YoutubeDownloader

GTK3 UI for youtube,vimeo and others

Version 1.4.1

This simple GUI for the youtube-dl runs on linux. Goal was to get high quality audio and video using ffmepg where necessary.

Features

Downloads either video(with audio) or audio only from youtube, vimeo and other platforms by simply dragging the url from the browser to the list.
Videos from different sites (such as Youtube, Vimeo,Rumble and (German Broadcasting)Mediatheks can be downloaded.
Press the "Download" button to download the list or single URLs.
In addition an URL may be entered manually using the "plus" icon
The URLs in the list can be saved and restored
When downloading, the "Download" button becomes an "Interrupt" button, which enables you to stop the download while underway.
Doubleclick on an downloaded entry will start playing it with the default audio/video player
Via context menu entries can be removed, folders opened or files downloaded again(forced)
Multi selection via "CRTL+A"
Can also be started via terminal with "YtGui"

Settings

Clicking the "clogwheel" icon you may set the target directories for video and audio individually as well as the download quality.

There are 3 options for video quality:

A MP4 container will lead mostly to a good result,but usually not the best
MKV container can take literally any codec. Since youtube often uses webm container with vp9 and opus codecs this would be the choice for best quality
The "auto" modus will not pass any merge requests to youtube-dl, so depending on the available data either MKV or webm container will be the output.

Prerequisites

python3
python3-gi (debian) or python-gobject (Arch)
ffmpeg

Install on Arch or Manjaro

Search for "ytdownloader" in pamac, yay or on AUR. If done by hand:

Download PKGBUILD from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ytdownloader/
Open terminal and execute "makepkg -s"
sudo pacman -U ytdownloader....

Install on Ubuntu 20.04 or Mint 20.X

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 10FA0B428C349916
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jentiger-moratai/mediatools
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ytdownloader

Prepare manual install on Debian (can't unpack the "modern" deb compression...)

sudo apt install python3-gi ffmpeg

Prepare manual install on Arch or Manjaro

sudo pacman -Syu python-gobject ffmpeg

Prepare manual install on Fedora

sudo dnf -y install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf -y install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf -y install ffmpeg

How to install(Manual)

Download the current YtDownloader*.tar
Unpack it and run the command sudo ./install.sh in the unpacked folder.
Install just copies a desktop file and some python scripts to /opt/ytdownloader
In case your distro's youtube-dl is too old use sudo ./installYoutube-dl.sh to get the lastest version. Be sure to remove the youtube-dl package before, in case it is already installed

Changes

2019-11 Immediate download when dragged, added context menus for delete, delete via "DEL" button, clean output file name
2019-12 Doubleclick invokes play of default audio or video player, open folder via context menu
2021-02 Support for youtube playlists - redesigned the model, multiple selection possible
2021-02 Added update for youtube-dl (if installed manually by the "installYoutube-dl" script)
2021-02 Fixed youtube playlist special url downloads
2021-03 Support for various media platforms
2021-11 Prepare for AUR PKGBUILD
2021-11 Moved backend from youtube-dl to yt-dlp
2021-11 Prepare for debian .deb

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