videoListTable: 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

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

Arguments

path	the path to save video/audio files.
saveFileList	logic, whether save the file table.
sleepTime	numeric, the time to pause to prevent YouTube blocking. The default is 10 second
maxDownload	integer, the maximal downloading.
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.
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.

Value

a data.frame of video/audio list and write a csv table to 'path'. The columns of this table are 'rowNumber', 'Orders', 'VideoTitles', '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/"

# #### video file table
fileTable = videoListTable(urlSeed = url0, path = folder,
                           saveFileList = TRUE,
                           sleepTime = 5, maxDownload = 200,
                           bothVideoAudio = TRUE)
head(fileTable)

# #### audio file table
fileTable = videoListTable(urlSeed = url0, path = folder,
                           saveFileList = TRUE,
                           sleepTime = 5, maxDownload = 200,
                           priority = c("audio only"),
                           bothVideoAudio = FALSE)
head(fileTable)

## End(Not run)
}

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