This is a workflow for easily downloading videos (and/or extracting audio) from various websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion and more... It uses youtube-dl as the core component.
Main Features:
Download video from URL. vd {video-url}
Download and extract audio into an MP3 file. vd-audio {video-url}
Display and download video metadata (json). vd-info {video-url}
Update core component (youtube-dl). vd-update
Display quick help in Large Type. vd-help
Note: vd-update command currently only updates youtube-dl, not the workflow itself.
Please see full details, updates (and source) of the project at GitHub. Download Video Downloader workflow.
Here is a full visual list of what Video Downloader can do:
And here is how the workflow nodes look like:
Requirements:
For the audio extraction (vd-audio) feature to work, you should install FFmpeg yourself manually (because of licensing issues). If you don't have it already; you can find details on how to install FFmpeg at the GitHub page.
--- (While writing this, I found out about Vítor's workflow; which is also nice and uses youtube-dl. Well, I'm releasing this anyway for it's extra features like audio conversion, metadata info, etc..)
Pls. drop a note if you like it...
Thanks.
