Goutube

Go library to get download links for Youtube videos.

Features

• Extracts links for below formats:
  • video/webm
  • video/mp4
  • video/x-flv
  • video/3gpp
  • audio/webm
  • audio/mp4 (MPEG)

Installation

go get github.com/sreejithr/goutube

Usage

Below is the barebones basic.

import "github.com/sreejithr/goutube"

// Channel to report failure
errorChan := make(chan error)

resultChan := goutube.Youtube("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ")

for _, link := range <-resultChan {
	// `link` is a struct btw
	fmt.Println(link)
}

With error management.

// Channel to report failure
errorChan := make(chan error)

resultChan := goutube.Youtube("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ")

select {
case links := <-resultChan:
    for _, link := range <-resultChan {
    	fmt.Println(link)
    }
case err := <-errorChan:
    fmt.Println(err)
}

API

Constants

type MediaType int
const (
	VIDEO MediaType = iota
	AUDIO
)

func Youtube

func Youtube(link string, err chan error) result chan Link

Get download links for the given youtube url. Might return multiple links of different quality and format. Check Type of link which maybe goutube.VIDEO or goutube.AUDIO

type Link

type Link struct {
	URL          string
	Type         MediaType
	Signature    string
	Quality      string
	Format       MediaFormat
}

type MediaFormat

type MediaFormat struct {
	Type         string
	VideoCodec   string
	AudioCodec   string
	Raw          string
}

TODO

• Better error management (especially in network outage).
• Download from minified URLs.
• Return file size of each link.
• Download all videos from a page (embedded in pages and Youtube search results)
• Download whole playlists.

Contributing

• Can I?

  • Yes, please :)

• How?

  • Feel free to post issues, take up issues, ask questions, propose features.

• I'm new to open source. So...

  • Learn Git.
  • Fork the repo.
  • Make pull request.
  • Welcome aboard :)