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(see details here) NOTICE (8 Mar 2019): Read this if you are looking for the conventional "Issues" tab. --------------------------------------------------------------------- You-Get is a tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web, in case there is no other handy way to do it. Here's how you use you-get to download a video from YouTube: $ you-get 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw' site: YouTube title: Me at the zoo stream: - itag: 43 container: webm quality: medium size: 0.5 MiB (564215 bytes) # download-with: you-get --itag=43 [URL] Downloading Me at the zoo.webm ... 100% ( 0.5/ 0.5MB) +##################################+[1/1] 6 MB/s Saving Me at the zoo.en.srt ... Done. And here's why you might want to use it: * You enjoyed something on the Internet, and just want to download them for your own pleasure. * You watch your favorite videos online from your computer, but you are prohibited from saving them. You feel that you have no control over your own computer. (And it's not how an open Web is supposed to work.) * You want to get rid of any closed-source technology or proprietary JavaScript code, and disallow things like Flash running on your computer. * You are an adherent of hacker culture and free software. What you-get can do for you: * Download videos / audios from popular websites such as YouTube, Youku, Niconico, and a bunch more. (See the full list of supported sites) * Stream an online video in your media player. No web browser, no more ads. * Download images (of interest) by scraping a web page. * Download arbitrary non-HTML contents, i.e., binary files. Interested? Install it now and get started by examples. Are you a Python programmer? Then check out the source and fork it! [6874747073] Installation Prerequisites The following dependencies are recommended: * Python 3.7.4 or above * FFmpeg 1.0 or above * (Optional) RTMPDump Option 1: Install via pip The official release of you-get is distributed on PyPI, and can be installed easily from a PyPI mirror via the pip package manager: (Note that you must use the Python 3 version of pip) $ pip install you-get Option 2: Install via Antigen (for Zsh users) Add the following line to your .zshrc: antigen bundle soimort/you-get Option 3: Download from GitHub You may either download the stable (identical with the latest release on PyPI) or the develop (more hotfixes, unstable features) branch of you-get. Unzip it, and put the directory containing the you-get script into your PATH. Alternatively, run $ cd path/to/you-get $ [sudo] python -m pip install . Or $ cd path/to/you-get $ python -m pip install . --user to install you-get to a permanent path. (And don't omit the dot . representing the current directory) You can also use the pipenv to install the you-get in the Python virtual environment. $ pipenv install -e . $ pipenv run you-get --version you-get: version 0.4.1555, a tiny downloader that scrapes the web. Option 4: Git clone This is the recommended way for all developers, even if you don't often code in Python. $ git clone git://github.com/soimort/you-get.git Then put the cloned directory into your PATH, or run python -m pip install path/to/you-get to install you-get to a permanent path. Option 5: Homebrew (Mac only) You can install you-get easily via: $ brew install you-get Option 6: pkg (FreeBSD only) You can install you-get easily via: # pkg install you-get Option 7: Flox (Mac, Linux, and Windows WSL) You can install you-get easily via: $ flox install you-get Shell completion Completion definitions for Bash, Fish and Zsh can be found in contrib /completion. Please consult your shell's manual for how to take advantage of them. Upgrading Based on which option you chose to install you-get, you may upgrade it via: $ pip install --upgrade you-get or download the latest release via: $ you-get https://github.com/soimort/you-get/archive/master.zip In order to get the latest develop branch without messing up the PIP, you can try: $ pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/soimort/you-get@develop Getting Started Download a video When you get a video of interest, you might want to use the --info/-i option to see all available quality and formats: $ you-get -i 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw' site: YouTube title: Me at the zoo streams: # Available quality and codecs [ DASH ] ____________________________________ - itag: 242 container: webm quality: 320x240 size: 0.6 MiB (618358 bytes) # download-with: you-get --itag=242 [URL] - itag: 395 container: mp4 quality: 320x240 size: 0.5 MiB (550743 bytes) # download-with: you-get --itag=395 [URL] - itag: 133 container: mp4 quality: 320x240 size: 0.5 MiB (498558 bytes) # download-with: you-get --itag=133 [URL] - itag: 278 container: webm quality: 192x144 size: 0.4 MiB (392857 bytes) # download-with: you-get --itag=278 [URL] - itag: 160 container: mp4 quality: 192x144 size: 0.4 MiB (370882 bytes) # download-with: you-get --itag=160 [URL] - itag: 394 container: mp4 quality: 192x144 