Download videos and music from You Tube through your terminal

Description

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Viflex is a cli app for youtube videos with several features, it can download playlist, audios and video covers. The focus is as objective as possible without having to take many steps to start your download directly in the desired folder, designed for video editors who need research and visuals or sound on youtube.

Installation

• Download the executable
• Decompress the file
• Put the folder address in environment variable PATH (optional)

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How to use

Recommended to put the exe file address in environment variable PATH, follow this tutorial

• On Windows
• On Ubuntu

Open the terminal in the directory where you want to save the file

On windows use this shortcut

Features

Viflex commands can be run like this

viflex "video url"  optional flags

or this format

viflex optional flags "video url"  

All optional flags

short format	long format	example arguments	help
-v	--video	--	download only the video
-t	--thumbnail	--	download only the audio
-pl	--playlist	--	download all videos from playlist
-i	--info	--	show detailed information about video or playlist
--	--version	--	show de current version and exit
-h	--	--	show help message and exit
-r	--resolution	1080p	select video resolution
-p	--path	E:\videos	select output folder

Usage

How to download a video

viflex -v "video url"  

How to download audio from the video

viflex -a "video url"  

How to download all videos from playlist

viflex -v -pl "playlist url"  

How to download the video thumbnail

viflex -t "video url"  

You can make combinations to get the desired result, for example download the audio and thumbnail of all the videos in the play list

viflex -t -a -pl "playlist url" 

How to download a video with a specific quality

viflex -v -r 2160p "video url"  

Progressive vs Adaptive videos

When you do not specify the video resolution, the best progressive resolution is chosen, the difference between progressive videos and adaptive videos is that in progressive videos the video and audio are contained in a single file while in adaptive videos they are separated, most progressive videos have only 720p and 360p resolutions, this means that when downloading video in 2160p (4k) the video and audio will be separated, joining the files is a functionality to be implemented

Comments

• If you haven't put the folder address in the environment variable you can just run the commands in the same directory as the executable

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