At first I want to admit that I am a noob in python programming. but still somehow I have managed to figure out how to modify some python regular expressions as the extractor can get some extra data for me. Unfortunately I don't know how to build executable from the changed source code. because I am using a PHP wrapper to use the youtube-dl ubuntu executable for scraping some data.
I have noticed there is a 6+ years old post on this in
but unfortunately the solution didn't provide the way to recompile or rebuild. I even haven't found how to rebuild in the official documentation for developer here in
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#developer-instructions
Most users do not need to build youtube-dl and can download the builds or get them from their distribution.
To run youtube-dl as a developer, you don't need to build anything either.
and at the end for open source contribution using git
- Finally, create a pull request. We'll then review and merge it.
but couldn't find anything to build it locally to use locally.
As documented in the development instructions, you can run youtube-dl interactively with
python -m youtube_dl
while the youtube-dl repository is in your PYTHONPATH, for example because your cwd is the root of the youtube-dl repository.
For development, it's often easier to run the tests instead. Again, as documented, any of these work:
python -m unittest discover
python test/test_download.py
nosetests
If you're developing an extractor, you can run
python test/test_download.py TestDownload.test_YourExtractor
to just test your extractor.
If you actually want a youtube-dl binary, type
make
in the root directory of the youtube-dl repository. You will get a binary called youtube-dl.
Note that make works with any well-maintained software project, although some new-millennium hipster languages prefer to reinvent their own incompatible version.