libytdl

NOTE: libytdl and its documentation is still very much incomplete. Please be patient or help by contributing!

A C library for downloading youtube videos.

libytdl aims to provide a simple embeddable method for downloading and consuming youtube videos in your own applications.

What’s includes?

libytdl is split into 3 seperate libraries under the same prefix

• libytdlcore - the core library
  • Video info extraction
  • Format url deciphering
  • HTTP request generation
  • Dash Manifest parser
• libytdlhttp - the http client library
  • Video downloader
• libytdlav - video and audio file handling library
  • matroska (mkv) remuxer to merge audio and video streams

Additionally a cli is being implemented to use the library called ytdlcli.

Features

• Small and embeddable
• Simple API

Dependencies

Core dependencies (libytdlcore)

External

• Libxml2

Included (Packaged)

• QuickJS
• yyjson

Http dependencies (libytdlhttp)

External

• OpenSSL
• libuv

Included (submodules)

• llhttp

AV dependencies (libytdlav)

External

• FFmpeg (libavformat & libavcodec)