cobalt-cli

Unofficial cobalt command line client made in go. cobalt-cli uses gobalt library for communication between your machine <-> cobalt servers.

• Features
• Download
• Roadmap
• Usage
• Compiling

Features

• Get directly link from the service cdn (if possible);
• More than 15 services supported;
• JSON output using the flag -j or --json;
• Option to check status of cobalt servers;
• Use custom cobalt instances (see https://instances.hyper.lol);
• Get dubbed youtube audio.

Download

Platform/OS	Download link
Windows	x64 / x86 / arm
Linux	x64 / x86 / arm64
MacOS	Intel / M1, M2, M3

You can also check the releases page to download the latest version according to your platform.

Roadmap

Planned features for cobalt-cli:

• Json output;
  • Time expiration for the returned url.
• Option to save file to the current/custom folder, likely -s flag;
  • Display progress bar to track download progress (when supported by cobalt).
• Hability to use custom downloader program (wget, curl, got, etc);
• Translations.

Usage

cobalt-cli has two subcommands:

• download: downloads something using cobalt
• instances: lists all known cobalt instances

Download

usage: cobalt download [-h|--help] [-u|--url "<value>"] [-c|--video-codec
              (av1|vp9|h264)] [-q|--video-quality
              (144|240|360|480|720|1080|1440|2160)] [-f|--audio-format
              (opus|ogg|wav|mp3|best)] [-p|--filename-pattern
              (basic|pretty|nerdy|classic)] [-a|--no-video] [-V|--vimeo-dash]
              [-t|--full-tiktok-audio] [-v|--no-audio] [-d|--dubbed-audio]
              [-m|--metadata] [-g|--gif] [-j|--json] [-s|--status] [-i|--api
              "<value>"] [-l|--language "<value>"] [-b|--browser]

              download something using cobalt

Arguments:

  -h  --help               Print help information
  -u  --url                The url to download using cobalt
  -c  --video-codec        Video codec to be used. Applies only to youtube
                           downloads. AV1: 8K/HDR, lower support | VP9: 4K/HDR,
                           best quality | H264: 1080p, works everywhere.
                           Default: h264
  -q  --video-quality      Quality of the video. Default: 1080
  -f  --audio-format       Audio format/codec to be used. Using the default the
                           audio won't be re-encoded. Default: best
  -p  --filename-pattern   File name pattern. Classic:
                           youtube_yPYZpwSpKmA_1920x1080_h264.mp4 | audio:
                           youtube_yPYZpwSpKmA_audio.mp3 // Basic: Video Title
                           (1080p, h264).mp4 | audio: Audio Title - Audio
                           Author.mp3 // Pretty: Video Title (1080p, h264,
                           youtube).mp4 | audio: Audio Title - Audio Author
                           (soundcloud).mp3 // Nerdy: Video Title (1080p, h264,
                           youtube, yPYZpwSpKmA).mp4 | audio: Audio Title -
                           Audio Author (soundcloud, 1242868615).mp3. Default:
                           pretty
  -a  --no-video           Extract audio only. Default: false
  -V  --vimeo-dash         Downloads Vimeo videos using dash instead of
                           progressive. Default: false
  -t  --full-tiktok-audio  Enables download of original sound used in a tiktok
                           video. Default: false
  -v  --no-audio           Downloads only the video, without audio, when
                           possible. Default: false
  -d  --dubbed-audio       Downloads youtube audio dubbed, if present. Change
                           the language using -l <ISO 639-1 format>. Default:
                           false
  -m  --metadata           Disables file metadata. Default: false
  -g  --gif                Disables conversion of twitter gifs to a .gif file.
                           Default: true
  -j  --json               Output to stdin as json. Default: false
  -s  --status             Will only check status of the select cobalt server,
                           print and exit. All other options will be ignored,
                           except -j. Default: false
  -i  --api                Change the cobalt api endpoint to be used. See
                           others instances in https://instances.hyper.lol.
                           Default: https://co.wuk.sh
  -l  --language           Downloads dubbed youtube audio according to the
                           language set following the ISO 639-1 format. Only
                           takes effect if -d was passed as an argument.
                           Default: en
  -b  --browser            Opens the response link in default browser, if
                           successful. Default: false

Instances

usage: cobalt instances [-h|--help] [-j|--json]

              get the list of cobalt instances

Arguments:

  -h  --help  Print help information
  -j  --json  Output to stdout as json

JSON Output

See the documentation for the json output of cobalt-cli.

Download

All json output from the download subcommands follows this format:

{
  "error": bool,
  "message": "string",
  "urls": ["string1", "string2", ...]
}

Where:

name	type	info	example
error	bool	true if something went wrong	"error":true
message	string	return error messages, otherwise "ok"	"message":"cobalt error: i couldn't connect to the service api. maybe it's down, or cobalt got blocked"
urls	[]string	array of urls returned by the service, query scaped	"urls":["https%3A%2F%2Fus3-co.wuk.sh%2Fapi%2Fstream%3Ft%3D6kS3Xr97CAoqvPlBYX0r8%26e%3D1713849463113%26h%3DNHPfrLZ-BJejEnH2orowNy0zzTlVXSYw77RBhzIf0MU%26s%3DxvmTt9DTNl4wLslkfYfCUv6UDIPOTv9iZutl7ENM_dc%26i%3DuX7INLhsbzzofNxZaw6o7g"]

Instances

Returns almost the original json from https://instances.hyper.lol/, except we add two extra keys: error and message, just like above.

Example JSON:

[{"error":false,"message":"success!"},[{"version":"7.12.6","commit":"50a98c8","branch":"current","name":"us3","url":"co.wuk.sh","cors":1,"startTime":"1713626380117","FrontendUrl":"cobalt.tools","ApiOnline":true,"FrontEndOnline":true},{"version":"7.12.6","commit":"50a98c8","branch":"current","name":"us-east","url":"cobalt.canine.tools","cors":1,"startTime":"1713837765475","FrontendUrl":"cobalt.canine.tools","ApiOnline":true,"FrontEndOnline":true},{"version":"7.12.6","commit":"50a98c8","branch":"current","name":"us-mw","url":"coapi.selfstacked.com","cors":1,"startTime":"1713626820678","FrontendUrl":"co.selfstacked.com","ApiOnline":true,"FrontEndOnline":true}]]

Error example:

{"error":true,"message":"Get \"https://instances.hyper.lol/instances.json\": dial tcp: lookup instances.hyper.lol: no such host"}

Compiling

Make sure you have the lastest go compiler. Download it here.

Easy as:

1. Clone this repository.
2. On the root of this repository, run go mod tidy. This will download this project dependencies.
3. To run the application, use go run .. To compile, run go build.

To add additional Windows metadata, you'll need:

• go-winres, follow the install instructions there

Then run go-winres make on the root of this repository, it will create two .syso files.

After that, building with go build will automatically embed these files on the Windows executable.

Other projects

Check out too:

• tobalt, cobalt in typescript
• tcobalt, cobalt cli in rust

About & Thanks

• cobalt made by wukko && jj, super cool people;
• argparse, for handling args;
• Icon made by me;
• You, for using my application!