/youtube-d

A fast command-line Youtube downloader

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Youtube-d

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A command-line tool to store Youtube videos for offline viewing.

Usage

Run youtube-d -h to display a usage guide.

$ youtube-d -h
Youtube downloader v0.0.5
-f                 Format to download (see -F for available formats)
-F                 List available formats
-o    --output-url Display extracted video URL without downloading it
-p      --parallel Download in 4 parallel connections
-c       --chunked Download in multiple serial chunks (experimental)
-v       --verbose Display debugging messages
     --no-progress Don't display real-time progress
        --no-cache Skip caching of HTML and base.js
-d    --dethrottle Attempt to dethrottle download speed by solving the N challenge (defaults to true)
   --no-dethrottle Skip N-challenge dethrottling attempt
         --version Displays youtube-d version
-h          --help This help information.

Demo on asciinema

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Installation

Download the latest release from the release page

Alternatively, you can build it from source by installing dub and compiling with dub build -b release