{ lib, fetchurl, fetchpatch, buildPythonPackage , zip, ffmpeg, rtmpdump, 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 , 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 = "2021.12.17"; src = fetchurl { url = "https://yt-dl.org/downloads/${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz"; sha256 = "sha256-nzuZyLd4RVFltFJfIVBehsf/Vl86wxnhlzPYEBlBNd8="; }; patches = [ # Fixes throttling on youtube.com by decoding a "n-parameter". 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/30184#issuecomment-1025261055 # plus follow-up (1e677567) from https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30582 (fetchpatch { name = "fix-youtube-dl-speed.patch"; url = "https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/compare/57044eacebc6f2f3cd83c345e1b6e659a22e4773...1e677567cd083d43f55daef0cc74e5fa24575ae3.diff"; sha256 = "11s0j3w60r75xx20p0x2j3yc4d3yvz99r0572si8b5qd93lqs4pr"; }) # The above patch may fail to decode the n-parameter (if, say, YouTube is updated). Failure to decode # it blocks the download instead of falling back to the throttled version. The patch below implements # better fallback behaviour. (fetchpatch { name = "avoid-crashing-if-nsig-decode-fails.patch"; url = "https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/41f0043983c831b7c0c3614340d2f66ec153087b.diff"; sha256 = "sha256-a72gWhBXCLjuBBD36PpZ5F/AHBdiBv4W8Wf9g4P/aBY="; }) # YouTube changed the n-parameter format in April 2022, so decoder updates are required. (fetchpatch { name = "fix-n-descrambling.patch"; url = "https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/a0068bd6bec16008bda7a39caecccbf84881c603.diff"; sha256 = "sha256-tSuEns4jputa2nOOo6JsFXpK3hvJ/+z1/ymcLsd3A6w="; }) ]; nativeBuildInputs = [ installShellFiles makeWrapper ]; buildInputs = [ zip ] ++ lib.optional generateManPage pandoc; propagatedBuildInputs = lib.optional hlsEncryptedSupport pycryptodome; # Ensure these utilities are available in $PATH: # - ffmpeg: post-processing & transcoding support # - rtmpdump: download files over RTMP # - atomicparsley: embedding thumbnails makeWrapperArgs = let packagesToBinPath = [ atomicparsley ] ++ lib.optional ffmpegSupport ffmpeg ++ lib.optional rtmpSupport rtmpdump; in [ ''--prefix PATH : "${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; maintainers = with maintainers; [ bluescreen303 fpletz ]; platforms = with platforms; linux ++ darwin; mainProgram = "youtube-dl"; knownVulnerabilities = [ "youtube-dl is unmaintained, migrate to yt-dlp, if possible" ]; }; }