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Keyur Patel
Keyur Patel

Reputation: 67

How can i download high quality you tube video using ytdl-core package in nodejs

my code snippet as below:

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const ytdl = require('ytdl-core');
const fs = require('fs')
var router = express.Router();
router.get('/', function (req, res, next) {
    console.log('rputer calld')
    let url = "https://youtu.be/nD_NDngrEl8";
    ytdl(url).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('./presentation/video.webm'));
    res.end();
})
app.use(router);
app.listen(2222, () => {
    console.log('app listingin on 2222')
})

I have used express server and put a youtube URL, which I wanted to download in its high quality.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 14584

Answers (4)

user23063356
user23063356

Reputation: 1

just use the npm package "ytdl-max"

https://www.npmjs.com/package/ytdl-max

https://github.com/BrunoItacaramby/Youtube-Downloader

You just need to start coping the youtube links and it will download automatically, high quality videos, audio or lower quality videos!

Upvotes: 0

Mahmoud Mansour
Mahmoud Mansour

Reputation: 11

For your requirements "High Quality" you can use the filter function to return the video with the highest format

const video = ytdl(url, {
  filter: function (format) {
    return format.quality== "highest";
  },
});

Or using the quality's itag which is a constant number for each quality (ex. for 720p itag = 22)

const iTag = 22;
const video = ytdl(url, {
  filter: function (format) {
    return format.itag === iTag;
  },
});

Upvotes: 1

Mandeep Singh
Mandeep Singh

Reputation: 575

this is working perfect download video change ./presentation/video.webm to video.mp4

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const ytdl = require('ytdl-core');
const fs = require('fs')
var router = express.Router();
router.get('/', function (req, res, next) {
    console.log('rputer calld')
    let url = "https://youtu.be/nD_NDngrEl8";
    ytdl(url).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('video.mp4'));
    res.end();
})
app.use(router);
app.listen(2222, () => {
    console.log('app listingin on 2222')
})

Upvotes: 1

Nikunj Chaklasiya
Nikunj Chaklasiya

Reputation: 818

High-quality YouTube videos just don't have sound included. Generally, you have to download separate video and audio and mux the two files as you have said.

You want to mux the two files in real-time as they are downloading rather than at the end of downloading.

Well, FFmpeg can do that if you provide matching video and audio URLs from info. formats in place of downloaded filenames, you can then save the muxed output to file, pipe, or stream it to whatever or wherever. The time to completion will be much longer but you can theoretically start consuming the output immediately as if you were watching it on YouTube. But then, I suppose the question is, why not just watch it on YouTube?

Some Example:

FFmpeg with streams: https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl-core/blob/master/example/ffmpeg.js

Muxed stream: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ytdl-core-muxer

Upvotes: 2

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