ytDownloader README

The project's README from github.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader. As one markdown file: README.md.

ytDownloader

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A modern GUI video and audio downloader supporting hundreds of sites

Get it from the Snap Store Get AppImage Chocolatey

Features 🚀

✅ Supports hundreds of sites including Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter and so on.

✅ Multiple themes

✅ Video Compressor with Hardware Acceleration

✅ Advanced options like Range Selection, Subtitles

✅ Download playlists

✅ Available on Linux, Windows & macOS

✅ Fast download speeds

✅ And of-course no trackers or ads

Screenshots

ss-homepage
More screenshots ss-playlist ss-compressor ss-settings

Installation

Windows 🪟

Linux 🐧

Linux has several options available - Flatpak, AppImage and Snap. Flatpak is recommended. For arm processors, download from flathub.

macOS 🍎

Since the app is not signed, when you will try to open the app, macOS will not allow you to open it.

You need to open terminal and execute:

sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/YTDownloader.app

You will also need to install yt-dlp with homebrew

brew install yt-dlp

Internationalization (Localization) 🌍

Translations into other languages would be highly appreciated. If you want to help translating the app to other languages, you can join from here. Open a new issue and that language will be added to Crowdin. Please don't make pull requests with json files, instead use Crowdin.

Crowdin

✅ Available languages

Name Status
Arabic ✔️
Basque ✔️
Bengali ✔️
English ✔️
Chinese Simplified ✔️
Chinese Traditional ✔️
Finnish ✔️
Hindi ✔️
French ✔️
Finnish ✔️
German ✔️
Greek ✔️
Hungarian ✔️
Italian ✔️
Japanese ✔️
Persian ✔️
Polish ✔️
Portuguese (Brazil) ✔️
Russian ✔️
Spanish ✔️
Turkish ✔️
Ukrainian ✔️
Vietnamese ✔️

Thanks to nxjosephofficial, LINUX-SAUNA, Proxycon, albanobattistella, TheBlueQuasar, MrQuerter, KotoWhiskas, André, haggen88, XfedeX, Jok3r, TitouanReal, soredake, yoi, HowlingWerewolf, Kum, Mohammed Bakry, Huang Bingfeng, Abhinav, CodWiz, Bovirus and others for helping.

Used technologies

For building or running from source code

Nodejs (along with npm) needs to be installed.

Required commands to get started.

git clone https://github.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader.git
cd ytDownloader
npm i

To run with Electron :

npm start

You need to download ffmpeg and put it in the root directory of the project. If you don't need to build for arm processor, you can download ffmpeg by executing any of the files - linux.sh / mac.sh / windows.sh depending on the platform. Otherwise you need to download ffmpeg from here for windows/linux and from here for mac (not tested)

To build for Linux (It will create packages as specified in package.json). The builds are stored in release folder.

npm run linux

To build for Windows

npm run windows

To build for macOS

npm run mac

If you only want to build for one format, you can do

npx electron-builder -l appimage

It will just create a linux appimage build.

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这是什么东西?ytDownloader 是一款带图形界面的桌面应用,用来从网上下载视频和音频,不需要用命令行。
这是我要访问的网站,还是需要安装的软件?它是一个用 Electron 和 Node.js 开发的桌面程序,运行在你自己的电脑上;底层由 yt-dlp 和 ffmpeg 负责下载和媒体处理。
怎么把它安装到我的电脑上?Windows:可以通过 Microsoft Store、exe/msi 安装包,或者 Chocolatey、Scoop 和 Winget。Linux:Flatpak(推荐)、AppImage 或 Snap。macOS:下载应用后在终端里执行准备步骤。
我需要先安装 yt-dlp 或 ffmpeg 吗?README 里提到的唯一手动步骤是在 macOS 上用 Homebrew 安装 yt-dlp。除此之外不用装任何额外的东西——应用本身就内置了 yt-dlp 和 ffmpeg。
第一次打开时有什么需要注意的地方吗?有。Windows Defender 可能会弹出“Windows 已保护你的电脑”的警告(点击“更多信息”,再选“仍要运行”即可),macOS 版本未签名,需要先在终端执行一条命令,macOS 才允许你打开它。
它是免费的吗?会有广告或跟踪吗?它基于 GPL-3.0 协议免费开源,README 承诺不含任何跟踪器或广告。
它能从哪些网站下载?支持数百个网站——README 里点名了 YouTube、Facebook、Instagram、TikTok 和 Twitter 等。由于它基于 yt-dlp 运行,凡是 yt-dlp 支持的网站基本上都能用。
界面支持哪些语言?超过 20 种,包括英语、西班牙语、法语、德语、俄语、阿拉伯语、印地语、日语、简体中文和繁体中文、葡萄牙语(巴西)、土耳其语和乌克兰语等。翻译工作通过 Crowdin 管理。
这个应用会自动更新吗?Linux 的 AppImage 版本内置了自动更新功能。README 没有说明其他安装方式是否有自动更新。
What are similar projects?ytdlnis, Seal, yt-dlp, YoutubeDownloader, ISpotify, VidBee, stemkit, vdl
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aandrew-me
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