https://github.com/vaaski/go-yt-dlp
A small Terminal UI wrapper around yt-dlp. Provides a simple interactive interface to download videos from YouTube and a few other sites.
https://github.com/vaaski/go-yt-dlp
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A small Terminal UI wrapper around yt-dlp. Provides a simple interactive interface to download videos from YouTube and a few other sites.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/vaaski/go-yt-dlp
- Owner: vaaski
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2023-10-11T12:22:25.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-06-26T19:33:35.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-01-02T00:56:07.200Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: downloading, fortnite, golang, youtube, yt-dlp
- Language: Go
- Homepage: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
- Size: 1.64 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 4
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: readme.md
- License: license
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README
go-yt-dlp
> go-yt-dlp is a small wrapper around the excellent [yt-dlp project][yt-dlp].
> It provides a simple interface to download videos from YouTube and a
> [few other sites][supportedsites].
## USAGE
Either double-click the binary or launch it in the command line.
It will ask you to either paste a link or enter a search term.
If you enter a search term, it will search YouTube and download the
first result. If you happen to have a URL in your clipboard,
it will automatically pre-fill it for you.
At the query prompt, you can also press Tab to enable
searching on YouTube Music only.
All this isn't particularly fancy or the most efficient, but rather serves
as an exercise for me to learn go.
## INSTALLATION
The latest commit will be built on GitHub actions.
Currently, there are only binaries for macOS and Windows,
because those are the platforms I tested on. It should
probably run on other platforms as well.
- [Download the latest release here](https://github.com/vaaski/go-yt-dlp/releases/latest)
If you have Go 1.17+ installed, you can also use go install:
```sh
go install github.com/vaaski/go-yt-dlp@latest
```
### Dependencies
In order to function, go-yt-dlp needs [`yt-dlp`][yt-dlp], [`ffmpeg`][ffmpeg] and [`ffprobe`][ffmpeg] to be installed on your system.
Automatic installation is natively supported on Windows.
On other platforms it'll use [homebrew][brew] to install.
If you don't have [homebrew][brew] on MacOS I strongly recommend you install it.
If you wish to install them manually or have already installed them beforehand, here's how go-yt-dlp will look for them:
- Check `$PATH` or `%PATH%`
- Check for `yt-dlp`, `ffmpeg` and `ffprobe` adjacent to go-yt-dlp
- Check in `.go-yt-dlp/bin` in your home directory
- If none of the above is found, it will install them automatically
## UPDATING
To update go-yt-dlp, simply run `go-yt-dlp -U` to replace the binary with the latest release.
This will also run `yt-dlp -U` for you, updating the yt-dlp binary.
## RUNNING FROM SOURCE
To run the project from source, just install go and
execute the following commands:
- `go mod tidy`
- `go run .`
## BUILD FROM SOURCE
- Install go 1.21 or higher
- [Install goreleaser](https://goreleaser.com/install/#go-install)
- [Install go-winres](https://github.com/tc-hib/go-winres#installation)
- Clone this repo
- Run `go generate`
[yt-dlp]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
[ffmpeg]: https://ffmpeg.org
[brew]: https://brew.sh
[supportedsites]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md
[yt-dlp installation]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#installation