ytDownloader Documentation

Technical Documentation: aandrew-me/ytDownloader

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Overview (`README.md`) Copy Section

ytDownloader

A modern GUI video and audio downloader supporting hundreds of sites

Features 🚀 Copy Chapter

✅ 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 Copy Chapter

More screenshots

Installation

Windows 🪟 Copy Chapter

• Microsoft Store

  Download app from Microsoft Store.

• Traditional way

  Download and install the exe or msi file. Exe file lets you choose custom download location, msi file doesn't ask for location. Windows defender may show a popup saying Windows Protected Your PC. Just click on More info and click on Run Anyway

• Chocolatey
  App can be installed from Chocolatey using the following command

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  choco install ytdownloader

• Scoop
  App can be installed with Scoop using the following command

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  scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader/main/ytdownloader.json

• Winget

  App can be installed with Winget using the following command

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  winget install aandrew-me.ytDownloader

Linux 🐧 Copy Chapter

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

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  AppImage format is supported on most Linux distros and has Auto-Update support.
  It just needs to be executed after downloading. See more about AppImages here.

  AppImageLauncher is recommended for integrating AppImages.

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  flatpak install flathub io.github.aandrew_me.ytdn

• Snapcraft Copy Section

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  sudo snap install ytdownloader

macOS 🍎 Copy Chapter

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) 🌍 Copy Chapter

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.

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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 Copy Chapter

• yt-dlp
• Electron
• ffmpeg
• nodeJS
• flaticon

For building or running from source code Copy Chapter

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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