introduction

cyt-dl is an all-in-one tool to download/play youtube video/audio files.

works on cygwin-like terminals and/or GNUlinux

SET UP by downloading ffmpeg, yt-dlp & mpv

IF YOU ARE USING WINDOWS

ffmpeg

link: https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-essentials.7z

->extract [1] using 7zip. Get it here: https://www.7-zip.org

->copy extracted folder to C:\

yt-dlp

link: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases

-> copy [2] to [1] C:\ffmpeg\bin folder.

-> edit the system environment variables in environment variables, add C:\ffmpeg\bin folder to path.

If you have python installed then install with pip install yt-dlp and skip downloading [2]

mpv

link: https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9P3JFR0CLLL6

IF YOU ARE USING LINUX

ffmpeg (download the normal way you install other packages dependind on your distribution eg apt-get install ffmpeg ie debian/kali)
yt-dlp (same thing as in [1] / pip install yt-dlp)
mpv (same thing as in [1])

FOR ANDROID USE:

Download termux

link: https://f-droid.org/repo/com.termux_118.apk

Execute the commands (on your installed termux):

apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade ; \
apt install mpv ffmpeg python python-pip ; \
pip install yt-dlp

how to use

LINUX

git clone https://github.com/Snavens/cyt-dl.git && \
cp -rvf cyt-dl/GNU-linux/cyt-dl /usr/local/bin && \
chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/cyt-dl

CYGWIN

clone with:

git clone https://github.com/Snavens/cyt-dl.git && \
cp -rvf cyt-dl/cygwin/cyt-dl /usr/local/bin && \
chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/cyt-dl

ANDROID

git clone https://github.com/Snavens/cyt-dl.git && \
mkdir ~/bin && mkdir ~/bin ; \
cp -vrf cyt-dl/Android/termux-url-opener ~/bin ; \
termux-setup-storage && chmod 755 ~/bin/termux-url-opener

go to app settings and give termux permission to appear on top and you are done now all you have to do is share videos directly to termux app

FOR WINDOWS USERS AGAIN

Make sure the folder is in path If everything is set up, now you may start using it.

General usage examples:

stream (file)s

cyt-dl -s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMT9Yzvw9w0 \
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWynXenqp4c

download file as audio and store it in downloads folder

cyt-dl d https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hX-qHLIRe8

download as video and play then keep it in music folder (you can store in any directory you want)

cyt-dl ap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hX-qHLIRe8 ~/Music

does the same as above and loop file.

cyt-dl dp -l https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hX-qHLIRe8 \
/cygdrive/c/Users/$(whoami)/Music

More help is readily available in the script itself, use --help as option.

enjoy !