youtube-dl.rb

Ruby wrapper for youtube-dl.

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Install the gem

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'youtube-dl.rb'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install youtube-dl.rb

Install youtube-dl

This gem ships with the latest (working) version of youtube-dl built-in, so you don't have to install youtube-dl at all! Unless you want to.

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
}

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

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Pass test suite (rake test)
  5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  6. Create a new Pull Request

Remember: commit now, commit often.