Converting YouTube videos to audio or video locally and programmatically, without relying on third-party web services.

The problem

Converting YouTube videos to audio or video locally and programmatically, without relying on third-party web services.

node-yt-converter

A library published on the official NPM registry, written entirely in TypeScript. It converts YouTube videos to MP3 audio or MP4 video quickly and locally.

It uses FFmpeg internally for transcoding and exposes a simple programmatic API, designed to be embedded in bots, automation scripts, or custom backends. It has 13 stars on GitHub.