{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgs , zip, ffmpeg, rtmpdump, atomicparsley, pandoc # Pandoc is required to build the package's man page. Release tarballs contain a # formatted man page already, though, it will still be installed. We keep the # manpage argument in place in case someone wants to use this derivation to # build a Git version of the tool that doesn't have the formatted man page # included. , generateManPage ? false , ffmpegSupport ? true , rtmpSupport ? true , makeWrapper }: with stdenv.lib; let buildPythonApplication = args: pkgs.pythonPackages.buildPythonPackage ({namePrefix="";} // args ); in buildPythonApplication rec { name = "youtube-dl-${version}"; version = "2017.04.28"; src = fetchurl { url = "https://yt-dl.org/downloads/${version}/${name}.tar.gz"; sha256 = "0d3mgf8qxb07b7bjf79ppaxhcl4f47q0zjpshp6y2q0lalfskh3j"; }; nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ]; buildInputs = [ zip ] ++ optional generateManPage pandoc; # Ensure ffmpeg is available in $PATH for post-processing & transcoding support. # rtmpdump is required to download files over RTMP # atomicparsley for embedding thumbnails postInstall = let packagesToBinPath = [ atomicparsley ] ++ optional ffmpegSupport ffmpeg ++ optional rtmpSupport rtmpdump; in '' wrapProgram $out/bin/youtube-dl --prefix PATH : "${makeBinPath packagesToBinPath}" ''; # Requires network doCheck = false; meta = { homepage = http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/; repositories.git = https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git; description = "Command-line tool to download videos from YouTube.com and other sites"; longDescription = '' youtube-dl is a small, Python-based command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. youtube-dl is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. ''; license = licenses.publicDomain; platforms = with platforms; linux ++ darwin; maintainers = with maintainers; [ bluescreen303 phreedom AndersonTorres fuuzetsu fpletz ]; }; }