**NOTICE (30 May 2022): Support for Python 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 will eventually be dropped. ([see details here](https://github.com/soimort/you-get/wiki/TLS-1.3-post-handshake-authentication-(PHA)))**
**NOTICE (8 Mar 2019): Read [this](https://github.com/soimort/you-get/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md) if you are looking for the conventional "Issues" tab.**
[You-Get](https://you-get.org/) is a tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web, in case there is no other handy way to do it.
* You enjoyed something on the Internet, and just want to download them for your own pleasure.
* You watch your favorite videos online from your computer, but you are prohibited from saving them. You feel that you have no control over your own computer. (And it's not how an open Web is supposed to work.)
* You want to get rid of any closed-source technology or proprietary JavaScript code, and disallow things like Flash running on your computer.
* You are an adherent of hacker culture and free software.
* Download videos / audios from popular websites such as YouTube, Youku, Niconico, and a bunch more. (See the [full list of supported sites](#supported-sites))
* Stream an online video in your media player. No web browser, no more ads.
* Download images (of interest) by scraping a web page.
The official release of `you-get` is distributed on [PyPI](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/you-get), and can be installed easily from a PyPI mirror via the [pip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_\(package_manager\)) package manager. Note that you must use the Python 3 version of `pip`:
You may either download the [stable](https://github.com/soimort/you-get/archive/master.zip) (identical with the latest release on PyPI) or the [develop](https://github.com/soimort/you-get/archive/develop.zip) (more hotfixes, unstable features) branch of `you-get`. Unzip it, and put the directory containing the `you-get` script into your `PATH`.
Completion definitions for Bash, Fish and Zsh can be found in [`contrib/completion`](https://github.com/soimort/you-get/tree/develop/contrib/completion). Please consult your shell's manual for how to take advantage of them.
* At this point, format selection has not been generally implemented for most of our supported sites; in that case, the default format to download is the one with the highest quality.
*`ffmpeg` is a required dependency, for downloading and joining videos streamed in multiple parts (e.g. on some sites like Youku), and for YouTube videos of 1080p or high resolution.
* If you don't want `you-get` to join video parts after downloading them, use the `--no-merge`/`-n` option.
* This feature is an experimental one and far from perfect. It works best on scraping large-sized images from popular websites like Tumblr and Blogger, but there is really no universal pattern that can apply to any site on the Internet.
You can pass literally anything to `you-get`. If it isn't a valid URL, `you-get` will do a Google search and download the most relevant video for you. (It might not be exactly the thing you wish to see, but still very likely.)
A temporary `.download` file is kept in the output directory. Next time you run `you-get` with the same arguments, the download progress will resume from the last session. In case the file is completely downloaded (the temporary `.download` extension is gone), `you-get` will just skip the download.
To enforce re-downloading, use the `--force`/`-f` option. (**Warning:** doing so will overwrite any existing file or temporary file with the same name!)
* These options are helpful if you encounter problems with the default video titles, which may contain special characters that do not play well with your current shell / operating system / filesystem.
* These options are also helpful if you write a script to batch download files and put them into designated folders with designated names.
However, the system proxy setting (i.e. the environment variable `http_proxy`) is applied by default. To disable any proxy, use the `--no-proxy` option.
**Tips:**
* If you need to use proxies a lot (in case your network is blocking certain sites), you might want to use `you-get` with [proxychains](https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng) and set `alias you-get="proxychains -q you-get"` (in Bash).
* For some websites (e.g. Youku), if you need access to some videos that are only available in mainland China, there is an option of using a specific proxy to extract video information from the site: `--extractor-proxy`/`-y`.
* It is possible to use the `-p` option to start another download manager, e.g., `you-get -p uget-gtk 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw'`, though they may not play together very well.
### Load cookies
Not all videos are publicly available to anyone. If you need to log in your account to access something (e.g., a private video), it would be unavoidable to feed the browser cookies to `you-get` via the `--cookies`/`-c` option.
**Note:**
* As of now, we are supporting two formats of browser cookies: Mozilla `cookies.sqlite` and Netscape `cookies.txt`.
### Reuse extracted data
Use `--url`/`-u` to get a list of downloadable resource URLs extracted from the page. Use `--json` to get an abstract of extracted data in the JSON format.
**Warning:**
* For the time being, this feature has **NOT** been stabilized and the JSON schema may have breaking changes in the future.
Check if it's already a known problem on <https://github.com/soimort/you-get/wiki/Known-Bugs>. If not, follow the guidelines on [how to report an issue](https://github.com/soimort/you-get/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md).
You can reach us on the Gitter channel [#soimort/you-get](https://gitter.im/soimort/you-get) (here's how you [set up your IRC client](http://irc.gitter.im) for Gitter). If you have a quick question regarding `you-get`, ask it there.
If you are seeking to report an issue or contribute, please make sure to read [the guidelines](https://github.com/soimort/you-get/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md) first.
This software is distributed under the [MIT license](https://raw.github.com/soimort/you-get/master/LICENSE.txt).
In particular, please be aware that
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
Translated to human words:
*In case your use of the software forms the basis of copyright infringement, or you use the software for any other illegal purposes, the authors cannot take any responsibility for you.*
We only ship the code here, and how you are going to use it is left to your own discretion.
