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youtubedl-ext

Extension to download youtube videos as MP3 files from a single click using a locally running server Firefox Extension Link: HERE

Requirements

  • Node & npm/yarn
  • Have ffmpeg in your $PATH
  • Specify a music file location in server/config.json

Details

It uses a local hosted server on port 3050 to use ytdl and ffmpeg to download youtube videos from an injected button via the extension The button should be next to the subscribe button like so Button Location

How to use

  • Have node, npm or yarn. for my case I use yarn
  • Run yarn in server/
  • Run yarn build to get the dist folder
  • Then either run yarn start as a background process, but you should really use pm2, you can install it using yarn global add pm2
  • With pm2 run pm2 start dist/server.js and it will run in the background
  • You can use pm2 status to check the status of the current running server

Features to add

  • Allow configuring of which url the button requests to
  • Better logs serverside in case something goes wrong
  • Better button UI
  • Currently doesn't load if you start on a non watch url

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