YouTube Video Downloader

YouTube Video Downloader is a simple tool that lets you download videos and audio from YouTube at your desired quality. It supports very high-quality downloads, including 4K video, and always downloads audio at the highest available quality. This tool utilizes ffmpeg and ytdl-core as its base technologies.

Features

• Download videos in various qualities (360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p,1440p, 4K).
• Download audio in the highest available quality.
• Easy to use with a command-line interface.

Installation

You can install YouTube Video Downloader via npm from the npm registry.

   npm i ytvdownload

now to run the executable

   npx ytvdownload

Steps

• Enter the Video URL: When prompted, enter the URL of the YouTube video you want to download.
• Enter the Folder Location: Specify the folder location where you want to save the video or audio.
• Choose Download Option:
• Enter v to download the video.
• Enter a to download the audio as an M4A file.
• Select Video Quality (if downloading video): Choose the desired video quality from the available options.

The tool will handle the rest, downloading and processing the media files to your specified location.

Example (for video)

$ npx ytvdownload
Enter the video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example
Enter the folder location to save video or audio: /path/to/save
Do you want to download video or audio? (v/a): v
Available target video qualities:
0: 360p
1: 480p
2: 720p
3: 1080p
4: 4K
Select the desired target video quality (index): 3
Downloading video and audio...