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@qodestack/dl-yt-playlist
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Download all videos from a YouTube playlist. You can optionally download the audio and thumbnail images as well.
You'll need a few things to use this project:
API_KEY
env variable.The type signature looks like this:
downloadYoutubePlaylist({
/** YouTube playlist id. */
playlistId: string
/**
* YouTube API key. This will be used to fetch all metadata for videos in the
* playlist.
*/
youTubeApiKey: string
/**
* The absolute path to where the data should be stored. Sub-folders will be
* created as needed. The folder structure will be:
*
* - `<directory>/metadata.json` - an array of objects (`Video[]`)
* - `<directory>/audio` - contains the audio files
* - `<directory>/video` - contains the video files
* - `<directory>/thumbnails` - contains the jpg thumbnail files
*/
directory: string
/**
* `'none'` - No files will be downloaded, including thumbnails. Only the
* `metadata.json` file will be written.
*
* `'audio'` - Download only audio files as determined by the `audioFormat`
* option. Defaults to `'mp3'`.
*
* `'video'` - Download only video files as determined by the `videoFormat`
* option. Defaults to `'mp4'`
*
* `'both'` - Download audio and video files as determined by their
* corresponding format options.
*/
downloadType: DownloadType
/**
* Optional - default value `'mp3'`
*
* A valid ffmpeg audio [format](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#format-selection) string.
*/
audioFormat?: string
/**
* Optional - default value `'mp4'`
*
* A valid ffmpeg video [format](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#format-selection) string.
*/
videoFormat?: string
/**
* Optional - default value `false`
*
* A boolean indicating wether to download a `.jpg` thumbnail for each video.
* The highest resolution available will be downloaded. Only thumbnails for
* new videos will be downloaded.
*/
downloadThumbnails?: boolean
/**
* Optional - default value `Infinity`
*
* The maximum duration in seconds a playlist item can be to be downloaded.
*/
maxDurationSeconds?: number
/**
* Optional - default value `undefined`
*
* A _positive_ number (max of 50) indicating how many items in the playlist
* to retrieve, starting with the most recent. Negative and invalid numbers
* will be ignored. All items will be retrieved if no value is provided.
*
* I.e. `mostRecentItemsCount: 20` will only retrieve data for the most recent
* 20 videos in the playlist. This option is useful when running in a cron job
* to avoid fetching and parsing the entire list when you may already have a
* substantial portion processed and downloaded already.
*/
mostRecentItemsCount?: number
/**
* Optional - default value `false`
*
* Boolean indicating wether to silence all internal console.log's.
*/
silent?: boolean
/**
* Options - default value `4`
*
* The number of concurrent fetch calls made to the YouTube
* [VideosList API](https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list).
*/
maxConcurrentFetchCalls?: number
/**
* Options - default value `10`
*
* The number of concurrent downloads to process. We use
* [Bun's shell](https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/shell) to asychronously execute
* the [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) command.
*/
maxConcurrentYtdlpCalls?: number
/**
* Optiona - default value `false`
*
* Boolean indicated whether to save the response data directly from the
* YouTube API. This can be helpful for debugging. If set to `true`, two files
* will be saved:
*
* - youtubePlaylistResponses.json
* - youtubeVideoResponses.json
*/
saveRawResponses?: boolean
}): Promise<FailuresObj>
Downloads will be organized into the following folder structure:
directory-you-provided
/<playlist name>
/video
<title> [<video id>].mp4
...
/audio
<title> [<video id>].mp3
...
/thumbnails
<video id>.jpg
...
metadata.json
youtubePlaylistResponses.json (only if `saveRawResponses` is true)
youtubeVideoResponses.json (only if `saveRawResponses` is true)
/video | This folder will contain all the video files (file extension is dependent upon `audioFormat` option). |
/audio | This folder will contain all the audio files (file extension is dependent upon `videoFormat` option). |
/thumbnails | This folder will contain all the jpg thumbnail files |
metadata.json | This file will contain an array of metadata on each video. See shape below |
youtubePlaylistResponses.json | This file will contain an array of raw responses from YouTube's PlaylistItems: list api. |
youtubeVideoResponses.json | This file will contain an array of raw responses from YouTube's Videos: list api. |
Each video will have metadata stored in the metadata.json
file with the following shape:
{
id: string
title: string
description: string
channelId: string
channelName: string
dateCreated: string
dateAddedToPlaylist: string
thumbnailUrl: string | null
durationInSeconds: number
url: string
channelUrl: string | null
audioFileExtension: string | null
videoFileExtension: string | null
/**
* This value will be changed to `true` when future API calls are made and the
* video is found to be unavailable. This will allow us to retain previously
* fetch metadata.
*/
isUnavailable: boolean
}
FAQs
Download all videos (or audio only) from a YouTube playlist!
The npm package @qodestack/dl-yt-playlist receives a total of 94 weekly downloads. As such, @qodestack/dl-yt-playlist popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @qodestack/dl-yt-playlist demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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