{ lib, fetchurl, fetchpatch, buildPythonPackage , zip, ffmpeg, rtmpdump, phantomjs2, atomicparsley, pycryptodome, pandoc # Pandoc is required to build the package's man page. Release tarballs contain a # formatted man page already, though, it will still be installed. We keep the # manpage argument in place in case someone wants to use this derivation to # build a Git version of the tool that doesn't have the formatted man page # included. , generateManPage ? false , ffmpegSupport ? true , rtmpSupport ? true , phantomjsSupport ? false , hlsEncryptedSupport ? true , installShellFiles, makeWrapper }: buildPythonPackage rec { pname = "youtube-dl"; # The websites youtube-dl 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 = "2021.06.06"; src = fetchurl { url = "https://yt-dl.org/downloads/${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz"; sha256 = "1hqan9h55x9gfdakw554vic68w9gpvhblchwxlw265zxp56hxjrw"; }; patches = [ # Fixes throttling on youtube.com. Without the patch downloads are capped at # about 80KiB/s. See, e.g., # # https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326 # # The patch comes from PR https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30188 (fetchpatch { name = "fix-youtube-dl-speed.patch"; url = "https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30188.patch"; sha256 = "15liban37ina2y4bnykfdywdy4rbkfff2r6vd0kqn2k7rfkcczyz"; }) ]; nativeBuildInputs = [ installShellFiles makeWrapper ]; buildInputs = [ zip ] ++ lib.optional generateManPage pandoc; propagatedBuildInputs = lib.optional hlsEncryptedSupport pycryptodome; # Ensure these utilities are available in $PATH: # - ffmpeg: post-processing & transcoding support # - rtmpdump: download files over RTMP # - atomicparsley: embedding thumbnails makeWrapperArgs = let packagesToBinPath = [ atomicparsley ] ++ lib.optional ffmpegSupport ffmpeg ++ lib.optional rtmpSupport rtmpdump ++ lib.optional phantomjsSupport phantomjs2; in [ ''--prefix PATH : "${lib.makeBinPath packagesToBinPath}"'' ]; setupPyBuildFlags = [ "build_lazy_extractors" ]; postInstall = '' installShellCompletion youtube-dl.zsh ''; # Requires network doCheck = false; meta = with lib; { homepage = "https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/"; description = "Command-line tool to download videos from YouTube.com and other sites"; longDescription = '' 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.publicDomain; platforms = with platforms; linux ++ darwin; maintainers = with maintainers; [ bluescreen303 phreedom AndersonTorres fpletz ma27 ]; }; }