Clipboard to youtube-dl

This Go application will monitor your clipboard for urls and automatically starts download with youtube-dl (list of supported sites). After download has been finished you'll get a system notification with detailed information. In your system tray you'll find a new icon to control this application.

Features

• queue copied urls
• start and stop download
• push notifications

IMPORTANT

Currently I can only support running this app under Windows and Linux.

Configuration

You can use all configurations of youtube-dl like video or audio format, quality, output directory and many more.

Building from sources

Requirements

• Go including dep
• youtube-dl
• Docker CE

First you need to create a new folder under your $GOPATH.

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/hebestreit

Navigate in this folder and checkout this repository.

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hebestreit
$ git clone https://github.com/hebestreit/clipboard-yt-dl.git

For this part you'll need Docker to build application for all platforms. See below how to compile without docker.

$ cd clipboard-yt-dl
$ make all

Of course you can build it without Docker directly on your system. Be sure you've all required dev packages installed.

$ GOOS=linux CC=clang CXX=clang++ go build -o "bin/clipboard-yt-dl_linux" ./cmd/clipboard-yt-dl $*
$ GOOS=windows CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc CXX=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ go build -o "bin/clipboard-yt-dl_windows.exe" -ldflags "-H=windowsgui -extldflags=-s" ./cmd/clipboard-yt-dl $*
$ darwin CGO_LDFLAGS_ALLOW="-mmacosx-version-min.*" CC=o64-clang CXX=o64-clang++ go build -o "bin/clipboard-yt-dl_darwin.app" ./cmd/clipboard-yt-dl $*

Now you can find all binaries under $GOPATH/src/github.com/hebestreit/clipboard-yt-dl/bin and start copying over the world!

$ ls -l bin/
clipboard-yt-dl_darwin.app
clipboard-yt-dl_linux
clipboard-yt-dl_windows.exe

Trouble Shooting

extractor: youtube-dl is not in PATH

This error occurs if you have not installed youtube-dl correctly and set location to your environment variables. Under Linux you can simply move to /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl. For Windows check this answer on stackoverflow.com and restart your system. ;-)

Dependencies

This is a list of dependencies I'm using in this project.

• github.com/shivylp/clipboard for monitoring clipboard which is a fork of github.com/atotto/clipboard.
• github.com/gen2brain/beeep sending notifications
• github.com/getlantern/systray menu item in systray for user interactions