size: 0.4 MiB (367261 bytes) # download-with: you-get --itag=394 [URL] [ DEFAULT ] _________________________________ - itag: 43 container: webm quality: medium size: 0.5 MiB (568748 bytes) # download-with: you-get --itag=43 [URL] - itag: 18 container: mp4 quality: small # download-with: you-get --itag=18 [URL] - itag: 36 container: 3gp quality: small # download-with: you-get --itag=36 [URL] - itag: 17 container: 3gp quality: small # download-with: you-get --itag=17 [URL] By default, the one on the top is the one you will get. If that looks cool to you, download it: $ you-get 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw' site: YouTube title: Me at the zoo stream: - itag: 242 container: webm quality: 320x240 size: 0.6 MiB (618358 bytes) # download-with: you-get --itag=242 [URL] Downloading Me at the zoo.webm ... 100% ( 0.6/ 0.6MB) +##############################################################################+[2/2] 2 MB/s Merging video parts... Merged into Me at the zoo.webm Saving Me at the zoo.en.srt ... Done. (If a YouTube video has any closed captions, they will be downloaded together with the video file, in SubRip subtitle format.) Or, if you prefer another format (mp4), just use whatever the option you-get shows to you: $ you-get --itag=18 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw' Note: * At this point, format selection has not been generally implemented for most of our supported sites; in that case, the default format to download is the one with the highest quality. * ffmpeg is a required dependency, for downloading and joining videos streamed in multiple parts (e.g. on some sites like Youku), and for YouTube videos of 1080p or high resolution. * If you don't want you-get to join video parts after downloading them, use the --no-merge/-n option. Download anything else If you already have the URL of the exact resource you want, you can download it directly with: $ you-get https://stallman.org/rms.jpg Site: stallman.org Title: rms Type: JPEG Image (image/jpeg) Size: 0.06 MiB (66482 Bytes) Downloading rms.jpg ... 100% ( 0.1/ 0.1MB) +########################################+[1/1] 127 kB/s Otherwise, you-get will scrape the web page and try to figure out if there's anything interesting to you: $ you-get https://kopasas.tumblr.com/post/69361932517 Site: Tumblr.com Title: [tumblr] tumblr_mxhg13jx4n1sftq6do1_640 Type: Portable Network Graphics (image/png) Size: 0.11 MiB (118484 Bytes) Downloading [tumblr] tumblr_mxhg13jx4n1sftq6do1_640.png ... 100% ( 0.1/ 0.1MB) +########################################+[1/1] 22 MB/s Note: * This feature is an experimental one and far from perfect. It works best on scraping large-sized images from popular websites like Tumblr and Blogger, but there is really no universal pattern that can apply to any site on the Internet. Search on Google Videos and download You can pass literally anything to you-get. If it isn't a valid URL, you-get will do a Google search and download the most relevant video for you. (It might not be exactly the thing you wish to see, but still very likely.) $ you-get "Richard Stallman eats" Pause and resume a download You may use Ctrl+C to interrupt a download. A temporary .download file is kept in the output directory. Next time you run you-get with the same arguments, the download progress will resume from the last session. In case the file is completely downloaded (the temporary .download extension is gone), you-get will just skip the download. To enforce re-downloading, use the --force/-f option. (Warning: doing so will overwrite any existing file or temporary file with the same name!) Set the path and name of downloaded file Use the --output-dir/-o option to set the path, and --output-filename /-O to set the name of the downloaded file: $ you-get -o ~/Videos -O zoo.webm 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw' Tips: * These options are helpful if you encounter problems with the default video titles, which may contain special characters that do not play well with your current shell / operating system / filesystem. * These options are also helpful if you write a script to batch download files and put them into designated folders with designated names. Proxy settings You may specify an HTTP proxy for you-get to use, via the --http-proxy/-x option: $ you-get -x 127.0.0.1:8087 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw' However, the system proxy setting (i.e. the environment variable http_proxy) is applied by default. To disable any proxy, use the --no-proxy option. Tips: * If you need to use proxies a lot (in case your network is blocking certain sites), you might want to use you-get with proxychains and set alias you-get="proxychains -q you-get" (in Bash). * For some websites (e.g. Youku), if you need access to some videos that are only available in mainland China, there is an option of using a specific proxy to extract video information from the site: --extractor-proxy/-y. Watch a video Use the --player/-p option to feed the video into your media player of choice, e.g. mpv or vlc, instead