{ lib , buildPythonPackage , fetchPypi , brotli , certifi , ffmpeg , rtmpdump , atomicparsley , pycryptodomex , websockets , mutagen , secretstorage , atomicparsleySupport ? true , ffmpegSupport ? true , rtmpSupport ? true , withAlias ? false # Provides bin/youtube-dl for backcompat , update-python-libraries }: buildPythonPackage rec { pname = "yt-dlp"; # The websites yt-dlp deals with are a very moving target. That means that # downloads break constantly. Because of that, updates should always be backported # to the latest stable release. version = "2023.3.4"; src = fetchPypi { inherit pname version; sha256 = "sha256-Jl1dqXp2wV19mkCIpnt4rNXc9vjP2CV8UvWB/5lv9RU="; }; propagatedBuildInputs = [ brotli certifi mutagen pycryptodomex secretstorage # "optional", as in not in requirements.txt, needed for `--cookies-from-browser` websockets ]; # Ensure these utilities are available in $PATH: # - ffmpeg: post-processing & transcoding support # - rtmpdump: download files over RTMP # - atomicparsley: embedding thumbnails makeWrapperArgs = let packagesToBinPath = [] ++ lib.optional atomicparsleySupport atomicparsley ++ lib.optional ffmpegSupport ffmpeg ++ lib.optional rtmpSupport rtmpdump; in lib.optionalString (packagesToBinPath != []) [ ''--prefix PATH : "${lib.makeBinPath packagesToBinPath}"'' ]; setupPyBuildFlags = [ "build_lazy_extractors" ]; # Requires network doCheck = false; postInstall = lib.optionalString withAlias '' ln -s "$out/bin/yt-dlp" "$out/bin/youtube-dl" ''; passthru.updateScript = [ update-python-libraries (toString ./.) ]; meta = with lib; { homepage = "https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/"; description = "Command-line tool to download videos from YouTube.com and other sites (youtube-dl fork)"; longDescription = '' yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. youtube-dl is a small, Python-based command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. youtube-dl is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. ''; license = licenses.unlicense; maintainers = with maintainers; [ mkg20001 SuperSandro2000 marsam ]; }; }