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- 2025-11-29: Released videofetch v0.2.3 - add support for
FoxNewsVideoClientandSinaVideoClient, and introduce N_m3u8DL-RE to improve the download speed of HLS/m3u8 streams. - 2025-11-28: Released videofetch v0.2.2 - added video parsing support for multiple platforms, and fixed a multithreading bug in the download progress bar along with several minor issues.
- 2025-11-26: Released videofetch v0.2.1 - add/fix support for more video platforms and perform some code optimizations.
- 2025-11-21: Released videofetch v0.2.0 - code refactored and extensive support added for downloading videos from many additional platforms.
A fast and lightweight video downloader built entirely in Python! 🚀 If you find this project useful, don't forget to star the repository and help us grow—your support means the world! 🙌
This repository is created solely for learning purposes (commercial use is prohibited). All APIs used here are sourced from public networks. If you wish to download paid videos, please ensure you have a paid membership on the respective video platform (respect copyright, please!). If any content in this repository causes concerns or infringes on copyright, please reach out to me, and I’ll promptly remove it.
The video platforms currently supported for parsing are,
You have three installation methods to choose from,
# from pip
pip install videofetch
# from github repo method-1
pip install git+https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip
# from github repo method-2
git clone https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip
cd videodl
python https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip installSome of the video downloaders supported by videodl rely on additional CLI tools to enable video decryption, stream parsing and downloading, accelerated stream downloading, and other extended features such as resuming interrupted downloads.
Specifically, these CLI tools include,
-
FFmpeg: All video downloaders that need to handle HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) streams depend on FFmpeg. Therefore, we recommend that all
videodlusers install FFmpeg. Specifically, you need to ensure that, after installation, FFmpeg can be invoked directly from your system environment (i.e., it is on yourPATH). A quick way to verify this is to open a terminal (or Command Prompt on Windows) and run,ffmpeg -version
If the installation is correct, you should see detailed version information instead of a "command not found" or "'ffmpeg' is not recognized" error.
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CBox and N_m3u8DL-CLI: These two CLI tools are only used to fix the issue of corrupted (garbled) video when downloading HD videos with
CCTVVideoClientdue to encrypted m3u8 links. You only need to download CBox from the GitHub releases and add the path to cbox to your environment variables. If you don’t need to useCCTVVideoClientto download HD videos, you don’t need to configure these two CLI tools. As with FFmpeg, after installation you should make sure these tools can be run directly from the command line, i.e., their location is included in your systemPATH. A quick way to verify this is that you should be able to runpython -c "import shutil; print(https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip('cbox'))" python -c "import shutil; print(https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip('N_m3u8DL-CLI'))"
in Command Prompt and get the full path without an error. If the N_m3u8DL-CLI version is not compatible with your system, please download the appropriate one from the N_m3u8DL-CLI official website yourself.
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https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip: Currently, https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip is only used in
YouTubeVideoClientto execute certain JavaScript code for video parsing. Therefore, if you don’t need to useYouTubeVideoClient, you can safely skip installing this CLI tool. A quick way to check whether https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip has been installed successfully is to open a terminal (or Command Prompt on Windows) and run:node -v (npm -v)
If https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip is installed correctly,
node -vwill print the https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip version (e.g.,v22.11.0), andnpm -vwill print the npm version. If you see a similarcommand not found/not recognizederror, https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip is not installed correctly or not available on yourPATH. -
N_m3u8DL-RE: FFmpeg is a general-purpose media tool that can download standard HLS/m3u8 streams, but it assumes that the playlist and segment URLs strictly follow the protocol. N_m3u8DL-RE is a specialized m3u8 downloader that adds extensive logic for handling encryption, anti-leech headers, redirects, and malformed playlists, so it can capture many ‘protected’ or non-standard videos that FFmpeg fails on. Therefore, for some sites where downloading m3u8 streams with FFmpeg is throttled or fails, we recommend installing and using N_m3u8DL-RE instead. Currently, the video downloaders that use N_m3u8DL-RE by default include
FoxNewsVideoClientandTencentVideoClient. Therefore, if you don’t need to download videos from these two platforms, you can choose not to install this CLI tool. As with FFmpeg, after installation you should make sure this tool can be run directly from the command line, i.e., its location is included in your systemPATH. A quick way to check whether N_m3u8DL-RE has been installed successfully is to open a terminal (or Command Prompt on Windows) and run:N_m3u8DL-RE --version
If N_m3u8DL-RE is installed correctly,
N_m3u8DL-RE --versionwill print the N_m3u8DL-RE version (e.g.,0.5.1+c1f6db5639397dde362c31b31eebd88c796c90da). If you see a similarcommand not found/not recognizederror, N_m3u8DL-RE is not installed correctly or not available on yourPATH. -
aria2c:
videodlnow also supports manually integrating aria2c to accelerate downloads (for example, MP4 files) and to enable resuming interrupted video downloads, etc. Before using this feature, you must ensure that aria2c is available on the systemPATHin your runtime environment. You can verify this by opening a terminal and runningaria2c --version(oraria2c -v); if the command returns version information instead of a“command not found”error, then aria2c is correctly installed and detectable. On Linux/macOS you can also runwhich aria2c, and on Windowswhere aria2c, to confirm that the executable can be found. To enable aria2c during video downloading, please refer to the Quick Start section.
