youtube-dl-installer-ng

Platform independent binary installer of youtube-dl for node projects.

Fork of Kikobeats/youtube-dl-installer which has gone unmaintained for some time.

Install

$ npm install youtube-dl-installer-ng --save

Usage

Require this module in your js application. Doing so will ensure that the latest version of youtube-dl is installed on your system. @todo add where it gets installed

require('youtube-dl-installer')

Following that, you can directly invoke the youtube-dl binary using child_process`, or indirectly using a module such as youtube-dl or ytdl-run.

child_process example

'use strict'

require('youtube-dl-installer')
const { promisify } = require('util')
const execFile = promisify(require('child_process').execFile)

const getInfo = async url => {
  const args = [ '--dump-json', '-f', 'best', url ]
  const {stdout, stderr} = await execFile(youtubeDlPath, args)
  return stderr === '' ? JSON.parse(stdout) : {}
}

;(async () => {
  const payload = await getInfo('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwMkbaS_M_c')
  console.log(payload)
})()

ytdl-run example

'use strict'

require('youtube-dl-installer');
var ytdl2 = require('ytdl-run');

const opts = [
  '-f', 'bestaudio', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgbO5pilG5I'
];

ytdl.stream(opts)
  .stdout
  .pipe(fs.createWriteStream('video.mp4'))