Is there a way to download YouTube videos through an IRC channel?
reddit / irc

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spitfire_x84 · 2019-02-06 14:30

Something like youtube-dl where I send an URL and I receive the video
in a file.

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[deleted] · 2019-02-06 14:33

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spitfire_x84 · 2019-02-06 14:35

If I wanted to program a bot to do that where could I start?

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ElectronicMotion · 2019-02-06 15:09

It depends on what you know about programming :)

But please be aware of that IRC can't transfer files on its own.You
will need to open up some other communication. (p2p or download from
website or so)

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EDIT: Appended some info.

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spitfire_x84 · 2019-02-06 15:18

Thanks, from what I've seen on Google maybe the best option to me
would be to write it in PHP.

I would contact the bot from a closed connection, it would download
the file on an open connection and send it to me.

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ElectronicMotion · 2019-02-06 15:23

I honestly dont know how a IRC Bot in PHP would work, I only can say
that Python did work for me like a charm in the past. :)

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Maybe you can send your self a link where you stored the downloaded
video? I know that there are some IRC clients with a DCC feature. I
think mIRC could do that.

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spitfire_x84 · 2019-02-06 15:24

Yes, maybe it's better to send the link than to send the file itself.

Thanks

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ElectronicMotion · 2019-02-06 15:25

Sure, u are welcome! :)

I think the most complicated thing should be the download (and
conversion, if needed).

But maybe there are librarys for php which have functions for that.
Idk.

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[deleted] · 2019-02-06 15:39

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JeHugawa · 2019-02-06 16:38

Trust me you don't want to use php trust me. as most said python is
way to go but most important is that you dont use php.

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spitfire_x84 · 2019-02-06 16:43

LOL ok, I wont' use PHP.

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ElectronicMotion · 2019-02-07 08:24

Python also has some neat librarys that can do most of the work. :)

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pedz · 2019-02-07 12:42

I personally would use [eggdrop](https://www.eggheads.org/) and a TCL
script. The bot is already done and you just need to load a script to
complement it.

I'm very bad with TCL but I've made a few scripts calling bash scripts
to get the title of the URLs pasted into my chan. You can use a
keyword trigger so that it doesn't do every video posted on your chan.
Like prefixing your URL with youtube-dl or something like that.

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spitfire_x84 · 2019-02-07 13:15

I'm already working with Python but I'll surely take a look.

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uneducatedcontrarian · 2019-03-03 21:52

In my opinion the simplest route here would be using Perl's
POE::Component::IRC module and streamlink. You'd use regex to grab the
trigger (!youtube, etc.) from the channel's buffer then download the
file using streamlink and initiate a dcc transfer to the user who
requested it. Unlike youtube-dl, streamlink lets you select quality so
could add another arg for that as well.