youtube-dl-plugin

A plugin to ease your download through youtube-dl


Keywords
youtube-dl, youtube, downloader
License
Other
Install
pip install youtube-dl-plugin==1.6

Documentation

Youtube-dl plugin to automatically start your download:

A Python script to constantly watch your clipboard content, and download if its a youtube link!

Automatic setup and starting [Limited to Linux based OS at the moment]:

Python Libraries you need to install:

-> Pyperclip

Windows users can download it from here

Linux users can grab it by typing the following in terminal

sudo pip install pyperclip

Steps to setup:

  1. Install Youtube-dl plugin
  2. Copy youtube_dl_plugin.py from the youtube-dl-plugin folder and paste it in the same folder where your youtube-dl executable(by rg3) is saved.
  3. Make sure the name of the downloader executable is youtube.exe
  4. Run Youtube.py

Screenshot:

alt tag

You are good to go!

So from now on, if you copy a youtube link it will automatically start to download the video! Cheers :)

Thanks rg3 for youtube-dl and making it as open source!