ytdlbot

YouTube Download Bot🚀

Download videos from YouTube and other platforms through a Telegram Bot

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READ FAQ FIRST IF YOU ENCOUNTER ANY ISSUES.

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Can't deploy? Fork to your personal account and deploy it there!

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Usage

https://t.me/benny_ytdlbot

Send link directly to the bot. Any Websites supported by youtube-dl will also work.

Limitations of my bot

I don't have unlimited servers and bandwidth, so I have to make some restrictions.

• 10 GiB one-way traffic per 24 hours for each user
• maximum 5 minutes streaming conversion support
• maximum 3 subscriptions

You can choose to become 'VIP' if you really need large traffic. And also, you could always deploy your own bot.

Features

1. fast download and upload.
2. ads free
3. support progress bar
4. audio conversion
5. playlist support
6. VIP support
7. support different video resolutions
8. support sending as file or streaming as video
9. supports celery worker distribution - faster than before.
10. subscriptions to YouTube Channels
11. cache mechanism - download once for the same video.

How to deploy?

You can deploy this bot on any platform that supports Python.

Heroku

Use the button above! It should work like a magic but with limited functionalities.

Run natively on your machine

1. clone code
2. install ffmpeg
3. install Python 3.6+
4. pip3 install -r requirements.txt
5. set environment variables TOKEN, APP_ID and APP_HASH, and more if you like.
6. python3 ytdl_bot.py

Docker

Some functions, such as VIP, ping will be disabled.

docker run -e APP_ID=111 -e APP_HASH=111 -e TOKEN=370FXI bennythink/ytdlbot

Complete deployment guide for docker-compose

• contains every functionality
• compatible with amd64, arm64 and armv7l

1. get docker-compose.yml

Download docker-compose.yml file to a directory

2. create data directory

mkdir data
mkdir env

3. configuration

3.1. set environment variables

vim env/ytdl.env

you can configure all the following environment variables:

• PYRO_WORKERS: number of workers for pyrogram, default is 100

• WORKERS: workers count for celery

• APP_ID: REQUIRED, get it from https://core.telegram.org/

• APP_HASH: REQUIRED

• TOKEN: REQUIRED

• REDIS: REQUIRED if you need VIP mode and cache ⚠️ Don't publish your redis server on the internet. ⚠️

• OWNER: owner username

• QUOTA: quota in bytes

• EX: quota expire time

• MULTIPLY: vip quota comparing to normal quota

• USD2CNY: exchange rate

• VIP: VIP mode, default: disable

• AFD_LINK

• COFFEE_LINK

• COFFEE_TOKEN

• AFD_TOKEN

• AFD_USER_ID

• AUTHORIZED_USER: users that could use this bot, user_id, separated with ,

• REQUIRED_MEMBERSHIP: group or channel username, user must join this group to use the bot. Could be use with above AUTHORIZED_USER

• ENABLE_CELERY: Distribution mode, default: disable. You'll can setup workers in different locations.

• MYSQL_HOST: you'll have to setup MySQL if you enable VIP mode

• MYSQL_USER

• MYSQL_PASS

• GOOGLE_API_KEY: YouTube API key, required for YouTube video subscription.

• AUDIO_FORMAT: audio format, default is m4a. You can set to any known and supported format for ffmpeg. For example,mp3, flac, etc. ⚠️ m4a is the fastest. Other formats may affect performance.

• ARCHIVE_ID: group or channel id/username. All downloads will send to this group first and then forward to end user. Inline button will be lost during the forwarding.

3.2 Set up init data

If you only need basic functionality, you can skip this step.

3.2.1 Create MySQL db

Required for VIP, settings, YouTube subscription.

docker-compose up -d
docker-compose exec mysql bash

mysql -u root -p

> create database ytdl;

3.2.2 Setup flower db in ytdlbot/ytdlbot/data

Required if you enable celery and want to monitor the workers.

{} ~ python3
Python 3.9.9 (main, Nov 21 2021, 03:22:47)
[Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.29)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import dbm;dbm.open("flower","n");exit()

3.2.3 Setup instagram cookies

Required if you want to support instagram.

You can use this extension Get cookies.txt to get instagram cookies

vim  data/instagram.com_cookies.txt
# paste your cookies

3.3 Tidy docker-compose.yml

In flower service section, you may want to change your basic authentication username password and publish port.

You can also limit CPU and RAM usage by adding an `deploy' key:

    deploy:
      resources:
        limits:
          cpus: '0.5'
          memory: 1500M

Be sure to use --compatibility when deploying.

4. run

4.1. standalone mode

If you only want to run the mode without any celery worker and VIP mode, you can just start ytdl service

docker-compose up -d ytdl

4.2 VIP mode

You'll have to start MySQL and redis to support VIP mode, subscription and settings.

docker-compose up -d mysql redis ytdl

4.3 Celery worker mode

Firstly, set ENABLE_CELERY to true. And then, on one machine:

docker-compose up -d

On the other machine:

docker-compose -f worker.yml up -d

⚠️ Bear in mind don't publish redis directly on the internet! You can use WireGuard to wrap it up.

Command

start - Let's start
about - What's this bot?
ping - Bot running status
help - Help
ytdl - Download video in group
vip - Join VIP
terms - View Terms of Service
settings - Set your preference
direct - Download file directly
sub - Subscribe to YouTube Channel
unsub - Unsubscribe from YouTube Channel
sub_count - Check subscription status, owner only.
uncache - Delete cache for this link

Test data

Test video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc

Test Playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1Hdq7xjQCJxQnGc05gS4wzHWccvEJy0w

Test m3u8

https://dmesg.app/m3u8/prog_index.m3u8

test twitter

https://twitter.com/nitori_sayaka/status/1526199729864200192 https://twitter.com/BennyThinks/status/1475836588542341124

Donation

• Buy me a coffee
• Afdian

License

Apache License 2.0