YoutubeDownloader

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YoutubeDownloader is an application that lets you download videos from YouTube. You can copy-paste URL of any video, playlist or channel and download it directly in a format of your choice. It also supports searching by keywords, which is helpful if you want to quickly look up and download videos.

[!NOTE]

This application uses YoutubeExplode under the hood to interact with YouTube.

You can read this article to learn more about how it works.

Terms of use^{[[?]](https://github.com/Tyrrrz/.github/blob/prime/docs/why-so-political.md)}

By using this project or its source code, for any purpose and in any shape or form, you grant your implicit agreement to all the following statements:

• You condemn Russia and its military aggression against Ukraine
• You recognize that Russia is an occupant that unlawfully invaded a sovereign state
• You support Ukraine's territorial integrity, including its claims over temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas
• You reject false narratives perpetuated by Russian state propaganda

To learn more about the war and how you can help, click here. Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦

Download

• 🟢 Stable release
• 🟠 CI build
• 📦 Scoop: scoop install extras/youtubedownloader (community-maintained)
• 📦 AUR: yay -S youtubedownloader (community-maintained)

[!IMPORTANT]

To launch the app on MacOS, you may need to first remove the downloaded file from quarantine.

You can do that by running the following command in the terminal: xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine YoutubeDownloader.app.

[!NOTE]

Community-maintained packages are published independently from this repository and may not always be up to date with the latest release.

[!NOTE]

If you're unsure which build is right for your system, consult with this page to determine your OS and CPU architecture.

Features

• Cross-platform graphical user interface
• Download videos by URL
• Download videos from playlists or channels
• Download videos by search query
• Selectable video quality and format
• Automatically embed audio tracks in alternative languages
• Automatically embed subtitles
• Automatically inject media tags
• Log in with a YouTube account to access private content

Screenshots