yt-dl

WARNING: This project is no longer maintained!
Using it nonetheless is strongly discouraged and will result in nothing but disappointment.
A web version is currently being worked on, though, so that's something...aight?

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easy-to-use YouTube downloader (GUI), created with PyQt5, pytube and beautifulsoup4

Features

• download videos or playlists from YouTube
• mp4, webm, 3gp supported
• extract audio from downloaded video files / convert audio to mp3

To do

• support YouTube adaptive streams (i.e. resolutions >= 1080p)
• convert video to other formats (e.g. mkv, avi)
• bundle ffmpeg or automatically download + install it (needed to combine yt's separate audio / video streams)
• set ID3 tags to files (e.g. title, creator, thumbnail)

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Installation

Windows:

download yt-dl_x.x.x_setup.exe, execute it and follow the instructions

Source:

(extrapolate accordingly for non-Debian distros)

Install dependencies

sudo apt install python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-bs4
sudo pip3 install -U pytube PyQt5 beautifulsoup4

(optional) Fix appearance

on some systems using the distro's PyQt package results in an improved appearance, e.g. on Debian this can be done as follows:

pip3 uninstall PyQt5 sip
sudo apt install python3-pyqt5

Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/FranzPio/yt-dl && cd yt-dl/src

Launch application

python3 main.py