rofrol / termux-yt-dlp

Bash script to setup yt-dlp in termux

termux-yt-dlp

Bash script to setup yt-dlp in Termux

How to install

1. Install Termux from F-Droid. Termux from Google Play has some problems with pkg update and will be removed in the future. You don't need root to install F-Droid application. Just allow installing from apk file.

2. Open termux

$ pkg update
$ pkg install git
$ git clone <address of this repository>
$ cd termux-yt-dlp
$ bash install.sh

3. Enable Termux popup over other applications:

• Long press Termux icon > i > Other permissions > Display pop-up window
• or Settings > Apps > Manage Apps > Termux > Other permissions > Display pop-up window.

Upgrade yt-dlp

Open Termux and run

pip install -U yt-dlp

How to use

1. Now go into youtube (or twitter, or reddit, full list), watch a video, tap the share button, then tap termux and wait for the download.
2. Go into ~/storage/shared/Download/ with your file explorer and watch your downloaded video.

TODO

• If there is no playlist it saves in NA directory with NA prefix in file name
• --no-abort-on-error
• --skip-playlist-after-errors N
• deal with errors like
  • ERROR: [youtube] 8NonPPdQ7Yw: Private video. Sign in if you've been granted access to this video
  • ERROR: [youtube] vlY2tFrh2zs: Video unavailable. This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by WMG.
  • ERROR: [youtube] BhwokVwxY_Y: Video unavailable. This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.
  • ERROR: [youtube] Tk_h-6cCQy0: Video unavailable. This video contains content from UMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
  • ERROR: [youtube] MmKlaGpmYig: Video unavailable. This video contains content from UMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
  • ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>
  • ERROR: [youtube] q0z08OpmEPc: Video unavailable. This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
• deal with warnings like
  • WARNING: No subtitle format found matching "srt" for language en, using vtt
  • WARNING: Unable to download video thumbnail: HTTP Error 404: Not Found