Youtube Downloader

The Open Source Youtube Downloader!

Screenshots:

How the current GUI looks:

Debug commands are outputted to the command line:

Why I made this:

Most online Youtube to MP3 converters are filled with intrusive advertisements and popups, some even contain malware. I made this using the youtube_dl python package to download videos from online.

How you can help:

There are 3 easy steps to contributing to this project:

1. Create a fork of this project
2. Make modifications to the fork
3. Open a pull request in this repository, with your new fork selected

Find this in more detail here

How to install:

This application is able to be used on multiple operating systems, find the installation instructions for your operating system here:

Please note: I've only tested this on Windows 10 and Linux! Other operating systems such as MacOS and FreeBSD should work, but compatibility is not guaranteed

On Windows 7/8.1/10

Youtube Downloader uses a virtual environment so all the packages come pre-installed, the following steps are:

1. Go to releases and download the latest version of Youtube Downloader Found here: https://github.com/daniel071/Youtube_Downloader/releases

2. Extract the zipped folder

3. Open up the BAT file named 'StartGUI.bat' to start the GUI interface for this program. If you only want command-line, you can open 'StartProgram.bat'

4. Input the URL link to the youtube video, any metadata for it and where you'd like to save it (The program will create a file inside the directory you chose)

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On Unix based operating systems (Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD)

Automated installation:

1. Go into your terminal and cd into the git directory

2. Run

source _StartGUI.sh

Note: This command requires root permissions as the command sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt --upgrade requires root permissions!

3. Enjoy!

Manual installation

1. Go into your terminal and cd into the git directory

2. Run the following commands

# Initialises the virtualenv
source /venv/bin/activate

# Installs required dependacies
sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt --upgrade

# Runs the program
python3 "Youtube Downloader GUI.py"

Troubleshooting

Dependency issues

If the python program is failing to start due to packages not being installed try the following:

1. Make sure you are in the virtual environment

On Windows:

Open command promt in the git directory and run
CALL venv\Scripts\activate.bat

On Linux/MacOS/FreeBSD:

Open terminal in the git directory and run
source /venv/bin/activate

2. Install required dependacies For both Windows and Linux/MacOS/FreeBSD, try running this in your terminal/command prompt:

sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt --upgrade

If it still doesn't work, feel free to open up an issue

Contributed by Daniel Pavela