Video Downloader

An Alfred Workflow


Short Description

Easily download videos (and/or extracting audio) from various websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion and more...

Last Updated

08 Feb 2016

Compatibility

Yosemite
(10.10)
Mavericks
(10.9)
Mountain Lion
(10.8)
Lion
(10.7)
Snow Leopard
(10.6)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
 

Version

1.1.0
 

Bundle ID

com.cutepilot.video-downloader
 

Author

Video Downloader (Workflow) for Alfred version 1.1.0

Video Downloader is an Alfred workflow written in Bash/Shell for easily downloading videos (and/or extracting audio) from various websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion and more... It uses youtube-dl as the core component. 

Installation

Download and double click Video-Downloader.alfredworkflow. It will be imported into Alfred automatically. Don't forget to run `vd-update` after import.

Usage

  • vd-update — will automatically check and update the core component. Run this first when you import the workflow.
  • vd video-url  — will download the video file to your desktop.
  • vd-audio video-url  — will download the video file, then automatically extract and create an audio file. (The original video file is deleted at the end.)
  • vd-info video-url — will display some video meta-data in Large Type and create an *.info.json* file.
  • vd-help — will display a quick help in Large Type.

Notes

  • Videos, audio and meta-data files) will be downloaded/created on your desktop.
  • When using vd and vd-audio command keywords; hold the CMD key and hit ENTER to automatically play the file after the download (or extraction) is finished.
  • This workflow will display post notifications where appropriate (before/after downloads, on download errors, updates, etc)...

Supported Sites

YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, MetaCafe, Google Video, MTV, SoundCloud, PhotoBucket Videos, DepositFiles, blip.tv, myvideo.de, Google Plus, The Daily Show / Colbert Nation, The Escapist, CollegeHumor, arte.tv, xvideos, infoq, mixcloud, Stanford Open Content, Youku, XNXX, more... See the full (and updated) list [here](http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/documentation.html).

Requirements

  • Python version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.3+
  • FFmpeg (optional, required for audio extraction feature)

Audio Extraction

For this (vd-audio) feature, you should install FFmpeg yourself manually (because of licensing issues).

One way to install FFmpeg is;

  1. Install XCode
  2. Install Command Line Tools for Xcode
  3. Install MacPorts
  4. Install FFmpeg by running the command below in Terminal:

$ sudo port install ffmpeg

You can append these options to enable support for various codecs and FFmpeg features:

+gpl +postproc +lame +theora +libogg +vorbis +xvid +x264 +a52 +faac +faad +dts +nonfree

License

Video Downloader workflow is released to the public domain. (Do whatever you like with it.) FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard and it is licensed under LGPL version 2.1 http://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html  

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