yt-dlp-host API Client

This is a Python library for interacting with the yt-dlp-host API.

Installation

You can install the library using pip:

pip install yt-dlp-host-api

Usage

Here's a basic example of how to use the library:

import yt_dlp_host_api

# Initialize the API client
api = yt_dlp_host_api.api('http://your-api-url.com')
client = api.get_client('YOUR_API_KEY')

# Download a complete video in MP4 format
client.get_video(url='https://youtu.be/1FPdtR_5KFo', output_format='mp4').save_file("test_video.mp4")
print("Video saved to test_video.mp4")

# Download a video in WebM format
client.get_video(url='https://youtu.be/1FPdtR_5KFo', output_format='webm').save_file("test_video.webm")
print("Video saved to test_video.webm")

# Download video without audio (animation/GIF friendly)
client.get_video(
    url='https://youtu.be/1FPdtR_5KFo',
    audio_format=None
).save_file("video_no_audio.mp4")
print("Video without audio saved to video_no_audio.mp4")

# Download a video segment with precise cutting
client.get_video(
    url='https://youtu.be/1FPdtR_5KFo',
    output_format='mkv',
    start_time="00:05:00",
    end_time="00:10:00",
    force_keyframes=True
).save_file("precise_cut.mkv")
print("Precisely cut segment saved to precise_cut.mkv")

# Download a video segment with faster cutting at keyframes
client.get_video(
    url='https://youtu.be/1FPdtR_5KFo',
    output_format='mp4',
    start_time="00:05:00",
    end_time="00:10:00",
    force_keyframes=False
).save_file("keyframe_cut.mp4")
print("Keyframe-cut segment saved to keyframe_cut.mp4")

# Download a complete audio in MP3 format
client.get_audio(url='https://youtu.be/1FPdtR_5KFo', output_format='mp3').save_file("test_audio.mp3")
print("Audio saved to test_audio.mp3")

# Download audio in FLAC format (lossless)
client.get_audio(url='https://youtu.be/1FPdtR_5KFo', output_format='flac').save_file("test_audio.flac")
print("Audio saved to test_audio.flac")

# Get info
info_json = client.get_info(url='https://youtu.be/1FPdtR_5KFo').get_json(['qualities', 'title'])
print("Video info:", info_json)

# Admin operations (requires admin API key)
new_key = client.create_key("user_key", ["get_video", "get_audio", "get_info"])
keys = client.get_keys()
key = client.get_key("user_key")
client.delete_key("user_key")

Features

• Download YouTube videos
  • Download complete videos
  • Download video without an audio track
  • Download specific time segments
    • Precise cutting with frame re-encoding
    • Fast cutting at keyframes
  • Choose video and audio quality
  • Choose output format (MP4, MKV, WebM, AVI, MOV, FLV)
• Download YouTube audio
  • Download complete audio
  • Download specific time segments
  • Choose audio quality
  • Choose output format (MP3, M4A, Opus, FLAC, WAV, AAC, OGG)
• Extract live stream segments
• Retrieve video information
• Checking client permissions
• Admin operations:
  • Create new API keys
  • List existing API keys
  • Get API key by key name
  • Delete API keys

API Reference

Client

• client.get_video(url, video_format="bestvideo", audio_format="bestaudio", output_format="mp4", start_time=None, end_time=None, force_keyframes=False): Get video with optional time segment selection. To download video without audio, set audio_format=None.
• client.get_audio(url, audio_format="bestaudio", output_format=None, start_time=None, end_time=None, force_keyframes=False): Get audio with optional time segment selection.
• client.get_live_video(url, duration, start=0, video_format="bestvideo", audio_format="bestaudio", output_format="mp4"): Get live video segment.
• client.get_live_audio(url, duration, start=0, audio_format="bestaudio", output_format=None): Get live audio segment.
• client.get_info(url): Get video information.
• client.send_task.get_video(url, video_format="bestvideo", audio_format="bestaudio", output_format="mp4", start_time=None, end_time=None, force_keyframes=False): Initiate a video download task. Set audio_format=None for video without audio.
• client.send_task.get_audio(url, audio_format="bestaudio", output_format=None, start_time=None, end_time=None, force_keyframes=False): Initiate an audio download task.
• client.send_task.get_live_video(url, duration, start=0, video_format="bestvideo", audio_format="bestaudio", output_format="mp4"): Initiate a live video download task.
• client.send_task.get_live_audio(url, duration, start=0, audio_format="bestaudio", output_format=None): Initiate a live audio download task.
• client.send_task.get_info(url): Initiate an info retrieval task.
• client.check_permissions(permissions): Check for all permissions in the list.

Supported Output Formats

Video Formats

• mp4 - MPEG-4 Part 14 (recommended)
• mkv - Matroska
• webm - WebM
• avi - Audio Video Interleave
• mov - QuickTime File Format
• flv - Flash Video

Audio Formats

• mp3 - MPEG Audio Layer III
• m4a - MPEG-4 Audio
• opus - Opus Audio
• flac - Free Lossless Audio Codec
• wav - Waveform Audio File Format
• aac - Advanced Audio Coding
• ogg - Ogg Vorbis

Note: If output_format is not specified for audio, the original format will be used.

Time Format

Time parameters (start_time and end_time) should be provided in the following format:

• "HH:MM:SS" (hours:minutes:seconds) Examples:
• "00:05:00" - 5 minutes
• "01:30:45" - 1 hour, 30 minutes, and 45 seconds

Cutting Modes

The force_keyframes parameter determines how video/audio segments are cut:

• force_keyframes=False (default): Faster cutting that aligns to nearest keyframes. May not be exactly at specified timestamps but is much faster as it avoids re-encoding.
• force_keyframes=True: Precise cutting at exact timestamps. This requires re-encoding which takes longer but provides exact cuts.

Task

• task.get_status(): Get the current status of a task
• task.get_result(): Wait for and return the result of a task

TaskResult

• result.get_file(): Get the file
• result.get_file_url(): Get the URL of the downloaded file
• result.save_file(path): Save the downloaded file to the specified path
• result.get_json(fields=None): Get the JSON data for info tasks (optionally filtered by fields)

Admin

• client.create_key(name, permissions): Create a new API key
• client.get_keys(): List all existing API keys
• client.get_key(name): Get API key by key name
• client.delete_key(name): Delete an API key

Error Handling

The library uses exceptions to handle errors. Catch yt_dlp_host_api.exceptions.APIError to handle API-related errors.

Contributing

Contributions to yt-dlp-host-api are welcome! If you have any suggestions, bug reports, or feature requests, please open an issue on the GitHub repository. Pull requests are also encouraged.