/you2ber

Gnome Shell Extension youtube-dl

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YOU2BER

GNOME SHELL EXTENSION for youtube-dl.

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YOU2BER helps to download media content from online video services and convert to usable format.

Main Features

  • Clipboard support.
  • Audio extraction to ~/Music/youtube folder.
  • Video extraction to ~/Videos/youtube folder.

How-to use

  1. Copy valid URI address to the clipboard buffer
  2. Open the extension menu and select a desired audio or video stream.

Contributions

  • Report a bug.
  • Test it on your favorite Linux distribution.
  • Contribute with an idea, graphical content, translation or code an issue.
  • Make donation to the project:
  • PayPal EURO
  • PayPal USD
  • Contact to the author here.

Behind the development for the Linux Desktop are ordinary people who spend a lot of time and their own resources to make the Linux Desktop better. Thank you for your contributions!

Installation

Dependencies

Recommends

  • ffmpeg (youtube-dl dependency for media manipulation)

Linux installation:

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

Install from GitHub branch (default master)

  1. Download
wget https://github.com/konkor/you2ber/archive/master.zip
  1. Unpack this archive to /.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/you2ber@konkor or install in the gnome-tweak-tool
  2. Restart Gnome to reload extensions by:
  • user's Log-out/Log-in (X11/Wayland)
  • Alt+F2 and enter r command (X11 only)
  • or just reboot PC (X11/Wayland)
  1. Turn on the extension

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