👾 dl is a fast, simple and clean video downloader built with Go.
Installation
Prerequisites
The following dependencies are required and must be installed separately.
Note: FFmpeg does not affect the download, only affects the final file merge.
Install via go get
To install dl, use go get
, or download the binary file from Releases page.
$ go get github.com/ellisonleao/dl
Homebrew (macOS only)
For macOS users, you can install dl
via:
$ brew install dl
Arch Linux
For Arch Users AUR package is available.
Void Linux
For Void linux users, you can install dl
via:
$ xbps-install -S dl
Scoop on Windows
$ scoop install dl
$ choco install dl
Getting Started
Usage:
dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
Download a video
$ dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Site: YouTube youtube.com
Title: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Video)
Type: video
Stream:
[248] -------------------
Quality: 1080p video/webm; codecs="vp9"
Size: 63.93 MiB (67038963 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f 248 ...
41.88 MiB / 63.93 MiB [=================>-------------] 65.51% 4.22 MiB/s 00m05s
Note: wrap the URL in quotation marks if it contains special characters. (thanks @tonyxyl for pointing this out)
$ dl 'https://...'
The -i
option displays all available quality of video without downloading.
$ dl -i https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Site: YouTube youtube.com
Title: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Video)
Type: video
Streams: # All available quality
[248] -------------------
Quality: 1080p video/webm; codecs="vp9"
Size: 49.29 MiB (51687554 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f 248 ...
[137] -------------------
Quality: 1080p video/mp4; codecs="avc1.640028"
Size: 43.45 MiB (45564306 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f 137 ...
[398] -------------------
Quality: 720p video/mp4; codecs="av01.0.05M.08"
Size: 37.12 MiB (38926432 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f 398 ...
[136] -------------------
Quality: 720p video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d401f"
Size: 31.34 MiB (32867324 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f 136 ...
[247] -------------------
Quality: 720p video/webm; codecs="vp9"
Size: 31.03 MiB (32536181 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f 247 ...
Use dl -f stream "URL"
to download a specific stream listed in the output of -i
option.
Download anything else
If dl is provided the URL of a specific resource, then it will be downloaded directly:
$ dl https://img9.bcyimg.com/drawer/15294/post/1799t/1f5a87801a0711e898b12b640777720f.jpg
dl doesn't support this URL right now, but it will try to download it directly
Site: Universal
Title: 1f5a87801a0711e898b12b640777720f
Type: image/jpeg
Stream:
[default] -------------------
Size: 1.00 MiB (1051042 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f default "URL"
1.00 MiB / 1.00 MiB [===================================] 100.00% 1.21 MiB/s 0s
Download playlist
The -p
option downloads an entire playlist instead of a single video.
$ dl -i -p https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ep198061
Site: 哔哩哔哩 bilibili.com
Title: Doctor X 第四季:第一集
Type: video
Streams: # All available quality
[default] -------------------
Quality: 高清 1080P
Size: 845.66 MiB (886738354 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f default "URL"
Site: 哔哩哔哩 bilibili.com
Title: Doctor X 第四季:第二集
Type: video
Streams: # All available quality
[default] -------------------
Quality: 高清 1080P
Size: 930.71 MiB (975919195 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f default "URL"
......
You can use the -start
, -end
or -items
option to specify the download range of the list:
-start
Playlist video to start at (default 1)
-end
Playlist video to end at
-items
Playlist video items to download. Separated by commas like: 1,5,6,8-10
For bilibili playlists only:
-eto
File name of each bilibili episode doesn't include the playlist title
You can also download multiple URLs at once:
$ dl -i https://www.bilibili.com/video/av21877586 https://www.bilibili.com/video/av21990740
Site: 哔哩哔哩 bilibili.com
Title: 【莓机会了】甜到虐哭的13集单集MAD「我现在什么都不想干,更不想看14集」
Type: video
Streams: # All available quality
[default] -------------------
Quality: 高清 1080P
Size: 51.88 MiB (54403767 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f default "URL"
Site: 哔哩哔哩 bilibili.com
Title: 【莓救了】甜到虐哭!!!国家队单集MAD-当熟悉的bgm响起,眼泪从脸颊滑下
Type: video
Streams: # All available quality
[default] -------------------
Quality: 高清 1080P
Size: 77.63 MiB (81404093 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f default "URL"
These URLs will be downloaded one by one.
You can also use the -F
option to read URLs from file:
$ dl -F ~/Desktop/u.txt
Site: 微博 weibo.com
Title: 在Google,我们设计什么? via@阑夕
Type: video
Stream:
[default] -------------------
Size: 19.19 MiB (20118196 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f default "URL"
19.19 MiB / 19.19 MiB [=================================] 100.00% 9.69 MiB/s 1s
......
You can use the -start
, -end
or -items
option to specify the download range of the list:
-start
File line to start at (default 1)
-end
File line to end at
-items
File lines to download. Separated by commas like: 1,5,6,8-10
Resume a download
Ctrl+C interrupts a download.
A temporary .download
file is kept in the output directory. If dl
is ran with the same arguments, then the download progress will resume from the last session.
Auto retry
dl will auto retry when the download failed, you can specify the retry times by -retry
option (default is 100).
