A simple CLI for downloading high quality Youtube videos!
This tool allows the downloading of Youtube videos of 1080p
and higher qualities. The video and audio is separate, so this combines them after downloading both.
While this tool makes it easy to download content from Youtube, I do not endorse the theft of content created by hardworking citizens of the Internet. If you use Youtube as a primary source of entertainment, then please remember to turn off ad-block, buy their merchandise, or donate to the content creators you love to watch. And if you can't do that then simply like, comment, and subscribe to help them get more people enjoying their content.
Note: Pully requires Pully now automatically downloads the required version of ffmpeg thanks to kribblo/node-ffmpeg-installer!ffmpeg
to be installed. fluent-ffmpeg has great instructions on how to set this up.
npm i -g pully
pully download <url> [-p <preset>="hd"] [-d <outputDir>="."] [-t <filenameTemplate>="${channelName}/${videoTitle}"] [--silent]
pully set dir "~/Jim/videos/YouTube"
pully get dir # Prints ~/Jim/videos/YouTube
pully dl <url> # Downloads specified video to ~/Jim/videos/YouTube/<author>/<title>.mp4
Downloads a specified video based on a preset, defaulting to HD (see below). By default the file is named after the title and placed in a folder named after the channel.
Presets are used in the CLI version to simplify getting the video you want. Presets are available in the module, and can be overridden/extended!
hd
This will download the best video up to1080p60
. (default)2k
This will download the best video up to1440p60
.4k
This will download the best video up to2160p60
.max
This will download the best video, no limits on resolution or framerate.hfr
This will download the video with the highest framerate.mp3
This will only download the audio only, and convert it tomp3
.
npm i pully
import { Pully, Presets } from 'pully';
const pully = new Pully();
const video = await pully.query('<some-neato-video-url>');
console.log(`${video.videoTitle} by ${video.channelName} has ${video.views} views!`);
const options = {
url: '<some-really-high-def-video-url>',
preset: Presets.FourK,
progress: (data) => console.log(data.percent + '%') // Progress reporter callback...
};
const { path, format, duration } = await pully.download(options);
console.log(path); // Path to the downloaded file.
console.log(format); // Object containing all audio/video/meta data.
console.log(duration); // Number of milliseconds the download took.
- Fork it
npm i
npm run watch
- Make changes and write tests.
- Send pull request! 😎
MIT