lollipop 🍭

A friendly and lovely cli youtube downloader written in typescript for Linux, MacOS, Windows.

Features

• Download video and audio separately
• Auto merging you download video and audio together
• Convert audios to mp3

Requirement

• Lollipop use ffmpeg, so you should installed that

Installation (Linux/MacOS)

• Run this command on your terminal to install lollipop:
  

  curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sudospaes/lollipop/main/install.sh | bash
  

• Run these to verify:
  

  lollipop
  

Installation (Windows)

No installer has been written for Windows yet

• Download latest version from release
• Rename downloaded file to lollipop
• Open terminal or cmd and run lollipop:
  

  ./lollipop.exe
  

How to use (example)

Lollipop uses tags to download from YouTube. You have to provide it your desired video tag and audio tag, for example, the command below:

./lollipop down youtube_link -v tag_number -a tag_number

If you won't do that. It's be fine. just type ./lollipop down youtube_link to lollipop downloading highest qualities for you :3

Lollipop has not left you alone to get the tag number. You can get the information with using get command, see this example:

./lollipop get https://youtu.be/-dYB0xfE7qs?si=29PqrPHpJ2Xd1lah

You will get this output from lollipop:

Now you know video tag and audio tag. so, run this command to download them and auto-merging with lollipop:

./lollipop down https://youtu.be/-dYB0xfE7qs?si=29PqrPHpJ2Xd1lah -v 137 -a 251