YouTube Dash Manifest Generator NodeJS Documentation

This NodeJS library generates a DASH Manifest file for a YouTube video in order to allow a playback with 1080p+ resolutions. It is developed for and tailored towards easy usage in the FreeTube rewrite but can be used with any other project as well. It takes the adaptive formats of the response string as input. If this library should not work at some point, please create an issue and let me know so that I can take a look into it. Pull requests are also welcomed in this case.

Installation

yt-dash-manifest-generator

##Usage const ytdashgen = require("yt-dash-manifest-generator")

API

generate_dash_file_from_json_data(JsonStringData, VideoLengthInSeconds)

Takes a JSON file as string and the length of the video in seconds. Usable when the data from ytdl.getInfo() is already available

const xml_string = generate_dash_file_from_json_data(JsonString, VideoLengthInSeconds)

async generate_dash_file_from_json_data_from_id(VideoId, VideoLength)

Takes the length of the video in seconds as well as the ID of the video as input and gets the json data itself with yt-dl-core

generate_dash_file_from_json_data_from_id(VideoId, VideoLength).then((xmlData) => {
    doSomethingWithXML();
}).catch((error) =>{
    console.error(error)
})

generate_dash_file_from_formats(VideoFormats, VideoLength)

Takes an array of formats in the way which yt-dl-core provides it as well as the video length in seconds and generates the xml file

const xml_string = generate_dash_file_from_formats(VideoFormats, VideoLength)