Download videos using youtube-dl and Termux

[anuraag]

I got inspired by a recent Tasker project (which was only limited for Youtube only) and created this flow.
This one will work with all sites supported by youtube-dl.

Prerequisites:
Termux
Termux:Task
Termux:API
All of them available from F-Droid freely.

Setup:

• Install all above mentioned apps.
• Copy youtube-dl.sh to root of your internal storage (/storage/emulated/0)
• Open Termux
• Run following command one by one (else you may run into error)

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  termux-setup-storage
  mkdir -p .termux/tasker 
  cp /storage/emulated/0/youtube-dl.sh ~/.termux/tasker/
  chmod 755 ~/.termux/tasker/youtube-dl.sh
  mkdir /data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/shared/youtube-dl

• Import flow to Automagic
• Execute "Install/update youtube-dl" flow. It will install python, ffmpeg and youtube-dl in Termux. You can use this flow to update them whenever new builds of youtube-dl releases.

I have set "Send/Share Intent Received" as trigger. So when a link is shared to Automagic's Send/Share Intent then flow will run.
Video/audio will be saved to "/storage/emulated/0/youtube-dl"
When you select a format which have only video container then youtube-dl will download best available audio for that video and merge then with ffmpeg.

Flow and youtube-dl.sh
http://automagic4android.com/forum/down ... hp?id=1892

[ariloc]

Just tried and works great! I will totally keep it for whenever I need fo download a YouTube video. Maybe a separate app weighs less, but this is much cooler
I don't understand much of all that it does but I think it opens up the possibilities of what you can do with AM if you know what you do.

[anuraag]

Updated flow to
Prefer m4a audio if video format is mp4, webm audio if video format is webm
Show log after download
Added format to file name

To update

• Import flow to Automagic
• Copy youtube-dl.sh to root of your internal storage (/storage/emulated/0)
• Open Termux
• Run following command

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  cp /storage/emulated/0/youtube-dl.sh ~/.termux/tasker/
  chmod 755 ~/.termux/tasker/youtube-dl.sh
  

[anuraag]

Updated flow to
Fix not getting json info if json length is large
Added support for downloading Playlists.

To update

• Import flow to Automagic
• Copy youtube-dl.sh to root of your internal storage (/storage/emulated/0)
• Open Termux
• Run following command

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  cp /storage/emulated/0/youtube-dl.sh ~/.termux/tasker/
  chmod 755 ~/.termux/tasker/youtube-dl.sh
  

[anuraag]

Another update
Replaced Init Variable Text File with java code to read json files larger than 1mb.
Fixed loop while downloading Playlist.
Added atomicparsley package to termux.