You-Get is a tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web, in case there is no other handy way to do it.
Here's how you use you-get
to download a video from this web page:
$ you-get http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20140407-geneva-tedx-talk-free-software-free-society
Site: fsf.org
Title: TEDxGE2014_Stallman05_LQ
Type: WebM video (video/webm)
Size: 27.12 MiB (28435804 Bytes)
Downloading TEDxGE2014_Stallman05_LQ.webm ...
100.0% ( 27.1/27.1 MB) ├████████████████████████████████████████┤[1/1] 12 MB/s
And here's why you might want to use it:
What you-get
can do for you:
Interested? Install it now and get started by examples.
Are you a Python programmer? Then check out the source and fork it!
The following dependencies are required and must be installed separately, unless you are using a pre-built package on Windows:
The official release of you-get
is distributed on PyPI, and can be installed easily from a PyPI mirror via the pip package manager. Note that you must use the Python 3 version of pip
:
$ pip3 install you-get
Add the following line to your .zshrc
:
antigen bundle soimort/you-get
Download the exe
(standalone) or 7z
(all dependencies included) from: https://github.com/soimort/you-get/releases/latest.
You may either download the stable (identical with the latest release on PyPI) or the develop (more hotfixes, unstable features) branch of you-get
. Unzip it, and put the directory containing the you-get
script into your PATH
.
Alternatively, run
$ [sudo] python3 setup.py install
Or
$ python3 setup.py install --user
to install you-get
to a permanent path.
This is the recommended way for all developers, even if you don't often code in Python.
$ git clone git://github.com/soimort/you-get.git
Then put the cloned directory into your PATH
, or run ./setup.py install
to install you-get
to a permanent path.
Based on which option you chose to install you-get
, you may upgrade it via:
$ pip3 install --upgrade you-get
or download the latest release via:
$ you-get https://github.com/soimort/you-get/archive/master.zip
When you get a video of interest, you might want to use the --info
/-i
option to see all available quality and formats:
$ you-get -i 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw'
site: YouTube
title: Me at the zoo
streams: # Available quality and codecs
[ DEFAULT ] _________________________________
- itag: 43
container: webm
quality: medium
size: 0.5 MiB (564215 bytes)
# download-with: you-get --itag=43 [URL]
- itag: 18
container: mp4
quality: medium
# download-with: you-get --itag=18 [URL]
- itag: 5
container: flv
quality: small
# download-with: you-get --itag=5 [URL]
- itag: 36
container: 3gp
quality: small
# download-with: you-get --itag=36 [URL]
- itag: 17
container: 3gp
quality: small
# download-with: you-get --itag=17 [URL]
The format marked with DEFAULT
is the one you will get by default. If that looks cool to you, download it:
$ you-get 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw'
site: YouTube
title: Me at the zoo
stream:
- itag: 43
container: webm
quality: medium
size: 0.5 MiB (564215 bytes)
# download-with: you-get --itag=43 [URL]
Downloading zoo.webm ...
100.0% ( 0.5/0.5 MB) ├████████████████████████████████████████┤[1/1] 7 MB/s
Saving Me at the zoo.en.srt ...Done.
(If a YouTube video has any closed captions, they will be downloaded together with the video file, in SubRip subtitle format.)
Or, if you prefer another format (mp4), just use whatever the option you-get
shows to you:
$ you-get --itag=18 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw'
Note:
ffmpeg
is a required dependency, for downloading and joining videos streamed in multiple parts (e.g. on some sites like Youku), and for YouTube videos of 1080p or high resolution.you-get
to join video parts after downloading them, use the --no-merge
/-n
option.If you already have the URL of the exact resource you want, you can download it directly with:
$ you-get https://stallman.org/rms.jpg
Site: stallman.org
Title: rms
Type: JPEG Image (image/jpeg)
Size: 0.06 MiB (66482 Bytes)
Downloading rms.jpg ...
100.0% ( 0.1/0.1 MB) ├████████████████████████████████████████┤[1/1] 127 kB/s
Otherwise, you-get
will scrape the web page and try to figure out if there's anything interesting to you:
$ you-get http://kopasas.tumblr.com/post/69361932517
Site: Tumblr.com
Title: kopasas
Type: Unknown type (None)
Size: 0.51 MiB (536583 Bytes)
Site: Tumblr.com
Title: tumblr_mxhg13jx4n1sftq6do1_1280
Type: Portable Network Graphics (image/png)
Size: 0.51 MiB (536583 Bytes)
Downloading tumblr_mxhg13jx4n1sftq6do1_1280.png ...
100.0% ( 0.5/0.5 MB) ├████████████████████████████████████████┤[1/1] 22 MB/s
Note:
You can pass literally anything to you-get
. If it isn't a valid URL, you-get
will do a Google search and download the most relevant video for you. (It might not be exactly the thing you wish to see, but still very likely.)
$ you-get "Richard Stallman eats"
You may use Ctrl+C to interrupt a download.
A temporary .download
file is kept in the output directory. Next time you run you-get
with the same arguments, the download progress will resume from the last session. In case the file is completely downloaded (the temporary .download
extension is gone), you-get
will just skip the download.
To enforce re-downloading, use the --force
/-f
option. (Warning: doing so will overwrite any existing file or temporary file with the same name!)
Use the --output-dir
/-o
option to set the path, and --output-filename
/-O
to set the name of the downloaded file:
$ you-get -o ~/Videos -O zoo.webm 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw'
Tips:
You may specify an HTTP proxy for you-get
to use, via the --http-proxy
/-x
option:
$ you-get -x 127.0.0.1:8087 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw'
However, the system proxy setting (i.e. the environment variable http_proxy
) is applied by default. To disable any proxy, use the --no-proxy
option.
Tips:
you-get
with proxychains and set alias you-get="proxychains -q you-get"
(in Bash).--extractor-proxy
/-y
.Use the --player
/-p
option to feed the video into your media player of choice, e.g. mplayer
or vlc
, instead of downloading it:
$ you-get -p vlc 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw'
Or, if you prefer to watch the video in a browser, just without ads or comment section:
$ you-get -p chromium 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw'
Tips:
-p
option to start another download manager, e.g., you-get -p uget-gtk 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw'
, though they may not play together very well.Not all videos are publicly available to anyone. If you need to log in your account to access something (e.g., a private video), it would be unavoidable to feed the browser cookies to you-get
via the --cookies
/-c
option.
Note:
cookies.sqlite
and Netscape cookies.txt
.Use --url
/-u
to get a list of downloadable resource URLs extracted from the page. Use --json
to get an abstract of extracted data in the JSON format.
Warning:
For all other sites not on the list, the universal extractor will take care of finding and downloading interesting resources from the page.
If something is broken and you-get
can't get you things you want, don't panic. (Yes, this happens all the time!)
Check if it's already a known problem on https://github.com/soimort/you-get/wiki/Known-Bugs, and search on the list of open issues. If it has not been reported yet, open a new issue, with detailed command-line output attached.
You can reach us on the Gitter channel #soimort/you-get (here's how you set up your IRC client for Gitter). If you have a quick question regarding you-get
, ask it there.
All kinds of pull requests are welcome. However, there are a few guidelines to follow:
develop
branch is where your pull request should go.This software is distributed under the MIT license.
In particular, please be aware that
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Translated to human words:
In case your use of the software forms the basis of copyright infringement, or you use the software for any other illegal purposes, the authors cannot take any responsibility for you.
We only ship the code here, and how you are going to use it is left to your own discretion.
Made by @soimort, who is in turn powered by :coffee:, :pizza: and :ramen:.
You can find the list of all contributors here.