Locally deployed Flask App (synchronous) for downloading audio files, video files, playlists of both video and audio, from a valid YouTube URL at the best quality out there.
Tested and developed on Ubuntu GNOME 18.04 LTS with Anaconda's Python distro, 3.6.5
youtube-dl- Used to download the file from the internet.ffmpeg- Used for postprocess data, i.e., to convert file from .webm to .mp3 format.
- flask - A micro framework for backend.
- bs4 - For parsing the html document.
- lxml - helps BeautifulSoup while parsing, instead of the defualt slow html parser.
if you don't have them,
pip install flask bs4 lxml
for more instructions on how to install youtube-dl and ffmpeg on your machine visit the YDL repository.
