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n8n-nodes-ytdlp

v0.1.5

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n8n community node for yt-dlp – download videos and audio from 1000+ websites

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Readme

n8n-nodes-ytdlp

An n8n community node that integrates yt-dlp — a powerful command-line tool to download videos and audio from 1000+ websites including YouTube, Twitter/X, TikTok, Bilibili, and many more.

Prerequisites

yt-dlp must be installed on the machine running n8n.

Install yt-dlp

# via pip (recommended)
pip install yt-dlp

# or download the binary directly (no Python required)
# https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest

Verify the installation:

yt-dlp --version

Optional dependencies (for full functionality)

# For merging video+audio streams (highly recommended)
# Windows: download from https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
# Linux/Mac:
apt install ffmpeg   # Debian/Ubuntu
brew install ffmpeg  # macOS

Installation

Via n8n UI (Recommended)

  1. Go to Settings → Community Nodes
  2. Click Install
  3. Enter: n8n-nodes-ytdlp
  4. Click Install

Via CLI

# In your n8n installation directory:
npm install n8n-nodes-ytdlp

Operations

| Operation | Description | |-----------|-------------| | Get Info | Retrieve video/playlist metadata as JSON (no download) | | List Formats | List all available download formats for a URL | | Download | Download video/audio to a local directory | | Extract Audio | Download and extract audio in a specified format (MP3, M4A, etc.) |

Parameters

| Parameter | Operations | Description | |-----------|------------|-------------| | URL | All | Video or playlist URL | | yt-dlp Binary Path | All | Path to the yt-dlp binary (default: yt-dlp) | | Output Directory | Download, Extract Audio | Local directory to save files | | Format | Download | yt-dlp format selector string | | Audio Format | Extract Audio | MP3, M4A, AAC, Opus, FLAC, WAV | | Audio Quality | Extract Audio | VBR quality 0–9 (0 = best) | | Flat Playlist | Get Info | List playlist entries without full metadata | | Cookies File | All | Path to a Netscape cookies.txt for authentication | | Proxy URL | All | HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy URL | | Additional Arguments | All | Extra raw yt-dlp CLI arguments |

Example Workflows

Get video metadata

  1. Add yt-dlp node → Operation: Get Info
  2. Enter URL → execute
  3. Output contains title, duration, thumbnail, formats, etc.

Download best MP4

  1. Add yt-dlp node → Operation: Download
  2. Set Output Directory to /tmp/videos
  3. Format: bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best

Extract MP3 audio

  1. Add yt-dlp node → Operation: Extract Audio
  2. Audio Format: mp3, Quality: 5

Resources

License

This node package is released under the Unlicense.
yt-dlp itself is also released under the Unlicense.