Error when trying to use example about node-youtube-dl HOT 6 CLOSED

How did you install it? Did you use npm or git cloned? Did the youtube-dl executable get downloaded in the bin folder? Do the tests pass?

from node-youtube-dl.

I used npm isntall youtube-dl, I'm running it in windows 7.
it installed the module in my /app_dir/node_modules/youtube-dl/

Doing only the require does not trigger the error yet, its the .download function

Thank for your fast reply by the way 👍 I hope we can solve this

Edit: and yes, "youtube-dl" is in the /bin/ folder.

from node-youtube-dl.

Hmm Windows 7. I haven't tested this on Windows since at the moment I don't have access to it. The way this works is it downloads the youtube-dl program from here. But currently it downloads the unix script, not sure if this is executable on Windows. In the future I might update it so it downloads the exe if installed on Windows.

If you are planning on using this to download only from Youtube, take a look at ytdl, which uses only Javascript and should work on all platforms.

from node-youtube-dl.

By browing your profile I actually found that one and i just recieved my first file on it, Looks good, less options though, I think.

Thanks for awnsering my questions :)

Sorry for going off-topic here but do you know the simplest way to convert a part of the downloaded video to a gif in nodejs? I'm going to try ffmpeg but I dont think it supports quite what I'm looking for.

from node-youtube-dl.

No problem. :)

I was trying to do something similar to that 2 years ago, which was the reason for creating this module. Not sure if ffmpeg can convert to gif, I know it can export part of a video to a sequence of images. You can then use either imagemagick or gifsicle to turn it into a gif.

from node-youtube-dl.

Yeah that's what I had in mind. Thanks!

from node-youtube-dl.