ytDownloader/README.md

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# ytDownloader

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A modern GUI video and audio downloader supporting [hundreds of sites](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md)


[![Get it from the Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg)](https://snapcraft.io/ytdownloader)
[![Get AppImage](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/srevinsaju/get-appimage/master/static/badges/get-appimage-branding-blue.png)](https://github.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader/releases/latest/download/YTDownloader_Linux.AppImage)
<a href="https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.aandrew_me.ytdn"><img src="https://flathub.org/assets/badges/flathub-badge-en.svg" style="width:180px;"></a>
<a href="https://github.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader/releases/latest/download/YTDownloader_Win.exe
"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/66430340/187172806-a8edd12a-ef58-4a05-96a3-99d7490b42f6.png" style="width:190px;"></a>
<a href="https://github.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader/releases/latest/download/YTDownloader_Mac_arm64.dmg"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/aandrew-me/badges/download_mac_apple_silicon.png" style="width:200px;"></a>
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<a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ytdownloader-gui"><img src="https://github-production-user-asset-6210df.s3.amazonaws.com/66430340/238885924-de1880ec-ebb9-40b1-bd0f-d98d0ddeedd9.png" alt="AUR" style="width:200px;"></a>
<a href="https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/ytdownloader"><img style="width:200px;" src="https://github-production-user-asset-6210df.s3.amazonaws.com/66430340/238886537-7b2769fe-bd62-4921-a0eb-edf2eb06216d.png" alt="Chocolatey"></a>

## 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, Freebsd & macOS

✅ Fast download speeds

✅ And of-course no trackers or ads

## Screenshots

<!-- ![dark](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/66430340/196022794-885e5b90-40d2-4b58-a8fa-74f10c6e470e.png) -->
<!-- ![light](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/66430340/196022796-1215038d-bafb-4450-82b1-7baddd60c0e8.png) -->


<!-- ![ytdownloader_dark](https://github.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader/assets/66430340/62efbca0-28b8-4016-bcf2-1a14bcaa782c) -->
<!-- ![ytdownloader_light](https://github.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader/assets/66430340/34f5270f-bdea-460e-8622-6459cd147b73) -->
![ss_dark](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0e810d71-6e8e-428f-9cca-9af71b5d7c16)

![ss_prefs](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/12097005-b41c-44a3-a579-61b8e990432f)

![ss_compressor](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b366aa8e-a004-4697-873f-965f51752f15)


<!-- ![ytdownloader_dark](https://github.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader/assets/66430340/2f6695e7-6ca0-4f7c-91a0-0ad735c1e3af) -->
<!-- ![ytdownloader_light](https://github.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader/assets/66430340/3c974ab0-8257-4b8a-88ec-ee6bd119751e) -->

# 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](https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/ytdownloader) using the following command
    ```
    choco install ytdownloader
    ```
-   **Scoop**
    App can be installed with [Scoop](https://scoop.sh) using the following command
    ```
    scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader/main/ytdownloader.json
    ```
-   **Winget** (Might be using outdated version)

    App can be installed with [Winget](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli) using the following command
    ```
    winget install aandrew-me.ytDownloader
    ```
## Linux 🐧

Linux has several options available - Flatpak, AppImage, Snap and AUR.
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](https://appimage.org/).

    [AppImageLauncher](https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher) is recommended for integrating AppImages.

-   ### AUR package

    The app is available in [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ytdownloader-gui) with the name `ytdownloader-gui`. To build with pamac the required command is -

    ```
    pamac install ytdownloader-gui
    ```

    Using yay

    ```
    yay -S ytdownloader-gui
    ```

-   ### Flatpak
    ```
    flatpak install flathub io.github.aandrew_me.ytdn
    ```
-   ### Snapcraft
    ```
    sudo snap install ytdownloader
    ```

## macOS 🍎

Since the app is not signed, when you will try to open the app, macOS will not allow you to open it. So you will need to follow some steps to open it.

1. Click on **System Preferences** on your Mac Dock.
2. Choose **Security & Privacy**
3. The app will be shown there. Click on **Open**

On macOs 14.5 Sonoma you need to open terminal and add it by hand:
```
sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/YTDownloader.app 
```

You will also need to have Python 3.8 or greater installed

## 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](https://crwd.in/ytdownloader). Open a new issue and that language will be added to Crowdin. Please don't make pull requests with json files, instead use Crowdin.

[![Crowdin](https://badges.crowdin.net/ytdownloader/localized.svg)](https://crowdin.com/project/ytdownloader)

### ✅ Available languages

| Name                | Status |
| ------------------- | ------ |
| Arabic              | ✔️     |
| English             | ✔️     |
| Simplified Chinese  | ✔️     |
| Finnish             | ✔️     |
| French              | ✔️     |
| German              | ✔️     |
| Greek               | ✔️     |
| Hungarian           | ✔️     |
| Italian             | ✔️     |
| Japanese            | ✔️     |
| Persian             | ✔️     |
| Polish              | ✔️     |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | ✔️     |
| Russian             | ✔️     |
| Spanish             | ✔️     |
| Turkish             | ✔️     |
| Ukrainian           | ✔️     |
| Vietnamese          | ✔️     |

Thanks to [nxjosephofficial](https://github.com/nxjosephofficial), [LINUX-SAUNA](https://t.me/linuxsauna), [Proxycon](https://github.com/proxycon), [albanobattistella](https://github.com/albanobattistella), [TheBlueQuasar](https://github.com/TheBlueQuasar), [MrQuerter](https://github.com/MrQuerter), [KotoWhiskas](https://github.com/KotoWhiskas), [André](https://github.com/andre1828), [haggen88](https://github.com/haggen88), [XfedeX](https://github.com/XfedeX), [Jok3r](https://github.com/th3knv), [TitouanReal](https://github.com/TitouanReal), [soredake](https://github.com/soredake), [yoi](https://github.com/thiennguyenqn), [HowlingWerewolf](https://github.com/HowlingWerewolf), [Kum](https://github.com/kum4423), [Mohammed Bakry](https://crowdin.com/profile/m7md_b4kry), [Huang Bingfeng](https://github.com/jackiotyu) and others for helping.

## Used technologies

-   [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
-   [Electron](https://www.electronjs.org/)
-   [ffmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/)
-   [nodeJS](https://nodejs.org/en/)
-   [flaticon](https://www.flaticon.com/)

## For building or running from source code

[Nodejs](https://nodejs.org/) (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](https://www.electronjs.org/) :

```
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](https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds/releases) for windows/linux and from [here](http://www.osxexperts.net/) 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.

## Donations
You can donate to my Payeer account: **P1129645521**