A Pythonista extension for downloading videos using youtube-dl.

ydl-extension.py

import appex
import console
import os
import sys
import tempfile
import youtube_dl

def main():
  url = None
  if not appex.is_running_extension():
    print('Running in Pythonista app, using test data...\n')
    url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj'
  if url is None:
    url = appex.get_url()
  if url is None:
    url = appex.get_text()
  if url is None:
    sys.exit('No input URL found.')

  with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as d:
    dlpath = os.path.join(d, '%(title)s.%(ext)s')
    download(url, outtmpl=dlpath)
    for f in os.listdir(d):
      fpath = os.path.join(d, f)
      console.open_in(fpath)

def download(url, **opts):
  with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(opts) as ydl:
    ydl.download([url])

if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()