videoListDownload: Downloading by an URL seed

In paodan/youtubeDownloader: Download YouTube videos and audios

Description

Download YouTube videos/audios by providing an URL seed, which is any URL in a video list.

Usage

videoListDownload(
  urlSeed,
  path = "./",
  saveFileList = TRUE,
  sleepTime = 10,
  maxDownload = 1000,
  priority = c("audio only", "best", "mp4"),
  bothVideoAudio = TRUE,
  webmConvert = NULL
)

Arguments

path	the path to save video/audio files.
sleepTime	numeric, the time to pause to prevent YouTube blocking. The default is 10 second
priority	the file format to download. The option can be any one (or combination) of "mp4", "best", "audio only", "mp3", "webm", the default is c("mp4", "best", "audio only"), which means the downloader will look for mp4 file first, if this file does not exist, then the downloader will look for the best file marked by YouTube, then look for only audio file.
bothVideoAudio	logic, whether download both audio and video, it should be FALSE if only downloading audio or video. The default is TRUE.
webmConvert	either NULL (not convert), "mp4" or "mp3", convert webm file format to "mp4" or "mp3". The default is NULL.
fileList	the file name of video/audio list table. This table is a csv file generated by videoListDownload function. The columns of this table are 'rowNames', 'data.index', 'data.video.title', 'fileName', and 'URL', in which 'URL' is most important information.

Examples

{
## Not run: 
url0 = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DejHQYAGb7Q&list=PLkDaE6sCZn6F6wUI9tvS_Gw1vaFAx6rd6"
# the folder to save downloaded files
folder = "/data/surfDrive/TutorialVideos/"

# #### download video
newFolder = videoListDownload(urlSeed = url0, path = folder,
                              saveFileList = TRUE,
                              sleepTime = 5, maxDownload = 200,
                              bothVideoAudio = TRUE)

# #### download audio
newFolder = videoListDownload(urlSeed = url0, path = folder,
                               saveFileList = TRUE,
                               sleepTime = 5, maxDownload = 200,
                               priority = c("audio only"),
                               bothVideoAudio = FALSE,
                               webmConvert = "mp3")

## End(Not run)
}

paodan/youtubeDownloader documentation built on Nov. 15, 2020, 9:48 p.m.