youtube download without youtube-dl

[jay lee]

Is there a way for autohotkey to download a video as audio file from youtube without using external programs like youtube-dl?

[swagfag]

conceptually, yes. at its core, all youtube-dl is doing is sending a series of httprequests to download chunks of the video, then hands them off to ffmpeg to compile together into a file(s)
u can download youtube-dl source, run it under a python debugger, single-step through the code as ure executing a particular command ure thinking of and see whats its doing internally
then do the same for ffmpeg(a tad more involved given its a C program, but do-able)
then rewrite it all in AHK

[jay lee]

conceptually, yes. at its core, all youtube-dl is doing is sending a series of httprequests to download chunks of the video, then hands them off to ffmpeg to compile together into a file(s)
u can download youtube-dl source, run it under a python debugger, single-step through the code as ure executing a particular command ure thinking of and see whats its doing internally
then do the same for ffmpeg(a tad more involved given its a C program, but do-able)
then rewrite it all in AHK

well that will be hard, maybe I have to use youtube-dl