YouTube Video Downloader (youtube-dl.exe)
UPDATED for youtube-dl.exe 2011.10.19 and Youtube-Downloader GUI 1.6.9.3
YouTube video downloader is a windows standalone version of famous youtube-dl.py script. It doesn’t need a python installation. youtube-dl.exe allows downloading of Videos from YouTube in different formats. This tool is basically youtube-dl for windows.
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YouTube Video Downloader 1.6.9.3 (2011.10.19) (5.6 MiB, 16,401 hits)
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youtube-dl.exe 2011.10.19 (3.8 MiB, 4,375 hits)
Windows standalone version of youtube-dl.py (2011.10.19). This contained only a command line version of the script as windows executable. Suitable only for advanced users.
SUPPORTED SITES [Only youtube-dl.exe]
- YouTube.com.
- YouTube.com playlists (playlist URLs in “view_play_list” form).
- YouTube.com searches, using the special keyword “ytsearch” as a form of URL, as in “ytsearch:cute kittens”. Do not forget the quotes if you want to include spaces in your search. Other variants are “ytsearchN” to download more than the first result, with N being a number, and “ytsearchall”.
- YouTube.com user videos, using user page URLs or the specifc “ytuser” keyword.
- metacafe.com.
- Google Video.
- Google Video searches (“gvsearch” keyword).
- Photobucket videos.
- Yahoo! video.
- Yahoo! video searches (“ybsearch” keyword).
- Dailymotion.
- DepositFiles.
- blip.tv.
- vimeo.
- myvideo.de.
- The Daily Show / Colbert Nation.
- The Escapist.
- A generic downloader that works in some sites.
USAGE TIPS
The program is usually invoked as youtube-dl followed by options and the video URLs. Listing all the options here would make this text too long, so you can run youtube-dl –help and get a summary of them. From that point on you can start experimenting with the different options yourself. The most common ones are -t (or -l) to include the video title in the file name, and either -f or -b to download a high quality version of the video. Also, the -o option can specify the output file name and path. It allows special character sequences that can be used as templates to be replaced.
A BRIEF HISTORY
My friend Janny found it’s bit tough to run youtube-dl.py in windows. She asked me some help to install and configure. Finally I made a standalone windows executable out of this python script. Later, another friend Vijoy asked me to provide a simple GUI. Right now I’m working on an update for the GUI, with more options.
SOURCE
YouTube-dl GUI-1.5.1 SOURCE (554.7 KiB, 1,423 hits)
YouTube-dl GUI 1.5.1 SOURCE
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Discuss - 55 Comments
Is this GPLv3?
It is really a gread jobs. thanks!
I want to built this progrom with C#, but I cannot read Python.
Can you make the youtube-dl with C# version? Or give some reference and tips?
Thanks a lot!
Hi
youtube-dl has been updated again.
(2011.11.23)
Why does this program require administrator permissions to run? It doesn’t seem to be installing anything.
Windows version give this error:
“ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info”
On web ( https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/135)
I have seen that youtube has change something
New youtube-dl have fix this problem, but I don’t know how use pythom version.
Can you recompile new windows version?
Thanks
Dear Nishad, it seems there is a problem with the .exe file I am getting this error most of the time, is it possible to post a new .exe with the fix? ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info.
Thanks for your help,
best regards.
Hello,
Can you tell me how to create a standalone executable with py2exe. I did, but I do not know how to incorporate the DLL and PYD..
I make compile.py :
———————-
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(console=["youtube-dl.py"])
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and create youtube-dl.exe :
python.exe compile.py py2exe
It’s work, but too many files in dist path.
I agree with the person upstairs
Could you please share the methodology of creating the .exe file from the .py one?
Thanks
Markos
Nishad… implementation of your Youtube-dl -(2010.12.09.zip) seems to be Dead…
Hi there,
Saw and tried on a friend’s machine. Is good, the only issue with this version seems to be no way to get subtitles. Also there should be a way to have some default download parameters decided by the user. This also seems to be missing.
Greetings and salutations Nishad
… congratulations on an intelligent effort!
Maybe a bug…
If HTML Code #47 (/) is in the title of download and you use -l (Literal)…
Eg – CUSTOM PSP/PS1 Superstar Dance Club
one movie with forward slash in Title…
(youtube-dl.exe -l -b -w -c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AYrTVQkPAw)
The file completes downloading… but the HTML CODE#47 (/) in the title
changes to HTML CODE #35 (#) and the .PART remains at the end of
the files name.
End results are thus…
CUSTOM PSP#PS1 Superstar Dance Club-3AYrTVQkPAw.mp4.part
Thanks Nishad …you deserve an Espresso Percolator .
Thanks for the program, but it does not work with dailymotion, could you have a look?
[dailymotion] xh48fc: Downloading webpage
[dailymotion] xh48fc: Extracting information
ERROR: unable to extract media URL
hey! thx for executable version of this project.
are you going to update to the latest youtube-dl version – 2011.01.30 ?
What youtube format values are you using for “Normal”, “Best” and “HD” ?
Thank you
Hello nishad,
first I want to thank you for your good job, it is a very nice tool
I write to let you know that today when I tried to download the URL below with
youtube-dl.exe, I got the following error:
E:\DOWNLOADS>youtube-dl.exe “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZCFyZzMEgU”
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] FZCFyZzMEgU: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] FZCFyZzMEgU: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] FZCFyZzMEgU: Extracting video information
ERROR: unable to download video (format may not be available)
Is it an expected behaviour of the tool ?
