Youtube-dl PHP

A PHP wrapper for youtube-dl tool.

Install

First step is to download the youtube-dl and add it's path to environment variables.

Second step is to install the wrapper using Composer:

composer require norkunas/youtube-dl-php

Download video

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use YoutubeDl\YoutubeDl;
use YoutubeDl\Exception\CopyrightException;
use YoutubeDl\Exception\NotFoundException;
use YoutubeDl\Exception\PrivateVideoException;

$dl = new YoutubeDl([
    'continue' => true, // force resume of partially downloaded files. By default, youtube-dl will resume downloads if possible.
    'format' => 'bestvideo',
]);
// For more options go to https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#user-content-options

$dl->setDownloadPath('/home/user/downloads');
// Enable debugging
/*$dl->debug(function ($type, $buffer) {
    if (\Symfony\Component\Process\Process::ERR === $type) {
        echo 'ERR > ' . $buffer;
    } else {
        echo 'OUT > ' . $buffer;
    }
});*/
try {
    $video = $dl->download('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c');
    echo $video->getTitle(); // Will return Phonebloks
    // $video->getFile(); // \SplFileInfo instance of downloaded file
} catch (NotFoundException $e) {
    // Video not found
} catch (PrivateVideoException $e) {
    // Video is private
} catch (CopyrightException $e) {
    // The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    // Failed to download
}

Download only audio (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe)

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use YoutubeDl\YoutubeDl;

$dl = new YoutubeDl([
    'extract-audio' => true,
    'audio-format' => 'mp3',
    'audio-quality' => 0, // best
    'output' => '%(title)s.%(ext)s',
]);
$dl->setDownloadPath('/home/user/downloads');

$video = $dl->download('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c');

Disabled options which would break download:

list-formats, list-subs, list-thumbnails, get-url, get-title, get-id, get-thumbnail, get-description, get-duration, get-filename, get-format, dump-json, dump-single-json, print-json (used internally), newline, no-progress, console-title, verbose, dump-pages, write-pages, print-traffic, ignore-config (used internally), all-formats, playlist-start, playlist-end, playlist-items, playlist-reverse, yes-playlist, no-playlist (used internally).