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.
- 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
clone this repo and run the vid.py script! assuming you already have the other requirements.
Follow this wiki-How tutorial
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows
Extensive information on how to set up virtual env and pip.
https://www.dabapps.com/blog/introduction-to-pip-and-virtualenv-python/