How can I download youtube videos php?

Question

I am looking for anyway to download video from youtube ... Of course I used and tried all codes and scripts , all of them are failure ...

Therefore I want the new code that help me ...

Answer 1

Use an external tool for that. youtube-dl comes to mind, and is simple to utilize from within PHP:

$url = escapeshellcmd($url);
exec("youtube-dl $url -O /tmp/video.flv");