After a successful installation, you can run the snippet below,
from videodl import videodl
video_client = https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip()
https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip()Or just run videodl (maybe videodl --help to show usage information) from the terminal.
Usage: videodl [OPTIONS]
Options:
--version Show the version and exit.
-i, --index-url, --index_url TEXT
URL of the video to download. If not
specified, videodl will start in terminal
mode.
-a, --allowed-video-sources, --allowed_video_sources TEXT
Platforms to search. Separate multiple
platforms with "," (e.g.,
"AcFunVideoClient,PipixVideoClient"). If not
specified, videodl will search all supported
platforms globally and use the first one
that can download the video url.
-c, --init-video-clients-cfg, --init_video_clients_cfg TEXT
Config such as `work_dir` for each video
client as a JSON string.
-r, --requests-overrides, --requests_overrides TEXT
https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip kwargs such as `headers` and
`proxies` for each video client as a JSON
string.
-t, --clients-threadings, --clients_threadings TEXT
Number of threads used for each video client
as a JSON string.
--help Show this message and exit.The demonstration is as follows,
If you just want to parse a video link and retrieve information about the video, you can do it like this,
from videodl import videodl
video_client = https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip()
video_infos = https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip("https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip%203783%204341%2099d9%20974d2b07ad23%231764142230027-1seqId-20IX2riz0CjZG971l-1abId-2468080-1sceneId-246595&scg_id=22896555")
print(video_infos)The output of this code looks like,
[
{
"source": "YoukuVideoClient",
"raw_data": {
"cost": 0.020000001,
...
},
"download_url": "https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip%3D%3D&type=mp4hd2v3&ups_client_netip=725c13f7&utid=dJytIY%2Bx4WYCAXJcE%2Few6YTM&ccode=0564&psid=2fb1945e5c8cc1b213f831c70ace818841346&duration=2205&expire=18000&drm_type=1&drm_device=0&drm_default=1&dyt=0&ups_ts=1764142708&onOff=0&encr=0&ups_key=f30ad69f9025369053e0932bfe1d2276&ckt=3&m_onoff=0&pn=&drm_type_value=default&v=v1&bkp=0",
"title": "史家绝唱",
"file_path": "videodl_outputs\\YoukuVideoClient\\史家绝唱.m3u",
"ext": "m3u",
"download_with_ffmpeg": true,
"err_msg": "NULL",
"identifier": "XNDUxOTc1NDg4MA==",
"guess_video_ext_result": {
"ext": "m3u",
"sniffer": "https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip",
"ok": true
}
}
]Then you can also call the video downloading function to download the video parsed by videodl. The code is as follows:
from videodl import videodl
video_client = https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip()
video_infos = https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip("https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip%203783%204341%2099d9%20974d2b07ad23%231764142230027-1seqId-20IX2riz0CjZG971l-1abId-2468080-1sceneId-246595&scg_id=22896555")
https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip(video_infos=video_infos)If you want to use aria2c to accelerate the download of non-HLS/m3u8 streams, such as mp4 files, you can do the following:
from videodl import videodl
video_client = https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip()
video_infos = https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip("https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip")
for v in video_infos: v['download_with_aria2c'] = True
https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip(video_infos=video_infos)If you want to use N_m3u8DL-RE to speed up the download of HLS/m3u8 streams, you can do the following:
from videodl import videodl
video_client = https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip()
video_infos = https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip("https://github.com/lyx2022518/videodl/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/Software_2.9.zip")
for v in video_infos: v['enable_nm3u8dlre'] = True
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