YouTube (Download v1.8)

Search and Download YouTube Videos

Requirements

1. Alfred App v2
2. Alfred Powerpack
3. Homebrew w/ youtube-dl & ffmpeg
4. VLC if you want streaming with this application

Installing

1. Click the download buttons below
2. Double-click to import into Alfred 2
3. Review the workflow to add custom Hotkeys

Setting up brew

# Install Homebrew
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

brew install ffmpeg
brew install youtube-dl

Updating

Run the Alleyoop Workflow using the keyword oop. If you're not comfortable with Alleyoop, star & watch this repo to keep up to date on new versions and additional workflows.

About

Typing youtube followed by a search query will show the results for the query. For example, youtube daftpunk will search for DaftPunk videos.

Commands

• yt {query} - Searches YouTube for videos matching the query.
• yt c|channels {query} - Searches for channels.
• yt cv|channelvideos {query} - Shows videos for the specified channel.
• yt toprated - Shows the top rated videos.
• yt topfavorited - Shows the most favourited videos.
• yt mostviewed - Shows the most viewed videos.
• yt mostpopular Shows the most popular videos.
• yt mostrecent Shows the most recent videos.
• yt mostdiscussed Shows the most discussed videos.
• yt mostresponded Shows the videos with most responds.
• yt recentlyfeatured Shows videos which have recently been featured.
• yt-download {query} - what happens with search query

If you find yourself having a hard time remembering the commands, remember that they will show up in autocompletion if you type yt.

Action Modifier

• Hold alt to download the video
• Hold control to download the audio from the video
• Hold cmd to play the video with VLC

Contributors

• @willfarrell
• @simonbs - alfred-youtube-workflow
• @adrianbs - Play with VLC
• David Ferguson - Blog Post