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soragui/ytd-library
===================

PHP wrapper for youtube-dl

v0.2(2y ago)07[1 PRs](https://github.com/soragui/ytd-library/pulls)GPL-3.0-onlyPHP

Since Sep 14Pushed 1y ago1 watchersCompare

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Ytd library
===========

[](#ytd-library)

> Fork from [alltube](https://github.com/Rudloff/alltube-library) which is nolonger maintain.

This library lets you extract a video URL from a webpage by providing a wrapper for [youtube-dl](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html).

You can install it with:

```
composer require soragui/ytd-library
```

You can then use it in your PHP code:

```
use Ytd\Library\Downloader;

require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

$downloader = new Downloader('/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl');
$video = $downloader->getVideo('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ');
$video->getUrl();
```

###  Health Score

21

—

LowBetter than 19% of packages

Maintenance30

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity35

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 88.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

969d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1534f67b07f82294db4b0c30ef7117ac18b852d0768df03eeee4dbeca96b50ec?d=identicon)[soragui](/maintainers/soragui)

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Top Contributors

[![Rudloff](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/840125?v=4)](https://github.com/Rudloff "Rudloff (31 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (4 commits)")

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Tags

phpphp-libraryyoutube-dl

###  Code Quality

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

Type Coverage Yes

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