YouTube Time Range Extractor To Mp3 helper class for the Laravel Framework
This helper class is inspired by youtube-dl (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl) and extends its functionality by downloading only specified range of YouTube video and converting it to MP3 file with sound quality compatible with Amazon Echo.
macOS users can install youtube-dl and ffmpeg dependencies with Homebrew
brew install youtube-dl
brew install ffmpeg
Then install this package with composer
composer require norkunas/youtube-dl-php
Sample usage:
$extractor = new App\Services\YoutubeTimeRangeExtractorToMp3();
$extractor->setVideoLink('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFPTmvvvl8U');
$videoData = $extractor->getVideoDuration();
In order to download specified part of the video (ex.: from 10 sec. to 15 sec.) and convert it to MP3, use the code below:
$extractor->download(10, 15);
The audio file will be stored in /path_to_your_laravel_project/storage/app/wpudQ75m85uedZ6MHCP0fhI3N0Rmc0miuUHLIpwZ.mp3.
You can inspect the output of this command for more details.