Iyoutu

Iyoutu is an extremely and limited wrapper around https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl, allowing to interactively choose (in a terminal) which format to download.

Copyright 2019, Felix Wolfsteller Released under the GPLv3 or any later version (see LICENSE file).

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'iyoutu'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install iyoutu

Call as

iyoutu URL

where URL is the path to a source from which to download (possible sources are documented in the youtube-dl documentation).

Make sure that you already have youtube-dl somewhere on your PATH and that you know what you are doing with it.

Example:

➜  $ ✗ iyoutu https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=anyvideoid
Select format (audio and video combined) 
  3gp/176x144    small   38k , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2@ 24k (22050Hz), 24.08MiB
  3gp/320x180    small   95k , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2 (22050Hz), 58.90MiB
‣ webm/640x360    medium , vp8.0, vorbis@128k, 92.47MiB
  mp4/640x360    medium  200k , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k (44100Hz), 123.99MiB
  mp4/1280x720   hd720  176k , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2@192k (44100Hz) (best)
  -> Download audio and video seperately
  ! Abort

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/fwolfst/iyoutu. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

Everyone interacting in the Iyoutu project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.