dlvid-core

A driver for downloading video sources from various sites. A lot of modules have been ported from youtube-dl for use in node without the dependency of python.

Providers

• Youtube (ytdl-core)
• Yahoo
• DailyMotion
• Vimeo
• Veoh

All downloaders are implemented using the deferred interface (Q). These calls return streams that can be piped to any writable stream of choice.

Usage

Downloading

Downloading a file is simple. Simply pass the url to the extractor of choice and pipe the response to what ever stream you need.

Classes Exported

• Dailymotion
• Vimeo
• Veoh
• Yahoo
• Youtube

Example

var dlvid = require('dlvid-core').Youtube;

var download = dlvid.download('http://...', { filter: 'mp4', quality: 'highest'});

download.done(function(file){
    file.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('movie.mp4'));
});

Supported Providers

See the current list here

Information

If you'd just like to gather information about the file available, you can do that as well.

var info = dlvid.info('http://...').done(function(data){
  // do whatever you need to do
});

Testing

npm test