RbYoutubeDL
Ruby wrapper for youtube-dl, forked from youtube-dl.rb.
Install the gem
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'rb-youtube-dl'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install rb-youtube-dl
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.
Refer to the gem version patch and revision to see what version of youtube-dl is being bundled.
Some features of youtube-dl require ffmpeg or avconf to be installed. Normally these are available for installation from your distribution's repositories.
Usage
Pretty simple.
RbYoutubeDL.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
= {
username: 'someone',
password: 'password1',
rate_limit: '50K',
format: :worst,
continue: false
}
RbYoutubeDL.download "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14",
Options passed as options = {option: true}
or options = {option: false}
are passed to youtube-dl as --option
or --no-option
Contributing
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Pass test suite (
rake test
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create a new Pull Request
Remember: commit now, commit often.