1. Go to this page and download the library: Download cawa0505/youtube-dl-php library. Choose the download type require.
2. Extract the ZIP file and open the index.php.
3. Add this code to the index.php.
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');
/* Start to develop here. Best regards https://php-download.com/ */
cawa0505 / youtube-dl-php example snippets
YoutubeDl\YoutubeDl;
use YoutubeDl\Exception\CopyrightException;
use YoutubeDl\Exception\NotFoundException;
use YoutubeDl\Exception\PrivateVideoException;
$dl = new YoutubeDl([
'continue' => true, // force resume of partially downloaded files. By default, youtube-dl will resume downloads if possible.
'format' => 'bestvideo',
]);
// For more options go to https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#user-content-options
$dl->setDownloadPath('/home/user/downloads');
// Enable debugging
/*$dl->debug(function ($type, $buffer) {
if (\Symfony\Component\Process\Process::ERR === $type) {
echo 'ERR > ' . $buffer;
} else {
echo 'OUT > ' . $buffer;
}
});*/
try {
$video = $dl->download('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c');
echo $video->getTitle(); // Will return Phonebloks
// $video->getFile(); // \SplFileInfo instance of downloaded file
} catch (NotFoundException $e) {
// Video not found
} catch (PrivateVideoException $e) {
// Video is private
} catch (CopyrightException $e) {
// The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement
} catch (\Exception $e) {
// Failed to download
}