YoutubeDownloader

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Made in 🇺🇦 Ukraine — despite Russia's best efforts. Using this project or its source code comes with the implicit agreement that you condemn Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, recognize Russia as a terrorist state, and support Ukraine's territorial integrity.

YoutubeDownloader is an application that lets you download videos from YouTube. You can copy-paste the URL of any video, playlist, or channel and download it directly in a format of your choice.

See also:

• 📦 YoutubeExplode — the library that powers this application
• 📖 Reverse-Engineering YouTube — article explaining the inner workings of YouTube

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