This repository is no longer maintained. The functionality of this project has been merged into YouTube.js. We highly recommend switching to that package in order to have the latest functionality. We cannot promise stability if you continue to use this package as is.

This NodeJS library generates a DASH Manifest file for a YouTube video in order to allow a playback with 1080p+ resolutions. It is developed for and tailored towards easy usage in FreeTube but can be used with any other project as well. It takes the adaptive formats of the response string as input. If this library should not work at some point, please create an issue and let me know so that I can take a look into it. Pull requests are also welcomed in this case.

npm install @freetube/yt-dash-manifest-generator yarn add @freetube/yt-dash-manifest-generator

##Usage const ytdashgen = require("@freetube/yt-dash-manifest-generator")

generateDashFileFromJsonData(jsonStringData, videoLengthInSeconds)

Takes a JSON file as string and the length of the video in seconds. Usable when the data from ytdl.getInfo() is already available

const xml_string = generateDashFileFromJsonData(jsonString, videoLengthInSeconds)

async generateDashFileFromJsonDataFromId(videoId, videoLength)

Takes the length of the video in seconds as well as the ID of the video as input and gets the json data itself with yt-dl-core

generateDashFileFromJsonDataFromId(videoId, videoLength).then((xmlData) => {
    doSomethingWithXML();
}).catch((error) =>{
    console.error(error)
})

generateDashFileFromFormats(videoFormats, videoLength)

Takes an array of formats in the way which yt-dl-core provides it as well as the video length in seconds and generates the xml file

const xml_string = generateDashFileFromFormats(videoFormats, videoLength)