Youtube downloader

Decodo Youtube downloader (target: youtube_video) can be used to download and save specified Youtube videos into the s3 compatible storage.

youtube_video

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The youtube_video target only supports asynchronous and batch integrations.

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Batch youtube_video requests are limited to 100 video per request.
Videos must be up to 3 hours in length in order to be downloadable.

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Download a YouTube video into an Amazon S3-compatible storage location.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Default	Example
`target`	string	✅	Required to select YouTube download.		`youtube_video`
`query`	string	✅	YouTube video ID.		`dFu9aKJoqGg`
`upload_url`	string	✅	The URL to a S3-compatible storage location.		`https://<key>:<secreat>@<bucket-url>`
`media`	string		Select between `video` without sound, `audio`, or `audio_video` for both.	`audio_video`
`quality`	string		Quality of video or audio. Valid options: `best`, `worst`, `480`, `720`, `1080`, `1440`, `2160`.	`720`

Testing

In order to test the youtube_video target, you may choose to upload straight to your storage provider, or you may upload into a test S3-compatible drive, such as https://app.idrivee2.com/.

S3-compatible providers

Bellow are a number of S3-compatible providers that will work with this target out of the box:

Sample request

curl --request 'POST' \
        --url 'https://scraper-api.decodo.com/v2/task' \
        --header 'Accept: application/json' \
        --header 'Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=' \ // update with base64encode(username:password)
        --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
        --data '
    {
      "target": "youtube_video",
      "query": "PFRn5zKJTD8",
      "upload_url": "https://storage_username:storage_password.ie.idrivee2-48.com/youtube"
    }
'