First of all thanks for providing awesone python scripts.
Sometime we need to download youtube video as audio files only. I have added that support in youtubeDownloader.py. I also observed "UnicodeEncodeError" error for few videos. Added fix for that also.
Description
Added option to download only audio output of youtube video
The changes are as follows:
Modified code to configure ydl_opts['format'] option to only audio or audio+video based on input provide
Observed "UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\uff5c' in position 86: character maps to <undefined>" error while downloading few of the videos. Added 'restrictfilenames': 'True', option to fix this. Refer - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/5819
Checks
Validated downloads with multiple videos.
in the repository
[x] Made no changes that degrades the functioning of the repository
[x] Gave each commit a better title (unlike updated README.md)
in the PR
[x] Followed the format of the pull_request_template
[x] Made the Pull Request in a small level (for the creator's wellfare)
Added support to download audio output only
Summary
First of all thanks for providing awesone python scripts. Sometime we need to download youtube video as audio files only. I have added that support in youtubeDownloader.py. I also observed "UnicodeEncodeError" error for few videos. Added fix for that also.
Description
Added option to download only audio output of youtube video
The changes are as follows:
"UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\uff5c' in position 86: character maps to <undefined>"error while downloading few of the videos. Added'restrictfilenames': 'True',option to fix this. Refer - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/5819Checks
Validated downloads with multiple videos.
in the repository
in the PR
Thank You,
Shailesh Vaidya