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What is it?

Small project with one main function - download a video from RuTube(it's a russian copy of YouTube).

How to use it?

UI

• Download executable file from Releases.

CLI

1. Install library

pip install async_rutube_downloader

2. Run

rtube-cli https://rutube.ru/video/365ae8f40a2ffd2a5901ace4db799de7/

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• rtube-cli --help output

❯ rtube-cli
usage: rtube-cli [-h] [-o] [-q] [-v] [-f] [-d] [url]

This CLI utility allows you to download videos from Rutube.
 - You can download a single video or multiple videos by providing a file with URLs.
 - By default, videos from a file will be downloaded in the best available quality.

positional arguments:
  url                URL or ID of the Rutube video

options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -o , --output      Output directory (default: current working directory)
  -q, --quality      Select video quality interactively
  -v, --version      show program's version number and exit

Multiple videos download:
  -f , --file        Path to the file with URLs
  -d , --delimiter   Delimiter between URLs in the file(default: \n)

Usage examples:
 - Download single video:
      [rtube-cli] 365ae8f40a2ffd2a5901ace4db799de7
      [rtube-cli] https://rutube.ru/video/365ae8f40a2ffd2a5901ace4db799de7/
      [rtube-cli] https://rutube.ru/video/365ae8f40a2ffd2a5901ace4db799de7/ -q
 - Download multiple videos:
      [rtube-cli] -f ~/path/to/file1.txt
      [rtube-cli] -f ~/path/to/file2.txt -d ,

Use in code

1. Install library

pip install async_rutube_downloader

2. Use example

qualities is a tuple, like: ((1280, 720), (1920,1080))

• async

import asyncio
from async_rutube_downloader.rutube_downloader import RutubeDownloader


async def download():
    downloader = RutubeDownloader(
        "https://rutube.ru/video/365ae8f40a2ffd2a5901ace4db799de7/"
    )
    qualities = await downloader.fetch_video_info()
    await downloader.select_quality(max(qualities))
    await downloader.download_video()

asyncio.run(download())

• sync

import asyncio
from async_rutube_downloader.rutube_downloader import RutubeDownloader


loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
downloader = RutubeDownloader(
    "https://rutube.ru/video/365ae8f40a2ffd2a5901ace4db799de7/", loop
)
qualities = loop.run_until_complete(downloader.fetch_video_info())
loop.run_until_complete(downloader.select_quality(max(qualities)))
loop.run_until_complete(downloader.download_video())
loop.close()

Source code

About

This project was created for learning purposes and was inspired by a similar synchronous library and a book about async.

Technical Features

• TKinter UI
• argparse(stdlib) CLI
• The honest progress bar shows the actual download progress.
• UI and loading work in different threads.
• UI localization.
• The async version allows you to use the full speed of your internet connection.
• PyInstaller is used to create an executable file.

Dependencies

title	description
m3u8	Used for playlist parsing
aiohttp	Async http client
aiofiles	async work with files
slugify	Convert video title to file name
CustomTkinter	Better TKinter UI