aandrew-me / ytDownloader

ytDownloader A modern GUI video and audio downloader supporting hundreds of sites 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 Installation Windows 🪟 • **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 • **Scoop** App can be installed with Scoop using the following command • **Winget** App can be installed with Winget using the following command Linux 🐧 Linux has several options available - Flatpak, AppImage and Snap. Flatpak is recommended. For arm processors, download from flathub. • ### AppImage **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. • ### Flatpak • ### Snapcraft 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: You will also need to install with homebrew 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. ✅ Available languages | Name | Status | | ------------------- | ------ | | Arabic | ✔️ | | 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 and others for helping. Used technologies • yt-dlp • Electron • ffmpeg • nodeJS • flaticon For building or running from source code Nodejs (along with npm) needs to be installed. Required commands to get started. To run with Electron : 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. To build for Windows To build for macOS If you only want to build for one format, you can do It will just create a linux appimage build.