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https://github.com/omer73364/utube
A simple user friendly command line tool to download YouTube videos and playlists easily.
https://github.com/omer73364/utube
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A simple user friendly command line tool to download YouTube videos and playlists easily.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/omer73364/utube
- Owner: omer73364
- Created: 2022-06-12T18:05:09.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-03-09T20:21:05.000Z (11 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-29T12:44:39.276Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: cli, downloader, javascript, nodejs, terminal, videos, youtube, youtube-dl, youtube-downloader
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 2.93 MB
- Stars: 34
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 5
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# uTube-cli
### # Stand With Palestine 🇵🇸
### uTube-cli is a command line tool to download YouTube videos and playlists.
It's a node package, so it's available for (Windows, Linux and Mac) operating systems, all you need is Node.js installed on your system.
> **Note**: uTube is built on [ YouTube.js ](https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js) tool
## uTube 1.1.6 is here 🎉
### what's new?
- Auto update
- Pass url and quality within command
- Show downloading progress bar
- Set default download folder
- Bug fixes
## Features
- User friendly command line interface
- Download single YouTube video
- Download YouTube playlist
- Download some videos of YouTube playlist
- Playlists organized to folders by their names
## TODO
- [x] Support `-v` parameter to display tool version
- [x] Support shorts
- [x] support all youtube link formats
- [x] support `-u` parameter to pass url directly
- [x] support `-q` parameter to quality url directly
- [x] Show downloading porgress bar
- [x] Support setting downloading folder
- [x] Auto Update package if new version available
- [ ] Support 480p & 720p & 1080p
- [ ] Support downloading sounds (mp3 format)
# Installation
Ensure that you have [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) installed on your system, then you can install uTube using npm by this command:
npm install -g utube-cli
# Updating
If you have uTube installed you can update it this command:
npm update -g utube-cli
# Arguments
| Argument | Description | example |
| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| -v | show uTube version | `utube -v` |
| -u | pass video or playlist url | `utube -u [url]` |
| -q | pass quality (if not available will return to 360p) | `utube -q 360p` |
| --set-download-folder | set the default downloading path | `utube --set-download-folder ~/Downloads` |
| --get-download-folder | get the downloading path | `utube --get-download-folder` |
# Usage
uTube is very easy to use, just type `utube` on your terminal or cmd then you can use it.
Here examples of uses:
**- Download videos & playlists directly by passing url and quality:**
utube -u https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZKgEye8waGE -q 360p
**- Download videos & playlists by passing url then select quality manually:**
utube -u https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZKgEye8waGE
**- Download videos by 2 steps:**
utube
1. Paste the video URL.
2. Choose the quality.
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**- Download playlists by 3 steps:**
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1. Paste the playlist URL.
2. Choose the quality.
3. Choose which videos will be downloaded.
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> **Note**: playlists will be downloaded to a folder with the playlist name.
## Contributing
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
## License
[MIT](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/)