yt-dlp-wrapper

This script is a wrapper for yt-dlp, designed to download audio or video from provided URLs.

Features

• Audio Download: Default mode downloads the best audio available in .m4a format.
• Video Download: Optionally, you can download the best available video in .mp4 format.

Table of Contents

• yt-dlp-wrapper
  • Features
  • Table of Contents
  • Installation
  • Usage
    • Command-Line Arguments
    • Example

Installation

• Git
• VSCode
• Python
• Poetry

To install Poetry, follow these steps:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install --user pipx
python -m pipx ensurepath
pipx install poetry

To install the project dependencies, execute the following command:

poetry install

To activate the virtual environment, run:

poetry shell

Usage

To use the script, you can specify the input file containing URLs and the output folder. Additionally, you can choose between downloading audio or video.

Command-Line Arguments

For command line arguments, use:

python video2images.py --help

• --input_file (default: urls.txt): Path to the text file containing the URLs to download.
• --output_folder (default: download): Directory to save the downloaded files.
• --strategy (choices: audio, video; default: audio): Specify the download strategy. Use audio to download audio files or video to download video files.
• --concurrent_fragments (default: 4): Number of concurrent fragments to download for each video.

Example

To download video from the URLs listed in urls.txt:

python youtube-dl.py --strategy=video

By default, this command will create a folder named download.