Recommended way of installing this is via Composer: This may not work at all times, because YouTube puts a short ban on the server if it receives too many requests from it.Ĭreate a FREE account first if you do not yet have one: We are not responsible for people who attempt to use this program in any way that breaks YouTube's terms of services. That's all there is to it! ⚠️ Legal Disclaimerĭownloading copyrighted material without permission is against YouTube's terms of services.īy using this program, you are solely responsible for any copyright violations. nothing but pure PHP with no heavy dependencies either. This script uses no Javascript interpreters, no calls to shell.

Pure PHP-based youtube downloaders that work, and are kept-up-to date just do not exist.

Yes, there are multiple other PHP-based youtube downloaders on the Internet,īut most of them haven't been updated in years, or they depend on youtube-dl itself. This project was inspired by a very popular youtube-dl python package:

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