NodeJs - Youtube Video Downloader

The best use case of Nodejs is its ability to stream content in chunks using pipes . This app is developed to use this feature to create a Media Downloader in Nodejs for downloading Video / Audio files from Youtube . Since downloading from youtube is not allowed, we use the popular youtube-dl as a child process in our application.

Preview

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Git
• Node.js and npm Node ^13.0.1, npm ^6.12.0
• Youtube-dl
• FFmpeg
• Run youtube-dl --version to check if Youtube-dl is installed correctly.
• Run ffmpeg -version to check if FFmpeg is installed correctly.
• Proceed only if above 2 packages are installed correctly and versions are displayed in terminal.
• Create your own Youtube API KEY for getting search results for queries. It's free of cost. Dont worry :)
• Goto routes/youtube_search.js and update const YOUTUBE_API_KEY = ' YOUR - API - KEY - HERE';

Developing

1. Run npm install to install server dependencies.

2. Run npm start to start the development server.

3. Open your favorite browser and goto localhost:3000

4. Search for any video and enjoy your download :)