/VideoScraperBot

🤖 A telegram bot that uses the command line utility youtube-dl to download videos from YouTube and other sites

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VideoScraperBot

A telegram bot that uses the command line utility youtube-dl to download videos from YouTube and other video sites.

  • 🚧 This project is still under development 🚧

Requirements

  • Python 3+
  • python-telegram-bot
    • Install via pip: pip3 install python-telegram-bot --upgrade
  • youtube-dl
    • Install via pip: pip3 install --upgrade youtube-dl
  • ffmpeg
    • Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
  • Instagram cookies
    • Install cookies.txt chrome extension, login to instagram and export your cookies to 'instagram.txt' file, place the file in the code directory

Config

  • admin_chat_id: bot admin
  • user_chat_id: users that are allowed to use the bot
  • video_path: location of the downloaded video files
  • audio_path: location of the downloaded audio files
  • ftp_site: your website along with the directory where you are downloading the videos example https://mysite.com/mp4/' (used for large video files)

Commands

  • Simply just send a link to download the video
  • \mp4 followed by a link to download a video
  • \mp3 followed by a link to download an audio
  • \request to request access to the bot, the request will go to the Admin
  • \test check if the bot is working

Running the bot

  • Install requirments pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  • Run the bot python3 scraper.py