of downloading it: $ you-get -p vlc 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw' Or, if you prefer to watch the video in a browser, just without ads or comment section: $ you-get -p chromium 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw' Tips: * It is possible to use the -p option to start another download manager, e.g., you-get -p uget-gtk 'https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw', though they may not play together very well. Load cookies Not all videos are publicly available to anyone. If you need to log in your account to access something (e.g., a private video), it would be unavoidable to feed the browser cookies to you-get via the --cookies/-c option. Note: * As of now, we are supporting two formats of browser cookies: Mozilla cookies.sqlite and Netscape cookies.txt. Reuse extracted data Use --url/-u to get a list of downloadable resource URLs extracted from the page. Use --json to get an abstract of extracted data in the JSON format. Warning: * For the time being, this feature has NOT been stabilized and the JSON schema may have breaking changes in the future. Supported Sites Site URL Videos? Images? Audios? YouTube https://www.youtube.com/ X (Twitter) https://x.com/ VK https://vk.com/ Vimeo https://vimeo.com/ Veoh https://www.veoh.com/ Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/ TED https://www.ted.com/ SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/ SHOWROOM https://www.showroom-live.com / Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/ MTV81 https://www.mtv81.com/ Mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/ Metacafe https://www.metacafe.com/ Magisto https://www.magisto.com/ Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/ Internet https://archive.org/ Archive Instagram https://instagram.com/ InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/ presentations/ Imgur https://imgur.com/ Heavy Music https://www.heavy-music.ru/ Archive Freesound https://www.freesound.org/ Flickr https://www.flickr.com/ FC2 Video https://video.fc2.com/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ eHow https://www.ehow.com/ Dailymotion https://www.dailymotion.com/ Coub https://coub.com/ CBS https://www.cbs.com/ Bandcamp https://bandcamp.com/ AliveThai https://alive.in.th/ interest.me https://ch.interest.me/tvn 755 https://7gogo.jp/ nanagogo niconico https://www.nicovideo.jp/ nikonikoDong Hua 163 https://v.163.com/ Wang Yi Shi Pin https://music.163.com/ Wang Yi Yun Yin Le 56Wang https://www.56.com/ AcFun https://www.acfun.cn/ Baidu https://tieba.baidu.com/ Bai Du Tie Ba Bao Mi Hua Wang https://www.baomihua.com/ bilibili https://www.bilibili.com/ Bi Li Bi Li Dou Ban https://www.douban.com/ Dou Yu https://www.douyutv.com/ Feng Huang Shi Pin https://v.ifeng.com/ Feng Xing Wang https://www.fun.tv/ iQIYI https://www.iqiyi.com/ Ai Qi Yi Ji Dong Wang https://www.joy.cn/ Ku 6Wang https://www.ku6.com/ Ku Gou Yin Le https://www.kugou.com/ Ku Wo Yin Le https://www.kuwo.cn/ Le Shi Wang https://www.le.com/ Li Zhi FM https://www.lizhi.fm/ Lan Ren Ting Shu https://www.lrts.me/ Miao Pai https://www.miaopai.com/ MioMioDan Mu Wang https://www.miomio.tv/ MissEvan https://www.missevan.com/ Mao Er FM Pi Ke Bang https://www.pixnet.net/ PPTVJu Li https://www.pptv.com/ Qi Lu Wang https://v.iqilu.com/ QQ https://v.qq.com/ Teng Xun Shi Pin Qi E Zhi Bo https://live.qq.com/ Sina https://video.sina.com.cn/ Xin Lang Shi Pin https://video.weibo.com/ Wei Bo Miao Pai Shi Pin Sohu https://tv.sohu.com/ Sou Hu Shi Pin Tudou https://www.tudou.com/ Tu Dou Yang Guang Wei Shi https://www.isuntv.com/ Youku https://www.youku.com/ You Ku Zhan Qi TV https://www.zhanqi.tv/lives Yang Shi Wang https://www.cntv.cn/ Naver https://tvcast.naver.com/ neibeo Mang Guo TV https://www.mgtv.com/ Huo Mao TV https://www.huomao.com/ Yang Guang Kuan Pin Wang https://www.365yg.com/ Xi Gua Shi Pin https://www.ixigua.com/ Xin Pian Chang https://www.xinpianchang.com/ Kuai Shou https://www.kuaishou.com/ Dou Yin https://www.douyin.com/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/ Zhong Guo Ti Yu (TV) https://v.zhibo.tv/ https://video.zhibo.tv/ Zhi Hu https://www.zhihu.com/ For all other sites not on the list, the universal extractor will take care of finding and downloading interesting resources from the page. Known bugs If something is broken and you-get can't get you things you want, don't panic. (Yes, this happens all the time!) Check if it's already a known problem on https://github.com/soimort/ you-get/wiki/Known-Bugs. If not, follow the guidelines on how to report an issue. Getting Involved You can reach us on the Gitter channel #soimort/you-get (here's how you set up your IRC client for Gitter). If you have a quick question regarding you-get, ask it there. If you are seeking to report an issue or contribute, please make sure to read the guidelines first. Legal Issues This software is distributed under the MIT license. In particular, please be aware that THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. 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