POC Invidious Downloader

This is a proof-of-concept to download videos from YouTube. Focus here is audio-only, so no video download.

The script saves the success rate of each instance, so it might be faster on the second run.

I just threw this script together, so please don't try to learn how to program from this.

Usage

Install requirements:

# virtual environment for Linux
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

# virtual environment for Windows
python -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

And then execute. Video ID can only submitted like this.

python main.py dQw4w9WgXcQ

There are some args, just use python main.py -h to check it out.

FFMPEG

Install ffmpeg. On Windows just throw in the executable in the same directory. On Linux.. Find out yourself.

Then you can pass the output file like this:

python main.py dQw4w9WgXcQ --ffmpeg output.mp3