goutubedl
Go wrapper for youtube-dl and yt-dlp. Currently only tested and developed using yt-dlp. API documentation can be found at godoc.org.
See yt-dlp documentation for how to install and what is recommended to install in addition to yt-dl.
goutubedl default uses PATH to find youtube-dl or yt-dlp (in that order) but can be configured with the
goutubedl.Path variable.
Due to the nature of and frequent updates of yt-dl only the latest version is tested. But it seems to work well with older versions also.
Usage
From cmd/example/main.go
package main
import (
"context"
"io"
"log"
"os"
"github.com/wader/goutubedl"
)
func main() {
result, err := goutubedl.New(context.Background(), "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgVhBThJdXc", goutubedl.Options{})
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
downloadResult, err := result.Download(context.Background(), "best")
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer downloadResult.Close()
f, err := os.Create("output")
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer f.Close()
io.Copy(f, downloadResult)
}See goutubedl cmd tool or ydls for usage examples.
Development
docker build --target dev -t goutubedl-dev .
docker run --rm -ti -v "$PWD:$PWD" -w "$PWD" goutubedl-dev
go test -v -race -cover