Youtube Playlist Downloader
This is a Node-JS application to download youtube playlist. The application is built using Youtube Core and Youtube Playlist.
Install
$ npm install --save youtube-playlist-downloader
Usage
const ytplaylist = ; ;
Youtube Core as the same is used in the package. Thanks to Fent and team
Options are the same we have forytplaylist(url, [options])
Attempts to download a video from the given url. Returns a readable stream. options
can have the following keys
-
quality
- Video quality to download. Can be an itag value, a list of itag values, orhighest
/lowest
/highestaudio
/lowestaudio
/highestvideo
/lowestvideo
.highestaudio
/lowestaudio
/highestvideo
/lowestvideo
all prefer audio/video only respectively. Defaults tohighest
, which prefers formats with both video and audio.A typical video's formats will be sorted in the following way using
quality: 'highest'
itag container quality codecs bitrate audio bitrate 18 mp4 360p avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2 696.66KB 96KB 137 mp4 1080p avc1.640028 4.53MB 248 webm 1080p vp9 2.52MB 136 mp4 720p avc1.4d4016 2.2MB 247 webm 720p vp9 1.44MB 135 mp4 480p avc1.4d4014 1.1MB 134 mp4 360p avc1.4d401e 593.26KB 140 mp4 mp4a.40.2 128KB
format 18 at 360p will be chosen first since it's the highest quality format with both video and audio.
-
filter
- Used to filter the list of formats to choose from. Can beaudioandvideo
to filter formats that contain both video and audio,video
to filter for formats that contain video, orvideoonly
for formats that contain video and no additional audio track. Can also beaudio
oraudioonly
. You can give a filtering function that gets called with each format available. This function is given theformat
object as its first argument, and should return true if the format is preferable. -
format
- Primarily used to download specific video or audio streams. This can be a specificformat
object returned fromgetInfo
.- Supplying this option will ignore the
filter
andquality
options since the format is explicitly provided.
- Supplying this option will ignore the
-
range
- A byte range in the form{start: INT, end: INT}
that specifies part of the file to download, ie {start: 10355705, end: 12452856}. Not supported on segmented (DASH MPD, m3u8) formats.- This downloads a portion of the file, and not a separately spliced video.
-
begin
- What time in the video to begin. Supports formats00:00:00.000
,0ms, 0s, 0m, 0h
, or number of milliseconds. Example:1:30
,05:10.123
,10m30s
. -
liveBuffer
- How much time buffer to use for live videos in milliseconds. Default is20000
. -
requestOptions
- Anything to merge into the request options which miniget is called with, such asheaders
. -
highWaterMark
- How much of the video download to buffer into memory. See node's docs for more. Defaults to 512KB. -
dlChunkSize
- The size of the download chunk in bytes. When the chosen format is video only or audio only, the download in this case is separated into multiple chunks to avoid throttling. Defaults to 10MB. -
lang
- The 2 character symbol of a language. Default isen
.