A lightweight and efficient YouTube video downloader written in Rust. This tool allows you to download YouTube videos with just a few essential dependencies for core functionality!

• 🚀 High-performance async downloads using reqwest
• 🎯 Carefully selected minimal dependencies for core functionality
• 📈 Download statistics and TTFB measurements
• 🔄 Streaming support
• 🪶 Lightweight and efficient

• Rust 1.75 or higher
• FFmpeg (required for audio conversion)

[dependencies]
rustytdown = "0.1.0"

use rustytdown::YouTubeDownloader;

#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    
    let downloader = YouTubeDownloader::new()?;
    downloader.download_and_convert("dQw4w9WgXcQ").await?;
    
    Ok(())
}

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.