How to do the do (Usage)

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Justin Roberson edited this page Sep 8, 2015 · 2 revisions

Basic usage

Pretty simple.

YoutubeDL.download "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14", output: 'some_file.mp4'

All options available to youtube-dl can be passed to the options hash

options = {
  username: 'someone',
  password: 'password1',
  rate_limit: '50K',
  format: :worst # Make sure you are on the latest Cocaine version for this to work (see https://github.com/thoughtbot/cocaine/pull/78)
}

YoutubeDL.download "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14", options

Doing more advanced things

Want to get fancy? Initialize your own YoutubeDL::Video instance.

video = YoutubeDL::Video.new(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1pchpDD5EU)
video.options.configure do |c|
  c.get_filename = true
  c.output = "%(title)s.mp3"
  c.simulate = true
  c.extract_audio = true
  c.audio_format = 'mp3'
end

video.download
video.filename # => 'The Chipophone.mp3'