YoutubeExtractor

YoutubeExtractor

Overview

YoutubeExtractor is a library for .NET, written in C#, that allows to download videos from YouTube and/or extract their audio track (audio extraction currently only for flash videos).

Target platforms

• .NET Framework 3.5 and higher
• Windows Phone 8
• WinRT
• Xamarin.Android
• Xamarin.iOS

Note that Windows Phone 8, WinRT, Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS only support the extraction of the download URLs

NuGet

YoutubeExtractor at NuGet

Install-Package YoutubeExtractor

License

YoutubeExtractor has two licenses;

The YouTube URL-extraction code is licensed under the MIT License

The audio extraction code that is originally from FlvExtract is licenced under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)

Files that are GPLv2 licensed are explicitly marked with the GPLv2 header at the top of the file. All other files are implicitly MIT licensed.

Credits

• FlvExtract for extracting MP3 and AAC audio tracks out of flash files.

Example code

Get the download URLs

// Our test youtube link
string link = "insert youtube link";

/*
 * Get the available video formats.
 * We'll work with them in the video and audio download examples.
 */
IEnumerable videoInfos = DownloadUrlResolver.GetDownloadUrls(link);

Download the video

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Download the audio track

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