Youtube Video downloader module (?) [Open Source]

Brief description

A paragraph describing in a nutshell what the project does. Context and relevance.

A module to download videos from yotube url (as well as other) would be useful. Perhaps with support to download captions when available.

Inspired by kshivanku/VideoEditor

Electron app proof of concept:

I got frustrated with the firefox plugin I was using to achieve the same and so I gave it a try at making an electron app, video-downloader that given a youtube url can

• download the file locally as mp4

• download as mp3, wav, mov

• download associated captions.

using youtube-dl but can't seem to work with vimeo.

It be good for this to be compatible with direct url to video files.

Stage of production:

eg, prototype, working app, rolled out with users etc..

youtube-dl exists as a library. Example usage in projects mentioned above. A component needs to be defined and abstracted. also needs evaluating whether this is necessary, using youtube-dl might prove to be enough for most cases?

Any blockers?

What are the things that are currently most challenging for your project?

• Feedback on how to extract/create a standalone reusable module to download videos from youtube (and others

• and what the interface should be,

• if anyone knows how youtube-dl binary is implemented under the hood? eg does it use ffmpeg? can it be used cross platform?

Components

Any components you'd like to abstract/share/open source?

Github repo if available

Github repo for the project if open source

Demo Video

Link to site, demo (and/or video)

Website

eg github project page or README where can find out more

List of Stack used

Eg programming languages, frameworks etc..

• node

• electron

• youtube-dl

Contributors list

People working on this project

• Pietro

Link to trello card: Youtube Video downloader module (?) [Open Source]

Labels

Node module,