synox / youtube-dl-interactive

OBSOLETE - Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl

youtube-dl-interactive is inactive.

This was just an experiment. Yes it was possible make this tiny tool with nodejs, a few shell scripts, python scripts, or bash aliases would have been more helpful.

youtube-dl-interactive's Issues

Handle cases when youtube-dl throws an error

The resolution selection dialogue doesn't work when youtube-dl gives an error.

You should probably handle those cases by passing the error message along to the user.

Feature request: Support -i <PLAYLISTID> flag.

Feature request: Support -i flag.

Error when converting audio

on Windows 10

Reduce install size

With all the dependencies it is just too much.

Mix 'video only' with audio, use JSON output

eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLqIbhzrrls

After loading format , there are only 3 options : audio only / 640x360 / 1280x720

And this video has '1920x1080' video only (no audio ) format

{ format: '137',
code: '',
extension: 'mp4',
resolution: '1920x1080',
note: '1080p 2447k , avc1.640028, 25fps, video only, 21.67MiB' },

I know that the video only format is exclude by code

	remainingFormats = remainingFormats.filter(
		f => f.note.indexOf('video only') === -1
	)

So I want the '1920x1080' mp4 video and also with audio .

It is easy to do with command below

youtube-dl  -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best'  https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=HLqIbhzrrls 

youtube-dl will merge format video '1920x1080' and audio only m4a format automatically. but I cannot do that with youtube-dl-interactive.

Suggestion : Include video only format in the options and merge video only format with best audio format .

Crashes when ran on CentOS 7

[twiclo@toph ~]$ node --version
v6.16.0
[twiclo@toph ~]$ npm --version
3.10.10

[twiclo@toph ~]$ youtube-dl-interactive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VheNpiSZxf0
/usr/lib/node_modules/youtube-dl-interactive/cli.js:15
async function init(args) {
      ^^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token function
    at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:549:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:586:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:494:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:453:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:445:3)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:611:10)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:394:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:160:9)

I ran sudo npm install -g https://github.com/synox/youtube-dl-interactive to install

label:enhancement using standalone youtube-dl

I have stopped installing youtube-dl (from time to time it just stop working because of python related installation/update). I now using it as standalone executable which I invoke like the following:

some-path/youtube-dl ..

Will be nice if the user can specify where to find the standalone youtube-dl executable.

youtube-dl-interactive --youtube-dl-path "path-to-standalone-executable" URL

I think the change should be straightforward. And I can implement the feature and submit a PR in this weekend.
Thank you for the work and let me know if you will be interested in this feature.

can't install youtube-dl-interactive

I have youtube-dl installed. And i use [email protected]. But some error appear when i install youtube-dl-interactive. It warns me that: 'No matching version found for parse-columns@^2.0.0'. But the latest version of 'parse-columns' is 2.0.0 in this address(https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-columns). the dependencies in 'package.json' must be '"parse-columns": "2.0.0"' instead of '"parse-columns": "^2.0.0"'.

Use audio of video if available

If the selected video has audio, offer this as default in the audio menu.

youtube-dl -f '137+bestaudio' will probably download two files instead of one.

Unsupported URL: https://www.youtube.com/ after Update to 0.1.0

Hi, I was not longer able to use the tool and had to update it:

   │                                                │
   │        Update available 0.0.3 → 0.1.0          │
   │   Run npm i youtube-dl-interactive to update   │
   │                                                │
   ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

I did that, but now I am getting:

✖ Error while loading metadata
Error: youtube-dl stopped with error:

WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.youtube.com/

    at Object.exports.getInfo (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/youtube-dl-interactive/ytdl-api.js:11:9)
    at fetchInfo (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/youtube-dl-interactive/cli.js:98:30)
    at run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/youtube-dl-interactive/cli.js:67:11)
    at init (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/youtube-dl-interactive/cli.js:55:9)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/youtube-dl-interactive/cli.js:59:1)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:776:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:787:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:643:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:556:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:839:10)

What am I doing wrong? Can I go back to the previous version and switch off the update check?

dep not found in npm repo

lib version too high

Feature: add presets

First question:

? Select presets or resolution:
- Best audio + video
- Smallest file size
- only audio
- 480x240
- 1024x720