iopho-getting-videos — Cross-Platform Video/Audio/Subtitle Downloader

Download video, audio, subtitles, thumbnails, and metadata from 1800+ platforms with intelligent tool routing and fallback chains.

Prerequisites

Check what's available:

!which yt-dlp 2>/dev/null && echo "yt-dlp: ✓ (primary — covers 1800+ sites)" || echo "yt-dlp: ✗ — install: pip install yt-dlp"

!which ffmpeg 2>/dev/null && echo "ffmpeg: ✓ (needed for merging/conversion)" || echo "ffmpeg: ✗ — install: brew install ffmpeg"

!python3 -c "from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi; print('youtube-transcript-api: ✓ (fast YouTube transcripts)')" 2>/dev/null || echo "youtube-transcript-api: ✗ (optional) — install: pip install youtube-transcript-api"

!which BBDown 2>/dev/null && echo "BBDown: ✓ (Bilibili specialist)" || echo "BBDown: ✗ (optional for Bilibili) — install: dotnet tool install -g BBDown"

!which lux 2>/dev/null && echo "lux: ✓ (Chinese platforms)" || echo "lux: ✗ (optional) — install: go install github.com/iawia002/lux@latest"

Minimum: yt-dlp + ffmpeg covers 95% of use cases.