Technical Documentation: Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader
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Overview (`Readme.md`)
YoutubeDownloader
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YoutubeDownloader is an application that lets you download videos from YouTube.
You can copy-paste URL of any video, playlist or channel and download it directly in a format of your choice.
It also supports searching by keywords, which is helpful if you want to quickly look up and download videos.
[!NOTE]
This application uses YoutubeExplode under the hood to interact with YouTube.
You can read this article to learn more about how it works.
Terms of use[[?]](https://github.com/Tyrrrz/.github/blob/prime/docs/why-so-political.md)
By using this project or its source code, for any purpose and in any shape or form, you grant your implicit agreement to all the following statements:
- You condemn Russia and its military aggression against Ukraine
- You recognize that Russia is an occupant that unlawfully invaded a sovereign state
- You support Ukraine's territorial integrity, including its claims over temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas
- You reject false narratives perpetuated by Russian state propaganda
To learn more about the war and how you can help, click here. Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Download
- 🟢 Stable release
- 🟠 CI build
- 📦 Scoop:
scoop install extras/youtubedownloader(community-maintained) - 📦 AUR:
yay -S youtubedownloader(community-maintained)
[!IMPORTANT]
To launch the app on MacOS, you may need to first remove the downloaded file from quarantine.
You can do that by running the following command in the terminal:xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine YoutubeDownloader.app.
[!NOTE]
Community-maintained packages are published independently from this repository and may not always be up to date with the latest release.
[!NOTE]
If you're unsure which build is right for your system, consult with this page to determine your OS and CPU architecture.
Features
- Cross-platform graphical user interface
- Download videos by URL
- Download videos from playlists or channels
- Download videos by search query
- Selectable video quality and format
- Automatically embed audio tracks in alternative languages
- Automatically embed subtitles
- Automatically inject media tags
- Log in with a YouTube account to access private content
Screenshots
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- Canonical Reference: https://codewiki.google/github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader