Does anyone here know how youtube-dl works internally ? Can anyone Just explain how youtube-dl is able to download the videos of Safari books because I want to know how it operates so that I can make video downloader for many other sites which uses .m3u8 or streams .

YoutubeDL.extract_info is a good place to start; it checks a provided URL against the extractors (from the extractor package ) that are known , each of which has site-specific rules for extracting content URLs from a web page. Once an extractor returns a URL and other metadata, it eventually call…

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No i wanted to download it through paython script programmatically just like youtube-dl does. Although youtube-dl is open source but i am terrible at reading someone else’s code to be fair .

[รูปภาพ] GitHub - ytdl-org/youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos from... Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Really ? like really , did you even read what i am asking ?

Can you take example of YouTube or twitter and demonstrate how to go about because when I see the video source of the video tag , it is like blob: https://YouTube.com/some_hash_code and same goes for twitter. If a site has video pointing directly to a video source then it’s easy to download but like …

I have been one of its contributors. basically when you give an url, the corresponding extractor is called. That will parse the url’s html, get required details, such as id, name of the video, timestamp, video id, likes/upvotes, etc. Generally, everything isn’t needed, but a few are absolutely neede…

So how do they extract download link of hls encoded video because they are very tough to extract. if possible take the example of any twitter video and explain. Because twitter also uses hls encoding.

There’s a lot to explain. Take a look @ https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py . The code is beautifully written easy to understand.

[SOLVED] Does anyone here know how youtube-dl works internally

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Aina เมษายน 6, 2020, 1:05pm 2

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how it works and how to make one, I will check and solve it if possible.

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[SOLVED] Does anyone here know how youtube-dl works internally

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