search-and-dl

Search and Download

A command-line app to easily search for and download videos and music.

• Search and Download
  • Quickstart
    • Installation
    • Example Usage
  • Usage
  • Fixing the Python Thing
    • Linux
    • Windows

Quickstart

Installation

Because of a weird quirk in the main dependency, youtube-dl-exec, the python command must be available on your machine (not py, not python3). If it isn't, bin-version-check-cli will throw an error, preventing you from installing anything in the first place. As far as I can tell, there's no easy solution to this, but I'd like to get it fixed soon. For fixes in the meantime, see Fixing the Python Thing.

Then, all you need to do is run

npm i search-and-dl -g

and you can run sad in the command line from anywhere.

Example Usage

• sad -s "bruh sound effect" -p youtube will download the top result for "bruh sound effect" from youtube, as a video.
• sad -s "bruh sound effect" -p youtube -a does the same as above, but only saves an audio file.
• sad -s "bruh sound effect" -p youtube -t will save the thumbnail of the video as an image file, as well as downloading the video.

Usage

Usage: sad -s <search> -p <platform> [options]

Options:
      --help       Show help                                           [boolean]
      --version    Show version number                                 [boolean]
  -s, --search     What to search for                        [string] [required]
  -p, --platform   What platform to search on
                          [string] [required] [choices: "youtube", "soundcloud"]
  -a, --audio      Only download audio, not video     [boolean] [default: false]
  -t, --thumbnail  Save the thumbnail image           [boolean] [default: false]

Fixing the Python Thing

Linux

Installing python-is-python3 will make the python command functional, if the only one you have is python3.

sudo apt install python-is-python3

Windows

If you attempt to run python from the command line and don't have it installed, Windows will open the microsoft store page for Python 3. All you need to do is install it from there.