We recently had to develop some features that involved downloading videos from YouTube.
After some research, we found YT-DLP([https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp])
yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is to add new features and patches while staying up to date with the original project.
From this came the idea of writing a simple wrapper around Elixir to facilitate integration with our stack.
exyt-dlp
[https://codeberg.org/v0i4/exyt-dlp]
setup
[https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation]
[https://hex.pm/packages/exyt_dlp]
add to your mix.exs file:
{:exyt_dlp, "~> 0.1.5"}
run mix deps.get at project root folder
check installation
iex> Exyt.check_setup()
"Installed yt-dlp version: 2023.07.06\n"
usage
#sync
options = ["extract-audio", "audio-format": "mp3"]
iex> Exyt.download("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ", options)
{:ok, filename}
#async
options = ["extract-audio", "audio-format": "mp3"]
iex> Exyt.download("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ", options, :async)
{:ok, PID}
docs for more details
https://hexdocs.pm/exyt_dlp/Exyt.html#content
accepting PRs :)
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Hello Antonio and welcome to the Dev community š