iawia002/lux
Lux
Lux is a command line video downloader written in Go designed for extracting and saving video and audio from various websites. It functions as a concurrent media downloader that increases transfer speeds by splitting files into fragments and downloading them using multiple threads.
The tool serves as a playlist download manager capable of retrieving entire video collections or specific ranges of items. It also operates as a proxy-enabled media client, supporting HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies and session cookies to access region-locked, private, or age-gated content.
Additional capabilities include multi-platform video extraction for online archiving, the ability to resume interrupted downloads, and the extraction of video metadata exported to JSON. The system also supports subtitle embedding and configurable output file patterns.
Features
- Multi-Platform Video Extraction - Pulls video streams from a wide variety of social media, video hosting, and content sharing websites.
- Video Downloaders - Provides a command line tool for retrieving and saving video and audio content from various websites.
- Restricted Content Downloaders - Uses session cookies and proxy routing to download videos from age-gated or region-locked websites.
- Download Progress Tracking - Uses local files to record the progress of partial downloads to enable resumption after network failure.
- Web Resource Extraction - Retrieves videos, images, and audio from supported websites using a command line interface.
- Playlist Content Retrievers - Retrieves every video within a specified playlist to automate the collection of full series or sets.
- Selective Range Retrieval - Retrieves specific subsets of videos from a playlist URL by defining the range of items to download.
- Batch - Automates the retrieval of large groups of videos or entire playlists using lists of URLs.
- Byte-Range Requesting - Uses HTTP range headers to fetch specific file segments, enabling parallel transfers and interrupted download resumption.
- Download Resumption - Restarts interrupted downloads from the last successful session by tracking progress with temporary files.
- High-Speed Download Optimizations - Increases transfer speeds by splitting files into fragments and downloading them using multiple concurrent threads.
- Proxy-Aware Network Clients - Routes outgoing traffic through HTTP or SOCKS5 proxies to bypass geographic restrictions and network firewalls.
- External Binary Orchestrators - Executes third-party command line tools to handle the complex logic of extracting media streams from websites.
- Concurrent Downloaders - Implements a concurrent downloader that optimizes network throughput by splitting files into fragments for parallel retrieval.
- Concurrent Download Streams - Increases transfer speeds by splitting single video files into fragments downloaded across multiple concurrent threads.
- Browser Session Authentication - Utilizes browser session cookies to authenticate requests and access restricted or age-gated media content.
- Subtitle Processing - Fetches subtitles in specified languages and embeds them directly into the saved video files.
- Metadata Exporters - Extracts video information and stream URLs, exporting them to JSON files for external processing.
- Video Metadata Extractors - Retrieves technical details and available quality formats for online videos in JSON format.
- Download Output Configuration - Allows users to define the local directory path and filename patterns for saving downloaded media files.
- Offline Media Archiving - Saves videos and audio from various websites to a local drive for permanent offline storage.
- Traffic Routing Proxies - Routes outgoing requests through intermediary proxy servers to bypass regional network restrictions.
- Proxy Clients - Supports routing network traffic through HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies to access region-locked or restricted media.
- Cookie Management - Allows injecting session cookies into network requests to authenticate and access private or age-gated content.
- Audio and Subtitle Tools - Command-line media downloader supporting various websites.
- Media and Communication - Fast video download library and CLI.
- Go 项目 - Listed in the “Go 项目” section of the Great Open Source Project awesome list.