Cookies
Cookies can be provided to dl
with the -c
option if they are required for accessing the video.
Cookies can be the following format or Netscape Cookie format:
name=value; name2=value2; ...
Cookies can be a string or a text file, supply cookies in one of the two following ways.
As a string:
$ dl -c "name=value; name2=value2" https://www.bilibili.com/video/av20203945
As a text file:
$ dl -c cookies.txt https://www.bilibili.com/video/av20203945
Proxy
You can set the HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy using environment variables:
$ HTTP_PROXY="http://127.0.0.1:1087/" dl -i https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnbch2osEeo
$ HTTP_PROXY="socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/" dl -i https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnbch2osEeo
Multi-Thread
Use -n
option to set the number of download threads(default is 10, only works for multiple-parts video).
Special Tips: Use too many threads in mgtv download will cause HTTP 403 error, we recommend setting the number of threads to 1.
Use specified Referrer
A Referrer can be used for the request with the -r
option:
$ dl -r https://www.bilibili.com/video/av20383055/ http://cn-scnc1-dx.acgvideo.com/...
...
Specify the output path and name
The -o
option sets the path, and -O
option sets the name of the downloaded file:
$ dl -o ../ -O "hello" https://...
Debug Mode
The -d
option outputs network request messages:
$ dl -i -d http://www.bilibili.com/video/av20088587
URL: http://www.bilibili.com/video/av20088587
Method: GET
Headers: http.Header{
"Referer": {"http://www.bilibili.com/video/av20088587"},
"Accept": {"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"},
"Accept-Charset": {"UTF-8,*;q=0.5"},
"Accept-Encoding": {"gzip,deflate,sdch"},
"Accept-Language": {"en-US,en;q=0.8"},
"User-Agent": {"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.146 Safari/537.36"},
}
Status Code: 200
URL: https://interface.bilibili.com/v2/playurl?appkey=84956560bc028eb7&cid=32782944&otype=json&qn=116&quality=116&type=&sign=fb2e3f261fec398652f96d358517e535
Method: GET
Headers: http.Header{
"Accept-Charset": {"UTF-8,*;q=0.5"},
"Accept-Encoding": {"gzip,deflate,sdch"},
"Accept-Language": {"en-US,en;q=0.8"},
"User-Agent": {"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.146 Safari/537.36"},
"Referer": {"https://interface.bilibili.com/v2/playurl?appkey=84956560bc028eb7&cid=32782944&otype=json&qn=116&quality=116&type=&sign=fb2e3f261fec398652f96d358517e535"},
"Accept": {"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"},
}
Status Code: 200
Site: 哔哩哔哩 bilibili.com
Title: 燃油动力的遥控奥迪R8跑赛道
Type: video
Streams: # All available quality
[default] -------------------
Quality: 高清 1080P
Size: 64.38 MiB (67504795 Bytes)
# download with: dl -f default "URL"
The -j
option will print the extracted data in JSON format.
$ dl -j https://www.bilibili.com/video/av20203945
{
"site": "哔哩哔哩 bilibili.com",
"title": "【2018拜年祭单品】相遇day by day",
"type": "video",
"streams": {
"15": {
"urls": [
{
"url": "...",
"size": 18355205,
"ext": "flv"
}
],
"quality": "流畅 360P",
"size": 18355205
},
"32": {
"urls": [
{
"url": "...",
"size": 40058632,
"ext": "flv"
}
],
"quality": "清晰 480P",
"size": 40058632
},
"64": {
"urls": [
{
"url": "...",
"size": 82691087,
"ext": "flv"
}
],
"quality": "高清 720P",
"size": 82691087
},
"80": {
"urls": [
{
"url": "...",
"size": 121735559,
"ext": "flv"
}
],
"quality": "高清 1080P",
"size": 121735559
}
}
}
Options
-i Information only
-F string
URLs file path
-d Debug mode
-j Print extracted data
-v Show version
Download:
-f string
Select specific stream to download
-p Download playlist
-n int
The number of download thread (only works for multiple-parts video) (default 10)
-c string
Cookie
-r string
Use specified Referrer
-cs int
HTTP chunk size for downloading (in MB) (default 0)
Network:
-retry int
How many times to retry when the download failed (default 10)
Playlist:
-start int
Playlist video to start at (default 1)
-end int
Playlist video to end at
-items string
Playlist video items to download. Separated by commas like: 1,5,6,8-10
Filesystem:
-o string
Specify the output path
-O string
Specify the output file name
Subtitle:
-C Download captions
aria2:
Note: If you use aria2 to download, you need to merge the multi-part videos yourself.
-aria2
Use Aria2 RPC to download
-aria2addr string
Aria2 Address (default "localhost:6800")
-aria2method string
Aria2 Method (default "http")
-aria2token string
Aria2 RPC Token
Supported Sites
Contributing
dl is an open source project and built on the top of open-source projects. If you are interested, then you are welcome to contribute. Let's make dl better, together. 💪
Check out the Contributing Guide to get started.
Special thanks to @Yasujizr who designed the amazing logo!
Authors
Code originally with ❤️ by iawia002 and lovely contributors
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License
MIT
Copyright (c) 2018-present, ellisonleao