🥔 Yam

A YouTube video downloader

Yam is a web server that downloads YouTube videos. It can also download videos as audio files.

Starting the server

Prerequisites for running a Yam server:

• Deno 1.36.2 or higher
• FFmpeg 6.0 or higher

To start the server, clone and start the repository:

git clone https://github.com/interrrp/yam
cd yam
deno task start

Usage - Bookmarks

Yam can be used as bookmarklets. To use Yam as a bookmarklet, create new bookmarks and set their URLs to the following:

Download video

javascript:
window.location.href = window.location.href.replace(
  "https://www.youtube.com/watch",
  "http://localhost:4050/video",
);

Download audio

javascript:
window.location.href = window.location.href.replace(
  "https://www.youtube.com/watch",
  "http://localhost:4050/audio",
);

Usage - API

Yam can also be used as an API. To use Yam as an API, send a GET request to the following endpoints:

Download video

http://localhost:4050/video?v=<YouTube video ID>

Download audio

http://localhost:4050/audio?v=<YouTube video ID>

License

Yam is licensed under GPL-3.0.