Play-dl

A light-weight YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Deezer streaming and searching library.

• Search by video, playlist/album, channel/artist
• Stream audio from YouTube and SoundCloud

Why play-dl ?

ytdl-core has some issues with miniget and also stream abort issues. On the other hand, youtube-dl is a perfect alternative but it takes time to launch. Hence, play-dl is created to avoid these issues along with providing comparatively faster performance than others.

Support

You can contact us for support on our chat server.

Installation

Node.js 16.0.0 or newer is required.

npm install play-dl@latest
pnpm add play-dl@latest
yarn add play-dl@latest

Importing

TypeScript:

import play from 'play-dl'; // Everything

import { video_basic_info, stream } from 'play-dl'; // Individual functions

CommonJS modules:

const play = require('play-dl'); // Everything

// Individual functions by using destructuring
const { video_basic_info, stream } = require('play-dl');

ES6 modules:

import * as play from 'play-dl'; // Everything

import { video_basic_info, stream } from 'play-dl'; // Individual functions

Documentation

Examples

Instructions