mail2bapi/youtube-downloader

PHP library for downloading YouTube videos

0.1.1 2020-10-08 15:52 UTC

Requires

• php: ^7.2

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^9.4

MIT

• Bapi Roy

• youtube
• youtube downloader
• mail2bapi

README

A PHP library for downloading videos from YouTube without API key.

Requirements

• PHP 7.2 or higher

Installation

Run in console below command to download package to your project:

composer mail2bapi/youtube-downloader

Usage

use Mail2bapi\YouTubeDownloader\YoutubeDownloader;

// Yourtube URL
$yourtubeVideoUrl = '<youtube.com video URL>';

// New YoutubeDownloader instance
$yt = new YoutubeDownloader();

// Enabling logging
$yt->setLogging(true);

// Setting location for saving videos and thumbnails. By default is saves in directory 'videos/'
$yt->setDownloadFolder('<my/location>');

// Collect Video ID from URL
$videoId = $yt->getVideoId($yourtubeVideoUrl);

// Get Video details of a Yourtube video
$videos = $yt->getVideoDetail($yourtubeVideoUrl);

// $videos array have following keys 
// 'video_id', 'channel_id', 'duration', 'title', 'description', 'keywords', 'average_rating', 'allow_ratings', 'view_count', 'author', 'video', 'embed_video', 'adaptive_formats', 'formats', 'thumbnails'

// Get array of all video qualities
$videoQualities = $yt->getVideoQualities();

// Download all Thumbnail images
$yt->downloadThumbnails($videos);

// Download all videos as per video qualities available for the video
$yt->downloadVideo();

// Download single videos as per video qualities available for the video
$yt->downloadAVideo($videos['formats']['360p']['link'], $videos['video_id'], $videoQualities[0]);

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