Youtube mp4 downloader script

YouTube is the most popular videos sharing platform where we watched videos online. However, we often need to get those YouTube videos for offline uses. If you’re a PHP developer then definitely you&#;re looking for a PHP script to download YouTube videos on your local server. So here in this post, we will explain how easily you can create your own PHP script to download your favorite YouTube videos.

At the end of this post, you will also see live demo of YouTube video download script and also download live demo source code.

As we know that YouTube didn’t provide any ways to get the raw video but still we can download it. As the player will always issue a HTTP request to www.cronistalascolonias.com.ar?video_id=THE_VIDEO_ID to get information about a specific video. The result of the request contains a URL-encoded string that has the video’s location. So, we will need to get that part first of video.

Now we will get all the streams. As the stream is also different sets of URL-encoded data separated by a comma. In order to retrieve all the streams, we need to turn it into an array by using explode(&#;,&#;,$streams).

Finally, we will need to loop through all the streams and get its data.

The complete PHP script to download YouTube videos:

Now you can call it like this after you’ve put it to the server in  a PHP file:

Here we have developed a complete YouTube video downloader script with the help of above. You can see this script in action from below live demo link.

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