Youtube Video Downloader

Retrieves and download a given YouTube video. It uses y2mate to process the youtube video

Download a video

use the php ydown.php [OPTIONS] <youtube_link> options available:

-i, --info only display info no download
-d, --dir directory to save video
-t, --type media type eg. mp4 or mp3
-r, --res resolution eg. 1080

Example:

To download the video at the highest resolution available to the current directory

php ydown.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9OPOe_OO94

php ydown.php -d f:\music -t mp4 -r 480  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9OPOe_OO94

Using in your code

To use this in your code include the YdownClass.php:

• To get video information like the title and the resolutions available use getVideoInfo()

• You can also get the video download link after retrieving the video info getDownloadLink($id, $videoID, $type, $resolution) the getVideoInfo() returns values contains $id and videoID

require_once 'YdownClass.php'

$ydown = new YdownClass('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9OPOe_OO94');
$videoInfo = $ydown->getVideoInfo();
if($videoInfo!=false){
 print_r($videoInfo);
 //retrieve download link
 $ydown->getDownloadLink($videoInfo['id'],$videoInfo['videoID'],'mp4',1080);
}else{
 $errorCode = $ydown->getErrorCode();
 echo "something bad happened code=".$errorCode;
}

• To download the video use download($directory,$type,$resolution); or to download to the current directory at the highest resolution available use download() with no argument.

require_once 'YdownClass.php'

$ydown = new YdownClass('');
if($ydown->download('d:\video','mp4',720)){
    echo 'done';
}
else{
    $errorCode = $ydown->getErrorCode();
    echo "failed code=".$errorCode;
}