youtube-downloader

Experimenting a bit with downloading videos and music from YouTube. On demand or automatically using URL from clipboard or Pushbullet.

Release History

0.12.1: Fix for not saving URL in local file after downloading.
0.12: Added option to skip downloading but saving URL in the file.
0.11: Rewrote Pushbullet and clipboard parts to make it simpler + handle multiple downloads at once.
0.10.1: Removed nothing notification.
0.10: Added checks to see if video was already downloaded; added new notification type if there is nothing to download.
0.9: Taking video URL from a Pushbullet message; fixed a loop; added an option to terminate the script; fixed youtube -> youtube.com to avoid issues with paths in clipboard.
0.8: Simplified code by merging downloadVideo() & downloadMusic() functions into one: downloadFile().
0.7: Simplified code by adding getMetadata() function; when taking URL from user's clipboard show videoTitle & channelName so user knows what's gonna be downloaded.
0.6: Added videoTitle and channelName to notifications.
0.5: Taking video URL from clipboard if there is one.
0.4: Started integration w/ my other project: web-youtube-downloader; new videos will be downloaded to folders named after YouTube's channel name.
0.3: Added colored output in terminal.
0.2: Added Windows and macOS notifications; fixed script not working when URL had whitespaces.
0.1: Initial, fully functioning release.

Using SemVer.

If you found a bug or want to propose a feature, feel free to visit the Issues page.