philer / ydl

An interactive CLI for youtube-dl

YDL

An interactive Youtube-DL wrapper for the command line with playback option.

Usage

ydl [-pc] [-a | --no-archive] [-v|-vv]
ydl -h

Options

-p --play       Automatically play videos once they have finished downloading.
-a --archive-filename
                File to be used for storing status and URL of downloads
--no-archive    Start a completely empty session, do not use an archive file
-v --verbose   Show more and more info.
-h --help       Show this help message and exit.

(For an up-to-date version of usage instructions see ydl/__main__.py)

Dependencies

• youtube_dl
• urwid
• docopt
• pyperclip (for pasting URLs)