Thanks alot for your answer
greestings,
Filippo
Could you please make a Windows executable for nicovideo-dl? This site is basically the Japanese YouTube, and there’s a Python script for this too. Thanks!
http://sourceforge.jp/projects/nicovideo-dl/
Dear KJ,
Here is the answer for your request,
http://www.himili.com/blog/download/nicovideo-dl-2010.11.27.zip
Please download and let me know if you face any troubles.
Regards
Nishad
Works great, thanks a bunch! That was the most amazing response time I’ve ever seen, by the way.
hi, is it possible you prepare _youtube-dl.exe_ as there is new version 2010.12.09 http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/download.html ?
Updated, Thank you…
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hello plese check recent youtube changes, they changed video formats and download dont work now.
Some users are reporting that youtube-dl no longer works due to a recent YouTube change. Can you review? http://snipurl.com/1m7xup
Thanks so much.
Nick
Hi
I cannot download this video from youtube for some reason can you tell me why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IykPuA9KpA
I can download all other videos but that one. Check it out for yourself and let me know
Thanks
Great job,man
Thank you very much!
THANKS !
It is a great GUI but is it possible to do batch URL’s from You Tube so I can download muliple files with there original filenames from a text file with a list of URL’s. Can the code below be incorporated for a standalone?
import os, sys
f = open(sys.argv[1])
for line in f.readlines():
if “youtube.com” in line:
cmd = “youtube-dl –title “+line
print(cmd)
os.system(cmd)
f.close()
Wow! What a great tool! I can think of lots of interesting ways to use it.
Thanks so much for sharing this tool and for all the work you do to keep it up-to-date. It is much appreciated.
Nick
> “youtube-dl.exe: error: no such option: -b”
youtube-dl.exe v 2010.07.24
Dear Migawka,
2010.07.24 onwards, please use -f 18 or visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs to get more format numbers.
You can use it like -f 22 for 720p and -f 37 for 1080p
Those help files need to be updated. else the built in help ( -h ) is proper.
what else for option -b – best video quality?
You can use -f 18 instead of -b and for more higher quality try -f 22 or -f 37
if the pointed quality doesn’t exist the answer is null
The reason why -b was taken out is that youtube-dl automatically gets the best quality by default now. You can still use -f to override.
http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/faq.html
i’d like to thank you so much for your software: i use it for very long time but because of changes in youtube site since a couple of days it doesn’t work anymore. i know there is a new version of youtube-dl.py (released on 07-22-2010) and now i’m using this with python interpreter for windows xp. i hope using again your software soon. thanks for sharing
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Fantastic sofware…thanks VERY much!!
Not sure if this is a bug, or just the way YouTube works, but….
The -b video format option (–best-quality download the best quality video possible) does not appear to work correctly when the YouTube URL conatins an argument (ie ?feature= or ?embed= )
For Example:
youtube-dl.exe http://www.youtube.com/v/MAccxfVZFBQ&hl=en_US -b
ends with the error:
‘hl’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
…and only downloads the .flv file
..Whereas
youtube-dl.exe http://www.youtube.com/v/MAccxfVZFBQ -b
…downloads the higher quality MP4 without an errors.
Thanks again,
Some End User
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Check out my latest project http://github.com/luckydeveloper/donl if you want to see the queue i said in the last comment.
I was using youtube-dl script in ubuntu for a long time and generally wrote a bash script to download a series of videos one by one if i want to. You can implement a queue of URLs to be used in your software so that I can put a lot of videos in queue and the software would download all of them even if i am away from system.
Nice effort though.
Dear Lakshman,
Batch download is already there in youtube-dl. You can use either
-a FILE or –batch-file=FILE, FILE can be any text file containing URLs to download.
Download list is not enabled in Youtube Downloader GUI 1.6, but youtube-dl.exe it’s available. It’s there in GUI 1.7 which I’m testing now, and will be published soon.
GUI 1.8, can handle scheduled downloads and check for latest videos from play-lists. It’s in QT so will be working in Linux also.
Thanks for the comment. Let me know your suggestions.
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Excellent stuff. I have been looking for a tool to download loads of files from youtube. The -a option doesnt seem to work with the GUI but I could get it done using the .exe file. Kudos to you!
Hello.
Thanks for your precious work.
-On Core2 on Vista64bit
>youtube-dl.exe URL
ERROR:”no suitable InfoExtractor” URL
Any suggestion?
Thanks
Paolo
Dear Paolo,
Please check this link
http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/issue/40/error-no-suitable-infoextractor
If it still fails, then let me know
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ok, I manage to do this with youtube-dl.exe
hi,
I’m using YouTube Video Downloader GUI and I want to use the “-a” batch mode so I leave the place for URL empty and I put optional parameters “-i -s -b -g -a urls.txt” (txt file located in the same directory as YTVD) but I’ve got the error message (no URL found). I need a output of a file of final video URL. please help.
Dear Mingawka,
In GUI it validates URL entry with a valid Youtube URL pattern like “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar” If you want more advanced functions, you can try youtube-dl.exe.
Thank you for sharing your software.
I’ve just downloaded it and so far it looking great. Best thing is you don’t have to convert it afterwards
You rock man!
Thank you!
Dear Pinge,
It’s not converting the file, It’s using youtube-dl.py default download options for downloading different file types.
Thanks for using it.
I don’t care…. it’s still a great software! I’m so glad I stumbled across it. I prefer it to 1click ‘s version.
Once again thank you for sharing.