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Get YouTube. Tiny wrapper on youtube-dl for running on Android and prompting for URL
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# get-youtube.py | |
# Wrapper around youtube-dl for Android | |
# Grabs URL from clipboard if it's a YouTube one. Otherwises prompts for URL | |
# See https://conoroneill.net/downloading-youtube-videos-for-offline-viewing-on-android/ for instructions | |
# Copyright Conor O'Neill 2018. Apache License 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt | |
from __future__ import unicode_literals | |
from androidhelper import Android | |
droid = Android() | |
import youtube_dl | |
def input_default(prompt, default): | |
return raw_input("%s [%s] " % (prompt, default)) or default | |
# If clipboard URL is a YouTube one, grab it and automatically download | |
if droid.getClipboard().result.startswith('https://youtu'): | |
url = droid.getClipboard().result | |
else: | |
# Either the clipboard is empty or it has a non-YouTube URL. User must paste the required URL. | |
url = raw_input("YouTube URL?: ") | |
ydl_opts = { | |
'nocheckcertificate': True, | |
'outtmpl': '%(title)s.%(ext)s' | |
} | |
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: | |
ydl.download([url]) | |
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