This project adds support for multiple files downloading with youtube-dl. youtube-dl is a command line utility to download files from major streaming website (youtube, etc). At the moment you can only download files one at a time with youtube-dl.

youtube-multiple-dl is a lightweight job queue around youtube-dl for parallel downloads, it provides a command line interface to :

1. Start multiple download workers
2. Manage the queue : add URL to download, delete, list downloads progress, etc

There are several benefits to using a job queue over a text file to manage URLs to downloads :

• Retries : In case a download fails it will be automatically retried
• Priority : you can set order of downloads by setting a priority level to a URL
• Concurrency : Easily downloads multiple files in parallel by adding more worker process

youtube-dl must be installed. To ensure it is available, on your command line, run which youtube-dl. For example, it might return /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl.

If youtube-dl is not installed, check the youtube-dl install instructions

• Clone this repository
• Bundle install
• rake db:migrate

First start some download worker, for example if you want to download 3 files at the same time :

youtube-multiple-dl --start --worker_number 3

Then add some url to the queue :

youtube-multiple-dl -add https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7RnH6bnGHc

For more information see help :

Usage: youtube-multiple-dl [options] [URL]
  -o, --output OUTPUT              Set output directory
  -s, --start                      Start downloading
  -w, --worker_number NUMBER       Number of paralell downloads
  -a, --add                        Add url to download
  -p, --priority PRIORITY          Set a priority for the download
  -d, --delete URL                 Delete url from queue
  -c, --clear                      delete all urls
  -l, --list                       List urls in queue
  -i, --import FILE                Import batch file of url to dowload
  -h, --help                       Prints this help

There is no hard limit to the number of worker you can start. However, this project uses SQLite for the job queue. SQLite can handle some concurrency, but you should not start more than a few workers process (< 5)

To avoid dependency to a heavier database (Postgres, Redis, etc). Since this project is primarily designed to be used on a personal computer we can't expect to have any database running.

• Fork it https://github.com/vdaubry/youtube-multiple-dl/fork
• Create your feature branch git checkout -b my-new-feature
• Commit your changes git commit -am 'Add some feature'
• Push to the branch git push origin my-new-feature
• Create a new Pull Request

This project is available under the MIT license. See the license file for more details.