboard parts to make it simpler + handle multiple downloads at once.
• 0.10.1: Removed nothing notification.
• 0.10: Added checks to see if video was already downloaded; added new notification type if there is nothing to download.
• 0.9: Taking video URL from a Pushbullet message; fixed a loop; added an option to terminate the script; fixed youtube -> youtube.com to avoid issues with paths in clipboard.
• 0.8: Simplified code by merging downloadVideo() & downloadMusic() functions into one: downloadFile().
• 0.7: Simplified code by adding getMetadata() function; when taking URL from user's clipboard show videoTitle & channelName so user knows what's gonna be downloaded.
• 0.6: Added videoTitle and channelName to notifications.
• 0.5: Taking video URL from clipboard if there is one.
• 0.4: Started integration w/ my other project: web-youtube-downloader; new videos will be downloaded to folders named after YouTube's channel name.
• 0.3: Added colored output in terminal.
• 0.2: Added Windows and macOS notifications; fixed script not working when URL had whitespaces.
• 0.1: Initial, fully functioning release.

Versioning

Using SemVer.

License

Acknowledgements

• yt-dlp to download videos
• ChatGPT for brainstorming
• plyer for notifications on Windows
• pync for notifications on macOS
• pyperclip to use user's clipboard
• termcolor to have colors in terminal
• inputimeout to auto-advance without user's input
• Flaticon for icons
• Pushbullet API

Contributing

If you found a bug or want to propose a feature, feel free to visit the Issues page.